Felipe Solo Peninsula
| Felipe Solo Peninsula | ||
| Geographical location | ||
|
||
| Coordinates | 65 ° 50 ′ S , 64 ° 35 ′ W | |
| location | Graham Coast ( Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula ) | |
| Waters 1 | Barilari Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Bigo Bay | |
| length | 19.8 km | |
| width | 13.5 km | |
The Felipe Solo Peninsula ( Spanish Península Felipe Solo , in Argentina Península Obligado ) is a 19.8 km long, 13.5 km wide and heavily glaciated peninsula on the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, facing southeast-northwest . It separates Barilari Bay in the southwest from Bigo Bay in the northeast and ends in Cape García . The Grandidier Channel separates them from the Biscoe Islands in the northwest .
British scientists mapped it in 1971. Chilean named it after the Chilean cartographer Felipe Solo de Zaldívar , who carried out the first hydrographic survey of the Río Bueno in Chile in December 1834 . The background of the Argentine naming is not known.
Web links
- Felipe Solo, Península in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)