Hulot Peninsula
| Hulot Peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ W | |
| location | Brabant Island ( Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters 1 | Schollaert Canal | |
| Waters 2 | Duperre Bay | |
| Waters 3 | Dallmann Bay | |
| length | 3 km | |
The Hulot Peninsula ( French Presqu'île Hulot ) is a rugged and 3 km long peninsula in the southwest of the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in the southwest of the entrance to the Duperré Bay and limits the entrance from the Dallmann Bay to the Schollaert Canal to the northeast . It is connected to the main mass of the Brabant Island via a 260 m wide isthmus . The highest point on the island is Mount Beddie, 435 m high .
It was first mapped during the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905). Its director, the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot , named it after the figure of Baron Hector Hulot from Honoré de Balzac's 1846 novel La cousine Bette (German: Kusine Lisbeth ), which was part of the on-board reading on the research trip.
Web links
- Hulot Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hulot Peninsula on geographic.org (English)