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Cuff Cape () is a dark rock headland emerging from the icy coast of
Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. I ...
, immediately south of Mackay Glacier. It was mapped by the
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13 The ''Terra Nova'' Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition had various scientific and geographical objec ...
, and so named because the dark rock resembles a hand extending from a snowy cuff.


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* Headlands of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub