Cape Ellsworth () is a sheer rock bluff high forming the north end of

Young Island Young Island () is the northernmost and westernmost of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean. It lies northwest of Buckle Island, some north-northeast of Belousov Point on the Antarctic ma ...

in the

Balleny Islands The Balleny Islands () are a series of uninhabited islands in the Southern Ocean extending from 66°15' to 67°35'S and 162°30' to 165°00'E. The group extends for about in a northwest-southeast direction. The islands are heavily glaciated an ...

. It was named by personnel of the ''Discovery II'' in 1936 for American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth. The vessel, after picking up Ellsworth at Little America on the

Ross Ice Shelf The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...

, made a running survey around the northern end of the Balleny Islands on the way back to Australia.

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Headlands of the Balleny Islands {{subantarctic-geo-stub