Cape Monaco

Cape Monaco is a cape which forms the south-west tip of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory, and the entrance point of Wylie Bay on the island's coast.

The Gossler Islands and Chukovezer Island lie respectively two miles west and four and a half miles north of the cape.

Cape Monaco was discovered and roughly charted by the German Antarctic Expedition of 1873–74, under Eduard Dallmann, but its relationship to Anvers Island was not known at that time. It was later charted by the Third French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named by him Cap Albert de Monaco after HSH Prince Albert I of Monaco (1848-1922), a patron of the expedition and of the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, who supported the oceanographic programmes and was the founder of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco (1910) and of the Oceanographic Institute in Paris (1911).

The cape was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Arthur Harbour", 1956-57.

Location

• Location map: 64°43’2"S, 64°16’42"W

See also

• Stayaway Skerries

References

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