Cape Margerie () is a low, ice-covered cape in Antarctica, marked by prominent rock outcrops at its northern end, lying midway between
Cape Mousse
Cape Mousse () is a small rocky cape, fringed by many small islands and backed by moraine close to the south, protruding through the coastal icecap southwest of Cape Decouverte. Photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–4 ...
and
Lacroix Nunatak and bounded on the north by numerous rocky islands. It was charted by the
Australasian Antarctic Expedition
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson that explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south of Australia. Mawson had been inspired to lead his own venture by his experiences on Ernest ...
under
Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader durin ...
, 1911–14, who named this feature for
Emmanuel de Margerie
Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie ForMemRS (11 November 1862 – 20 December 1953) was a French geographer after whom the Margerie Glacier was named, which he visited in 1913.
Awards and honours
Margerie was awarded the Cullum Geog ...
, a French geographer and geologist.
[ Bleue Cove lies immediately east.
Cape Margerie served as the main base site for ]French Antarctic Expedition
The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica.
First expedition
In 1772, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec and the naturalist Jean Guillaume Bruguière sailed to the Antarctic region in search of the fable ...
parties under André-Frank Liotard, in 1950–51, and Michel Barré, in 1951–52, until fire destroyed the main buildings of their base, known as Port Martin
Port Martin, or Port-Martin, is an abandoned French research base at Cape Margerie on the coast of Adélie Land, Antarctica, as well as the name of the adjacent anchorage.
History
The site was discovered in 1950 by the French Antarctic Expedition ...
, in January 1952.[
]
See also
*Cézembre Point
Cézembre Point () is a rocky point northeast of Cape Margerie. It was charted in 1950 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named for Cézembre
Cézembre is an island in Brittany, in the Ille-et-Vilaine ''département'' of France, near Saint- ...
References
Headlands of Adélie Land
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