Guest Peninsula
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 18 ′ S , 148 ° 0 ′ W | |
| location | Saunders Coast , Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Waters 1 | Southern ocean | |
| Waters 2 | Sulzberger Ice Shelf | |
| Waters 3 | Block Bay | |
| length | 72 km | |
| width | 12 km | |
| surface | 2 000 km² | |
The Guest Peninsula is an ice-covered peninsula on the Saunders Coast of Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It protrudes about 72 km into the Southern Ocean between the Sulzberger Ice Shelf in the west and Block Bay in the east .
Mitchell Peak , located on the peninsula , was discovered during the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . It was mapped using surveys carried out in 1940 by the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). It was finally identified as a peninsula using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy between 1962 and 1965. It is named after Amy Phipps Guest (1876-1959), a participant in Byrd's second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935).
Web links
- Guest Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Guest 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. 671 (English).