Cape Adare

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Cape Adare is a prominent ice-free headland in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, notable as the site of the first documented landing on the Antarctic mainland and an important Adélie penguin rookery.

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Cape Adare canonical 5
Cape Adare huts 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geographic feature
headland
historic site
associatedWith British Antarctic exploration
Carsten Borchgrevink
Southern Cross Expedition
conservationFocus preservation of historic huts
protection of Adélie penguin colony
coordinateSystem geographic coordinates
country Antarctica
discoveredBy James Clark Ross
discoveryExpedition Ross expedition
discoveryYear 1841
formsBoundaryOf western entrance to the Ross Sea
governedBy Antarctic Treaty System
hasAccessibility accessible mainly by ship in summer
hasCharacteristic ice-free
hasClimate polar climate
hasEcosystem Adélie penguin rookery
hasFeature narrow coastal platform
steep cliffs
hasHistoricSite Borchgrevink huts
Borchgrevink huts
surface form: Carsten Borchgrevink’s wintering camp
hasLegalStatus no sovereign ownership under Antarctic Treaty
hasProtectionStatus Antarctic Specially Protected Area
Historic Site or Monument under the Antarctic Treaty System
hasSeasonalCondition sea ice present much of the year
hasTerrain rocky headland
hasWildlife Adélie penguin
seabirds
isInHemisphere Southern Hemisphere
isInOceanRegion Southern Ocean
isNotableFor first documented landing on the Antarctic mainland
large Adélie penguin colony
isPartOf Borchgrevink Coast
locatedIn Antarctica
Victoria Land
northern Victoria Land
namedAfter Viscount Adare
namedBy James Clark Ross
overlooks Ross Sea
usedFor early Antarctic scientific observations
penguin population studies
wasSiteOf Southern Cross Expedition winter quarters

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ross Sea hasPart Cape Adare
Ross Dependency (New Zealand Antarctic territory) contains Cape Adare
subject surface form: Ross Dependency
Ross Dependency (New Zealand Antarctic territory) contains Cape Adare
subject surface form: Ross Dependency
this entity surface form: Cape Adare huts
Scott Coast hasNearbyFeature Cape Adare
Cape Hallett near Cape Adare