Cadwalader Beach
Cadwalader Beach is a beach nearly 1 mile long at the south end of Beaufort Island, in the Ross Archipelago in McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. The beach is occupied by a large Adélie penguin rookery and there is easy access from the sea when the coast is ice free.Places of Interest
Highlights include Paton Peak.
Paton Peak
Peak
Photo: Tsy1980, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Paton Peak is the highest point, at 740 m, on Beaufort Island, in the Ross Archipelago. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition for James Paton, a seaman who made at least six voyages to the Ross Sea area.
Cadwalader Beach
- Type: Beach
- Description: beach in New Zealand
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-76.96452° or 76° 57′ 52″ southLongitude
166.89725° or 166° 53′ 50″ eastElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Named after
Captain John CadwaladerOpen location code
2VM82VPW+5WOpenStreetMap ID
node 11661677606OpenStreetMap feature
natural=beachGeoNames ID
6630681Wikidata ID
Q2913017
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cadwalader Beach” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cadwalader Beach”
- German: “Cadwalader Beach”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cadwalader Beach”
- Swedish: “Cadwalader Beach”
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