Cape Goldie
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Cape Goldie () is a cape at the south side of the mouth of
Robb Glacier Robb Glacier () is a glacier about 40 nautical miles (70 km) long, flowing from Clarkson Peak north along the east side of Softbed Ridges to the Ross Ice Shelf at Cape Goldie. Named by the expedition after Murray Robb, leader of the New Ze ...
, overlooking 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 ...
, Antarctica. It was discovered by the
British National Antarctic Expedition The ''Discovery'' Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–18 ...
(1901–04) and named for Sir George Taubman Goldie, a member of the committee which made the final draft of the instructions for the expedition.


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Headlands of the Ross Dependency Shackleton Coast {{ShackletonCoast-geo-stub