Ellsworthland
Coordinates: 76 ° S , 80 ° W
The Ellsworthland is a region in West Antarctica . It extends from the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula ( Palmerland ) and the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the east to Marie-Byrd-Land in the west, between 103 ° 24 ′ W and 79 ° 45 ′ W. The Ellsworthland runs through to the north the Bellingshausensee limited.
It is an inland ice- covered plateau with an average height of 2000 m, from which the Ellsworth Mountains rise with Mount Vinson , the highest peak in Antarctica . The area was named after his father James W. Ellsworth Land by American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth , who flew over the region in an airplane in 1935 .
Border with the Antarctic Peninsula
Until 2009, the southern boundary of the Antarctic Peninsula was generally a line from Cape Adams (which roughly marks the edge of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf ) to a point on the English coast at 73 ° 24 ′ S , 72 ° 0 ′ W , opposite the Eklund Islands . In 2009 the British redefined the southern border, from the Rydberg Peninsula at 73 ° 0 ′ S , 80 ° 0 ′ W to the grounding line of the Evans Ice Stream at approximately 76 ° 34 ′ S , 75 ° 0 ' W . As a result, the southern border of the Palmerland shifts accordingly, whereby geographical objects between the two southern borders lie in the Palmerland according to the British view, and in the Ellsworthland according to the US - which adheres to the conventional southern border.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ellsworth Land in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed November 3, 2017
- ↑ a b c Antarctic Peninsula (GBR) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on November 3, 2017
- ↑ a b c Antarctic Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed November 3, 2017
- ↑ Palmer Land (GBR) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on November 3, 2017