Adare Peninsula
| Adare Peninsula | ||
 Topographic map of the Adare Peninsula |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 40 ′ S , 170 ° 30 ′ E | |
| Waters 1 | Somow lake | |
| Waters 2 | Ross Sea | |
| length | 64 km | |
The Adare Peninsula is an icy and almost 80 km long peninsula in the northeast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land, towering up to 2083 m . It lies between the Somow Sea to the west and the Ross Sea in the east. It extends from Cape Roget in the south to Cape Adare on the northern tip of the peninsula. Robertson Bay is on its western flank .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them based on the name of the cape of the same name after Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1812–1871), former Viscount Adare, a friend of polar explorer James Clark Ross .
The peninsula consists of several overlapping shield volcanoes , the last eruptions of which are dated to the Pleistocene .
literature
- Warren B. Hamilton : The Hallett Volcanic Province, Antarctica (= Geological Survey Professional Paper 456-C ). United States Geological Survey (USGS), 1972 (English, online [PDF; 23.9 MB ]).
Web links
- Adare Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Adare Peninsula on geographic.org (English)
- Adare Peninsula in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)