Cape Colbeck is a prominent ice-covered cape which forms the northwestern extremity of the Edward VII Peninsula and Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica. It was discovered in January 1902 by the British National Antarctic Expedition and named for Captain William Colbeck, Royal Naval Reserve, who commanded Robert Scott's relief ship, the Morning.
Cape Colbeck
Location of Cape Colbeck in Antarctica
Important Bird Area
editA 351 ha site on fast ice near the eastern coast of the cape has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a colony of about 11,000 emperor penguins (as estimated from 2009 satellite imagery).[1]
Further reading
edit- Bruce P. Luyendyk Christopher C. Sorlien Douglas S. Wilson Louis R. Bartek Christine S. Siddoway, Structural and tectonic evolution of the Ross Sea rift in the Cape Colbeck region, Eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica, doi.org/10.1029/2000TC001260
References
edit- ^ "Cape Colbeck". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
External links
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This article incorporates public domain material from "Colbeck, Cape". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
77°7′S 158°1′W / 77.117°S 158.017°W
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