Flat top peninsula
| Flat top peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 12 '32 " S , 59 ° 1' 34" W | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters 1 | Geographers Cove | |
| Waters 2 | Horatio Bay | |
The Flat Top Peninsula (English for Flachgipfelige Peninsula , Spanish Península Morro Chato ) is a small peninsula at the southwestern end of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located on the west coast of the Fildes Peninsula , between Geographers Cove in the south and Horatio Bay in the northeast.
The peninsula was given its descriptive name by scientists from the British Discovery Investigations , who carried out surveys here in 1935.
Web links
- Flat Top Peninsula on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flat Top Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed September 25, 2017
- ^ Dietrich Barsch, Wolf-Dieter Blümel, Wolfgang-Albert Flügel, Roland Mäusbacher, Gerhard Stäblein and Wolfgang Zick: Investigations on the periglacial on the König-Georg-Insel, South Shetland Islands / Antarctica. German physiogeographic research in the Antarctic. Report on the 1983/84 campaign. Polar Research Reports No. 24, November 1985, map on p. 14. Retrieved July 24, 2018