Coughtrey Peninsula
| Coughtrey Peninsula | ||
 The Argentine Almirante Brown Station on the hook-shaped Coughtrey Peninsula |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 54 '0 " S , 62 ° 52' 7" W | |
| location | Danco Coast , Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Waters 1 | Paradise Harbor | |
| Waters 2 | Skontorp Cove | |
| Waters 3 | Porphyry Cove | |
The Coughtrey Peninsula ( Spanish Península Sanavirón ) is a small, hook-shaped peninsula at the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located on the north side of the entrance to Skontorp Cove , a side bay of Paradise Harbor .
The Scottish geologist David Ferguson (1857-1936) made an initial mapping between 1913 and 1914. Ferguson mistakenly named it Coughtrey Island . It is named after the New Zealand physician Millen Coughtrey (1848–1908) from Dunedin, who came from Scotland . The peninsula has been the location of the Argentine Almirante Brown station since 1950 . The Spanish name of the peninsula is derived from the research vessel Sanavirón , which was used on seven Argentine expeditions to the Antarctic between 1948 and 1957.
Web links
- Coughtrey Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Coughtrey Peninsula on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 362 (English).