Cape McCormick
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Cape McCormick is a cape marking the east extremity of Adare Peninsula
in Victoria Land
. Discovered by Captain James Ross
, 1841, who named it for Robert McCormick
, Surgeon on the Erebus.
Adare Peninsula
Adare Peninsula , sometimes called Cape Adare Peninsula, is a high ice-covered peninsula, long, in the northeast part of Victoria Land, extending south from Cape Adare to Cape Roget. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Cape Adare....
in Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. Discovered by Captain James Ross
James Clark Ross
Sir James Clark Ross , was a British naval officer and explorer. He explored the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry, and later led his own expedition to Antarctica.-Arctic explorer:...
, 1841, who named it for Robert McCormick
Robert McCormick
Robert McCormick is the name of:* Robert R. McCormick , American publisher of the Chicago Tribune* Robert McCormick , naturalist with the British Royal Navy...
, Surgeon on the Erebus.