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Cape Monaco

Cape Monaco

Cape Monaco (64°43′S64°18′W / 64.717°S 64.300°W / -64.717; -64.300) is a cape which forms the southwest tip of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Gossler Islands and Chukovezer Island are lying respectively 3 km west and 7.2 km north of the cape.

Cape Monaco was discovered by a German expedition in 1873–1874, under Eduard Dallmann, but its relationship to Anvers Island was not known at that time. It was later charted by the , 1903–1905, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named by him for Albert I, Prince of Monaco, a patron of the expedition.