Cape Evans

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Cape Evans is a rocky headland on Ross Island in Antarctica, best known as the site of Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition hut.

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Label Occurrences
Cape Evans canonical 3
Scott’s Hut at Cape Evans 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cape
geographic feature
headland
climate polar climate
countryClaimedBy New Zealand
distanceTo approximately 13 km from Cape Royds
approximately 22 km from McMurdo Station
governedBy Antarctic Treaty System
hasAccessMode access by sea ice or helicopter
hasBuildingMaterial volcanic rock
hasConservationManagementBy New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust
hasEcosystem Antarctic coastal ecosystem
hasHistoricPeriod Heroic Age of Antarctic and Arctic Exploration
surface form: Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
hasHistoricSite Scott’s Hut
hasLatitude -77.638
hasLegalStatus demilitarized under Antarctic Treaty
hasLongitude 166.404
hasNearbyFeature Cape Royds
McMurdo Sound
Mount Erebus
hasPrimaryLanguageOfVisitors English
hasSeaIce seasonal sea ice in McMurdo Sound
hasStructure Scott’s Terra Nova expedition hut
hasTerrain rocky headland
hasTimeZone New Zealand Standard Time
surface form: New Zealand Standard Time (operational use)
locatedIn Antarctica
Ross Dependency
Ross Island
namedAfter Edward Bransfield
surface form: Edward Evans
namedBy Robert Falcon Scott
onCoastOf Ross Sea
partOf Ross Archipelago
protectedAs Historic Site or Monument (HSM 16)
usedBy Edward Bransfield
surface form: Edward Evans

Robert Falcon Scott
members of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910–1913
visitedFor polar history tourism
scientific research
wasBaseFor British Antarctic Expedition
surface form: British Antarctic Expedition 1910–1913

British Antarctic Expedition
surface form: Terra Nova Expedition

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Ross Dependency (New Zealand Antarctic territory) contains Cape Evans
subject surface form: Ross Dependency
Ross Dependency (New Zealand Antarctic territory) contains Cape Evans
subject surface form: Ross Dependency
this entity surface form: Scott’s Hut at Cape Evans
Ross Island hasHistoricHut Cape Evans
this entity surface form: Scott’s Hut at Cape Evans
Ross Island hasCape Cape Evans