Cape Spieden

Cape Spieden is a cape along the western shore of Porpoise Bay, about 17 nautical miles southeast of . Delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, and named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after William Spieden, Purser on the sloop Peacock during the United States Exploring Expedition under Lieutenant Charles Wilkes.
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  • Type: Cape
  • Description: Cape on the coast of Antarctica
  • Also known as: Spieden, Cape

Cape Spieden

Latitude
-66.41667° or 66° 25′ south
Longitude
126.75° or 126° 45′ east
Open location code
3Q58HQM2+82
Geo­Names ID
6625851
Wiki­data ID
Q2605178
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cape Spieden” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: Spieden
  • Chinese: 斯皮登角
  • German: Kap Spieden
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Cape Spieden
  • Swedish: Spieden

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cape Spieden”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.