Cape Agassiz
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Cape Agassiz is the east tip of
Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula or Kenyon PeninsulaKenyon Peninsula.
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, a narrow ice-drowned spur extending east from the main mountain axis of the Antarctic Peninsula between
Mobiloil Inlet Mobiloil Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet, nurtured by several northeast and east flowing glaciers, lying between the Rock Pile Peaks and Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by Sir Hubert ...
and Revelle Inlet. The cape is the east end of a line from
Cape Jeremy Cape Jeremy is a cape marking the east side of the north entrance to George VI Sound and the west end of a line dividing Graham Land and Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British Graham Land expedition, 1934–37, under John Riddoc ...
dividing
Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee an ...
and Palmer Land. It was discovered in December 1940 by the
United States Antarctic Service The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...
who named it for W.L.G. Joerg, a geographer and polar specialist. At his request it was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Louis Agassiz, an internationally famous American naturalist and geologist of Swiss origin, who first propounded the theory of continental
glaciation A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances. Interglacials, on the other hand, are periods of warmer climate be ...
(Etudes sur les Glaciers, Neuchatel, 1840). Headlands of Palmer Land Headlands of Graham Land Bowman Coast {{BowmanCoast-geo-stub