Cape Penck

antarctic cape between Kaiser Wilhelm II Land and Princess Elizabeth Land

Cape Penck is an ice-covered point on the coast of Antarctica.[1] Cape Penck is just east of Philippi Glacier.[1] It separates the Leopold and Astrid Coast from the Kaiser Wilhelm II Coast.[2] It was named for Albrecht Penck, who was a German geographer.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ute Christina Herzfeld, Atlas of Antarctica: Topographic Maps from Geostatistical Analysis of Satellite Radar Altimeter Data (Berlin; London: Springer, 2004), p. 89
  2. John Stewart, Antarctica: an encyclopedia, Volume 3 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990), p. 757