Cape North is a large bluff with much rock exposed along the north and east sides, standing at the west side of Nielsen Fjord

Nielsen Fjord

Nielsen Fjord is a fjord 2 nautical miles wide between Cape North and Gregory Bluffs on the north coast of Victoria Land. Named by ANARE for Captain Hans Nielsen, master of the M.V. Thala Dan used in exploring this coast, 1962....

 on the north coast of 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...

. The top of the bluff is snow covered and rises to about 500 metres (1,640.4 ft). Although it is not the northernmost coastal point in the immediate area, the feature is conspicuous and presumably is the one observed by Captain James Clark 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:...

 in 1841 and given the name Cape North. On the chart by Ross, Cape North is depicted as the northernmost cape observed westward of Cape Hooker

Cape Hooker (Antarctica)

Cape Hooker is a cape on the northeast portion of the cove which includes Davis Ice Piedmont, on the north coast of Victoria Land. With Cape Dayman to the east-southeast, it forms an outer entrance point to Yule Bay...

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