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Cape Agassiz
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Cape Agassiz
Cape Agassiz
is the east tip of
Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula
, a narrow ice-drowned spur extending east from the main mountain axis of
Antarctic Peninsula
between
Mobiloil Inlet
and
Revelle Inlet
. The cape is the east end of a line from
Cape Jeremy
dividing
Graham Land
and
Palmer Land
. It was discovered in December 1940 by the
United States Antarctic Service
(USAS) who named it for
W.L.G. Joerg
, a geographer and polar specialist. At his request it was named by the US-SCAN for
Louis Agassiz
, an internationally famous American naturalist and geologist of Swiss origin, who first propounded the theory of continental
glaciation
(Etudes sur les Glaciers, Neuchatel, 1840).
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