Hut Point Peninsula

	Hut Point Peninsula
	Geographical location
Coordinates	77 ° 46 ′ S , 166 ° 51 ′ E Coordinates: 77 ° 46 ′ S , 166 ° 51 ′ E
location	Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago )
Waters 1	Erebus Bay ( Ross Sea )
Waters 2	Ross Ice Shelf
length	24 km
width	4.8 km
	; Ross Island with Hut Point Peninsula (bottom left)

The Hut Point Peninsula ( English Hut Point Peninsula ) is the southwestern extension of the Antarctic Ross Island . The southeastern flank of the peninsula , which is around 4.8 kilometers wide and 24 kilometers long, faces the Ross Ice Shelf , and to the west it borders on Erebus Bay . The southern end of the peninsula, at the same time the southern tip of the entire island, is Cape Armitage .

As part of a volcanic island , the Hut Point Peninsula consists of a series of volcanic cinder cones , the highest point of which is Castle Rock with a height of 413 m . Rock dating showed a Pleistocene age of 1.2 to 0.3 million years.

The Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) under Robert Falcon Scott built their hut ( English hut ) at Hut Point , a headland about 1.6 kilometers northwest of Cape Armitage at the southern end of the peninsula, now not far from McMurdo Station . Members of Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) often used the hut on their travels, even though they had their base camp on Cape Evans . They also coined the name "Hut Point Peninsula".

The US McMurdo Station and New Zealand's Scott Base are research stations near the tip of the Hut Point Peninsula.

Web links

Commons : Hut Point Peninsula - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Hut Point Peninsula in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System .
Hut Point Peninsula in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English).

Individual evidence

^ Lisa Tauxe et al .: Paleomagnetism and ⁴⁰ Ar / ³⁹ Ar ages from volcanics extruded during the Matuyama and Brunhes Chrons near McMurdo Sound, Antarctica . In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems . tape 5 , no. June 6 , 2004, ISSN 1525-2027 , doi : 10.1029 / 2003GC000656 (English).

Tip of the peninsula
Scott's Hut (2006), McMurdo Station in the background

[1] Lisa Tauxe et al .: Paleomagnetism and ⁴⁰ Ar / ³⁹ Ar ages from volcanics extruded during the Matuyama and Brunhes Chrons near McMurdo Sound, Antarctica . In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems . tape 5 , no. June 6 , 2004, ISSN 1525-2027 , doi : 10.1029 / 2003GC000656 (English).