Cape Kinnes

Cape Kinnes is the western headland of Joinville Island, an island off the Trinity Peninsula at Graham Land's north-eastern tip, within the British Antarctic Territory.

The headland was charted by the Dundee Whaling Expedition in January 1893 and named after Robert Kinnes, the Dundee shipowner and merchant who equipped the whaling ships of the expedition for their Antarctic voyage of 1892-93: the Active (from which Active Sound is named), Balæna (giving a name to the Balæna Valley), Diana (whose name is found in the Diana Reef) and Polar Star.

The cape was recharted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Trepassey Island in January 1947. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Hope Bay in 1953-54.

See also

• Kinnes Cove

Location

• Location map: 56°33’31"S, 63°22’15"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Cape Kinnes