Cape Agassiz

Brabazon Point
Brabazon Point
Coordinates: 68°29′S 62°56′W
Location	Graham Land, Palmer Land
Area
• Total	Antarctica

Cape Agassiz is the east tip of Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula, a narrow ice-drowned spur extending east from the main mountain axis of Antarctic Peninsula between Mobiloil Inlet and Revelle Inlet. The cape is the east end of a line from Cape Jeremy dividing Graham Land and Palmer Land. It was discovered in December 1940 by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) who named it for W.L.G. Joerg, a geographer and polar specialist. At his request it was named by the US-SCAN for Louis Agassiz, an internationally famous American naturalist and geologist of Swiss origin, who first propounded the theory of continental glaciation (Etudes sur les Glaciers, Neuchatel, 1840). The latitude is 68 degrees, 28 minutes, south.

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Cape Agassiz". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.