Vestkapp, Cape
Cape Vestkapp is a prominent westward projection of the ice front of the Antarctic continent's Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf, located midway along the ice front and about 60 nautical miles west of the Kraul Mountains, in the region of Queen Maud Land.- Type: Cape
- Description: peninsula on the Princess Martha Coast of Antarctica
- Also known as: “Cape Vestkapp” and “Vestkapp”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Drescher Ice Camp.
Drescher Ice Camp
Locality
Drescher Ice Camp can refer to a decommissioned permanent research station in the Drescher Inlet on the Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf as well as any subsequent mobile research stations located at the same site. Drescher Ice Camp is situated 9 km south of Vestkapp, Cape.
Vestkapp, Cape
- Categories: headland, peninsula, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Vestkapp, Cape” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Vestkapp”
- Chinese: “韋斯特卡普角”
- Dutch: “Vestkapp”
- German: “Vestkapp”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestkapp”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestkapp i Antarktis”
- Swedish: “Vestkapp”
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