Cape Moore
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Cape Moore is a cape at the east end of Tapsell Foreland
which forms the north side of the entrance to Smith Inlet
, on the north coast of Victoria Land
. Discovered by Captain James C. Ross, 1841, who named it for Thomas E.L. Moore, mate on the Terror.
Tapsell Foreland
Tapsell Foreland is a broad, mostly snow-covered foreland jutting into the sea between Yule Bay and Smith Inlet, northern Victoria Land. Much of the central portion of this feature rises above 800 m The name Tapsell, applied by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1969, is the surname...
which forms the north side of the entrance to Smith Inlet
Smith Inlet (Victoria Land)
Smith Inlet is a bay, wide, partially filled with the ice tongue of Barnett Glacier. It is located between Cape Moore and Cape Oakeley along the coast of northern Victoria Land, and was discovered by Captain James C. Ross, 1841, who named it for Alexander J. Smith, mate on the Erebus....
, on the north coast of Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. Discovered by Captain James C. Ross, 1841, who named it for Thomas E.L. Moore, mate on the Terror.