Cape Sobral () is a high, mainly snow-covered elevation which surmounts the south end of
Sobral Peninsula
The Sobral Peninsula () is a high and mainly ice-covered peninsula in northern Graham Land, Antarctica.
The feature is long and wide and projects southward into the northern part of the Larsen Ice Shelf west of Larsen Inlet.
Location
The Sob ...
on the east coast of
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee an ...
in
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
. It forms the east side of the entrance to
Mundraga Bay
Mundraga Bay ( bg, залив Мундрага, zaliv Mundraga, ) is the 28.6 km wide bay indenting for 23 km Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is entered east of Fothergill Point and west of Cape Sobral. Local coastli ...
and west side of the entrance to
Larsen Inlet Larsen Inlet is an inlet, long in a north–south direction and wide, between Cape Longing and Cape Sobral along the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Carl Anton Larsen, a Norwegian whaling captain, reported a large bay in this area in 1893, ...
. Discovered by the
Swedish Antarctic Expedition
The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1903 was a scientific expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. It was the first Swedish endeavour to Antarctica in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Background
Otto Nordensk ...
, 1901–04, under Nordenskjold, who named it for Lieutenant
Jose M. Sobral of the
Argentine Navy, asst. physicist and meteorologist with the expedition.
External links
Cape Sobral.Copernix satellite image
Headlands of Graham Land
Nordenskjöld Coast
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