54°24′39″S3°20′48″E / 54.4109°S 3.3467°E /-54.4109; 3.3467

Cape Circoncision (Norwegian:Kapp Circoncision) is apeninsula on the north-western edge ofsubantarcticBouvet Island. The small peninsula was sighted by the French naval exploration that was led byJean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier on 1 January 1739, theFeast of the Circumcision day—thus the name. The cape provided the location for the base-camp of the 1928–1929 Norwegian expedition.^[1]

• CIA Factbook entry for Bouvet Island Includes a map showing the cape.

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