Bear Peninsula
| Bear Peninsula | ||
 Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Bear Peninsula |
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| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 35 ′ S , 111 ° 0 ′ W | |
| location | Walgreen Coast , Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Waters 1 | Amundsen Sea , Southern Ocean | |
| length | 80 km | |
| width | 40 km | |
The Bear Peninsula is, apart from a few peripheral rocky outcrops and cliffs, an ice-covered peninsula 80 km long and 40 km wide on the Walgreen coast of Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It is located 50 km east of the Martin Peninsula .
A first position determination of the peninsula was based on aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947) from January 1947. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the USS Bear , the flagship of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941), which previously under the name Bear of Oakland in the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd was used.
Web links
- Bear Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bear Peninsula on geographic.org (English)