Frances, Cape
Cape Frances is a cape on the east side of Sturge Island in the Balleny Islands. In 1841, Captain James C. Ross, viewing Sturge Island from a considerable distance, thought it a group of three islands and named the center island Frances.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Cape Frances”, “Frances”, and “Frances Island”
Frances, Cape
- Categories: headland, peninsula, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-67.43333° or 67° 26′ southLongitude
164.90833° or 164° 54′ 30″ eastOpen location code
3V46HW85+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 11047902643OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
6633419Wikidata ID
Q794736
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Frances, Cape” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Frances”
- Chinese: “弗朗西斯角”
- Dutch: “Frances”
- German: “Kap Frances”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape Frances”
- Swedish: “Cape Frances”
- Swedish: “Frances”
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