Cape Circoncision ( Norwegian: Kapp Circoncision) is a

peninsula A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is only connected to land on one side. Peninsulas exist on each continent. The largest peninsula in the world is the Arabian Peninsula. Etymology The word ''peninsula'' derives , . T ...

on the north-western edge of

subantarctic The sub-Antarctic zone is a physiographic region in the Southern Hemisphere, located immediately north of the Antarctic region. This translates roughly to a latitude of between 46th parallel south, 46° and 60th parallel south, 60° south of t ...

Bouvet Island Bouvet Island ( ; ) is an uninhabited subantarctic volcanic island and dependency of Norway. It is a protected nature reserve, and situated in the South Atlantic Ocean at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, it is the world's most extre ...

. The small peninsula was sighted by the French naval exploration that was led by

Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (14 January 1705 – 1786) was a French explorer and colonial administrator of the Mascarene Islands to the east of Madagascar. He was orphaned at the age of seven and after being educated in Paris, he w ...

on 1 January 1739, the

Feast of the Circumcision The Feast of the Circumcision of Christ is a Christian celebration of the circumcision of Jesus in accordance with Jewish tradition, eight days (according to the Semitic and southern European calculation of intervals of days) after his birth, th ...

day—thus the name. The cape provided the location for the base-camp of the 1928–1929 Norwegian expedition.

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External links

CIA Factbook entry for Bouvet Island
Includes a map showing the cape. Headlands of Bouvet Island Subantarctic peninsulas {{BouvetIsland-geo-stub