Bjerkø Peninsula
| Bjerkø Peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 69 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters 1 | Cooperation lake | |
| Waters 2 | MacKenzie Bay | |
The Bjerkø Peninsula is a sprawling peninsula on the Lars Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It forms the western edge of MacKenzie Bay .
Norwegian whalers explored the area around the peninsula between January and February 1931. They named the cape at the end of the peninsula as Bjerkøodden after Reidar Bjerkø, crew member of the whaling ship Bouvet II , from whose deck the coast was sketched on January 19, 1931. Since the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson had already sighted the Cape from a great distance around December 26, 1929, its name as Cape Darnley was retained and the Norwegian name was transferred to the peninsula.
Web links
- Bjerkø Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bjerkø Peninsula on geographic.org (English)