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Cape Selborne
Cape
Selborne
is a high snow-covered
cape
at the
south side
of
Barne Inlet
, the terminus of
Byrd Glacier
at the
west side
of the
Ross Ice Shelf
.
Discovered
by the
Discovery
expedition
and named for
William Waldegrave Palmer Selborne
, Second
Earl of Selborne
, who
entered
the Cabinet
as
First Lord of the Admiralty
in
1900
. Cape Selborne
marks
the boundary between the
Shackleton Coast
to
the south
and the
Hillary Coast
to
the north
.