Cape Sibbald
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Cape Sibbald is a cliffed cape at the southwest margin of Lady Newnes Bay
on the coast of Victoria Land
. It marks the southwest extremity of the Mountaineer Range
at the terminus of Aviator Glacier
. Sighted in February 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross and named by him for Lieutenant (later Cdr.) John Sibbald of the Erebus.
Lady Newnes Bay
Lady Newnes Bay is a bay about 60 mi long in the western Ross Sea, extending along the coast of Victoria Land from Cape Sibbald to Coulman Island. Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, led by Carstens Borchgrevink. He named it for Lady Newnes, whose husband, Sir George...
on the 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...
. It marks the southwest extremity of the Mountaineer Range
Mountaineer Range
Mountaineer Range is the range of mountains lying between the Mariner and Aviator Glaciers in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The seaward parts of the range were first viewed by Ross in 1841, and subsequently by several British and later American expeditions. The precise mapping of its overall features...
at the terminus of Aviator Glacier
Aviator Glacier
Aviator Glacier is major valley glacier, over 60 miles long and 5 miles wide, descending generally southward from the plateau of Victoria Land along the west side of Mountaineer Range, and entering Lady Newnes Bay between Cape Sibbald and Hayes Head where it forms the Aviator Glacier Tongue...
. Sighted in February 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross and named by him for Lieutenant (later Cdr.) John Sibbald of the Erebus.