Hall Peninsula
| Hall Peninsula | ||
 The Hall Peninsula on the east coast of Snow Island (bottom left) |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 46 ′ 5 ″ S , 61 ° 14 ′ 36 ″ W | |
| location | Snow Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Waters 1 | Bransfield Street | |
| Waters 2 | Ivaylo Cove | |
The Hall Peninsula is a small peninsula to the east of Snow Island in the Archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is 3 km southwest of President Head .
The British navigator James Weddell named Snow Island as Basil Halls Island on his Antarctic voyage from 1820 to 1823 , named after Captain Basil Hall (1788-1844) of the Royal Navy . However, this name did not prevail. In order to keep it in a different form, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1962 to transfer it to the peninsula described here.
Web links
- Hall Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hall Peninsula on geographic.org (English)