Penck, Cape
Cape Penck is an ice-covered point fronting on the West Ice Shelf about 35 miles west-northwest of Gaussberg, separating the Leopold and Astrid Coast from the Wilhelm II Coast.- Type: Cape
- Description: antarctic cape between Kaiser Wilhelm II Land and Princess Elizabeth Land
- Also known as: “Cape Penck”
Penck, Cape
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-66.7° or 66° 42′ south
Longitude
87.71667° or 87° 43′ east
Open location code
3M597PX8+XM
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Penck, Cape” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Cap Penck”
- Cebuano: “Penck”
- Chinese: “彭克角”
- German: “Kap Penck”
- Hebrew: “כף פנק”
- Latvian: “Penka rags”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape Penck”
- Polish: “Przylądek Pencka”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Penck”
- Romanian: “Capul Penck”
- Spanish: “Cabo Penck”
- Swedish: “Penck”
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