Cape Johnson is an ice-covered
cape in northern
Wood Bay Wood Bay is a large bay which is bounded by Cape Johnson and Aviator Glacier Tongue on the north, and Cape Washington on the south, along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross
Sir James ...
at the east side of the terminus of
Tinker Glacier
The Tinker Glacier is a 40 kilometre (25 mile) long glacier in Antarctica, draining the central part of the Southern Cross Mountains and flowing SE into Wood Bay, on the coast of Victoria Land. Named by the Northern Party of the New Zealand Geol ...
, on the coast of
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...
, Antarctica. It was discovered in 1841 by Captain
James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, who named it for Captain
Edward John Johnson.
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References
Headlands of Victoria Land
Borchgrevink Coast
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