Cape Crozier

Cape Crozier is located in Antarctica
Cape Crozier
Cape Crozier
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Location of Cape Crozier
Antarctica
Cape Crozier is the most easterly point of Ross Island, Antarctica

Cape Crozier (77°31′S 169°24′E / 77.517°S 169.400°E / -77.517; 169.400) is the most easterly point of Ross Island in Antarctica. It was discovered in 1841 during James Clark Ross's polar expedition of 1839 to 1843 with HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was named after Commander Francis Crozier, captain of HMS Terror, one of the two ships of Ross' expedition.[1]

The extinct volcano Mount Terror, also named during the Ross expedition, rises sharply from the Cape to a height of 3,230 m (10,600 ft),[2] and the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf (formerly known as the Barrier or Great Ice Barrier) stretches away to its east.

  1. ^ Alberts 1995, p. 164.
  2. ^ Edward Wilson's Discovery diary: Map p290 estimates height @ 10,775 ft