Cape Nuñez

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Cape Nuñez (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) is a headland forming the southwest extremity of Nuñez Peninsula on the south coast of South Georgia. The name dates back to at least 1912 and was probably given by whalers who frequented this coast.

Nuñez Peninsula (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) is a rocky and comparatively snow-free peninsula, Script error: No such module "convert". long, lying between Queen Maud Bay and Jossac Bight on the south coast of South Georgia. The feature was known to early whalers and sealers on South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–1957, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in association with Cape Nuñez, the southwest extremity of the peninsula.

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