Crozier, Cape (Antarctica)

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• Work cat.: Emperors of Antarctica [videorecording], c1992(story of emperor penguins at Cape Crozier, the species' southernmost breeding spot)
• Gazetteer of the Antarctic, 1989(Crozier, Cape, 77⁰31ʹS, 169⁰24ʹE)
• Geographic names of the Antarctic, 1981:p. 187 (Cape which forms the E. extremity of Ross Island)
• Lippincott.
• LC database, May 5, 1995.
• PREMARC, May 9, 1995.

Cape Crozier (77°31′S 169°24′E) 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. 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), and the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf (formerly known as the Barrier or Great Ice Barrier) stretches away to its east.