Condor Peninsula
Peninsula located in Antarctica
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::summary Peninsula located in Antarctica ::
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| Field | Value |
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| name | Condor Peninsula |
| map | Antarctica |
| map_caption | Location in Antarctica |
| location | Palmer Land, Antarctica |
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| name = Condor Peninsula | image_name = | image_caption = | map = Antarctica | map_caption = Location in Antarctica | nickname = | location = Palmer Land, Antarctica | coordinates = | area_km2 = | length_km = | width_km = | highest_mount = | elevation_m = Condor Peninsula () is a mountainous, ice-covered peninsula, 30 nmi long and 10 to wide, between Odom Inlet and Hilton Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica.
Location
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The Condor Peninsula is on the Black Coast of Palmer Land, beside the Weddell Sea to the east. It is north of Hilton Inlet and south of Odom Inlet. To the southwest it is bounded by Kellogg Glacier, a left tributary of Gruening Glacier, which flows into Hilton Inlet. On the north it is bounded by Rankin Glacier, which joins Cline Glacier from the right and flows into Odom Inlet. Features, from west to east, include Boyer Spur, Angle Peak, Mount Showers, Cape MacDonald, Cadle Monolith and Cape Knowles. Features to the northwest include Kamenev Nunatak, Mount Whiting, the Schirmacher Massif and Mount Geier.
Discovery and name
The Condor Peninsula was first observed and photographed from the air in the course of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) "Condor" flight of December 30, 1940 from the East Base with Black, Snow, Perce, Carroll and Dyer aboard. It was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after the twin-motored Curtiss-Wright Condor biplane in which personnel of USAS, 1939–41, made numerous photographic flights and flights of discovery over the Antarctic Peninsula, George VI Sound, Alexander Island, Charcot Island and the Bellingshausen Sea between latitudes 67°30′S and 74°0′S. The peninsula was mapped in detail by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1974.
Features
Angle Peak
Mount Showers
Cadle Monolith
Cape Hattersley-Smith
It was named by US-ACAN in 1984 after Geoffrey Francis Hattersley-Smith, with British Antarctic Survey (BAS) from 1973 (Secretary, UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), 1975-91); FIDS Base Leader and glaciologist, Admiralty Bay, 1948-49; with Defense Research Board, Canada, 1951-73 (field research in the Arctic); author of The History of Place-names in the Falkland Islands Dependencies (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands), Cambridge, 1980, and The History of Place-names in the British Antarctic Territory, Cambridge, 1991.
Northwest features
Kamenev Nunatak
Mount Whiting
Schirmacher Massif
Mount Geier
Waitt Peaks
References
Sources
- {{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-03 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G. |publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names |year=1995}}
- {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palmer_Land_North_USGS_Sketch.jpg |accessdate=2024-04-25 |title=Palmer Land |publisher=USGS: United States Geological Survey |ref= }}
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