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Cape Fairweather is a cape in Antarctica that is 705 metres (2,310 ft) high and is ice-covered except for rocky exposures along its southeast and east sides. It lies midway between Drygalski Glacier and Evans Glacier on the east coast of Graham Land and divides Nordenskjöld Coast from Oscar II Coast. Rogosh Glacier branches at the ridge forming Cape Fairweather and flows into Artanes Bay to the south, and into Weddell Sea west of Pedersen Nunatak to the east. The cape was charted in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, which named it for Alexander Fairweather, captain of the Dundee whaler Balaena, which operated along the northeast coast of the Antarctic Peninsula in 1892–1893.[1]

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Fairweather, Cape". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)

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[de] Kap Fairweather

Kap Fairweather (in Argentinien auch Cabo Buen Tiempo, spanisch für Gutes-Wetter-Kap) ist ein 705 m hohes und vereistes Kap mit einigen blanken Felsvorsprüngen entlang der Südost- und Ostseite, das auf halbem Weg zwischen dem Drygalski-Gletscher und dem Evans-Gletscher an der Ostküste des antarktischen Grahamlands liegt. Es markiert die nördliche Grenze der Oskar-II.-Küste. Dem Kap vorgelagert liegen die Robbeninseln.

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- [en] Cape Fairweather

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