Cape Betbeder is a cape which marks the southwest end of
Andersson Island
Andersson Island is a long and wide volcanic island of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group, located at the eastern end of the Tabarin Peninsula, Antarctica.
The island was originally named Uruguay Island by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1 ...
, lying in
Antarctic Sound
The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about long and from wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula. The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld for the e ...
off the northeast tip of
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...
. Charted by the
Swedish Antarctic Expedition on the ''
Antarctic
The Antarctic ( or , American English also or ; commonly ) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau and other ...
'', 1901–04, under
Otto Nordenskjöld, and named by him for R. Admiral
Onofre Betbeder
Onofre Betbeder (1862 – 24 January 1915) was an Argentine vice-admiral who had been twice-appointed Minister of the Navy. The Betbeder Islands are named for him.
Betbeder was born in Argentina and entered the military as a midshipman. As Minist ...
,
Argentine Minister of Marine, upon whose orders the Argentine ship ''
Uruguay'' was dispatched to rescue Nordenskjold's expedition.
Headlands of the Joinville Island group
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