Polar Sea, Cape
Cape Polar Sea is a rock cape that forms the west extremity of Coulman Island in northwest Ross Sea. Named in 1998 by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after USCGC Polar Sea, an icebreaker in support of United States Antarctic Program activities in the Ross, Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas, and other Antarctic coastal areas during 11 seasons, 1980–1997.- Cape
- …lies at an elevation of around 40 metres (140 feet)
- …is also known as “Cape Polar Sea”
- Description: Cape at the South Pole
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-73.53381° or 73° 32′ 2″ south
Longitude
169.46319° or 169° 27′ 48″ east
Open location code
2VRFFF87+F7
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Polar Sea, Cape” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Polar Sea Cape”
- Chinese: “極地海洋角”
- Dutch: “Polar Sea Cape”
- German: “Kap Polar Sea”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape Polar Sea”
- Swedish: “Polar Sea Cape”
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