Cape Roget
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Cape Roget is a steep rock cape at the south tip of Adare Peninsula
, marking the north side of the entrance to Moubray Bay
along the east coast of Victoria Land
. Discovered by Captain James Ross
, 1841, who named it for Peter Mark Roget, noted English lexicographer who was Secretary of the Royal Society
. The cape is the site of an Emperor penguin rookery.
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....
, marking the north side of the entrance to Moubray Bay
Moubray Bay
Moubray Bay is a bay in western Ross Sea, indenting the coast of Victoria Land between Cape Roget and Hallett. Discovered in 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross and named by him for George H. Moubray, clerk in charge of the expedition ship Terror....
along the east 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...
. 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 Peter Mark Roget, noted English lexicographer who was Secretary of the Royal Society
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
. The cape is the site of an Emperor penguin rookery.