Eielson Peninsula
| Eielson Peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 35 ′ S , 61 ° 55 ′ W | |
| location | Black and Wilkins Coast , Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Waters 1 | Smith Inlet | |
| Waters 2 | Lehrke Inlet | |
| length | 35 km | |
| width | 16 km | |
The Eielson Peninsula is a roughly 35 km long, 16 km wide, rugged and mostly snow-covered peninsula on the east coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It separates Smith Inlet in the north from Lehrke Inlet in the south. The Cape Boggs as its eastern foothills forms the boundary mark between the north lying Wilkins Coast and the Black Coast in the south.
The rocky north face of the peninsula was probably sighted by the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins during his flight over the area on December 20, 1928 and named as Cape Eielson after Wilkins' pilot Carl Ben Eielson (1897-1929). After aerial photographs taken by scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) in 1940, the name was finally transferred to the entire peninsula.
Web links
- Eielson Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eielson Peninsula on geographic.org (English)