Cape Robinson

Cape Robinson () is a cape marking the east end of Cole Peninsula, between

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and Mill Inlets on Foyn Coast,

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 a ...

. Sir

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, while on his flight of December 20, 1928 along this coast, named an island for

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and Australia, which he reported to lie in about . Absence of photographs of this island by Wilkins has prevented its positive reidentification. For this reason, and for the sake of historical continuity, it is recommended that the east end of the

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here described be given the name Cape Robinson. This cape was charted by the

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(FIDS) and photographed from the air by the

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Background Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored ex ...

(RARE) in 1947. Headlands of Graham Land Foyn Coast {{FoynCoast-geo-stub