Jason Peninsula
| Jason Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 10 ′ S , 61 ° 0 ′ W |
| Waters 1 | Weddell Sea (east) |
| Waters 2 | Scar Inlet , Standring Inlet (north) |
| Waters 3 | Adie Inlet , Stratton Inlet (south) |
| length | 67 km |
The Jason Peninsula is a large peninsula on the Oscar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises from the Larsen Ice Shelf and extends over a length of 67 km from a narrow strip of land east of the Medea Dome to Cape Framnes . The peninsula is home to a large number of nunatakkers .
It was discovered on December 1, 1893 by the Norwegian Antarctic explorer Carl Anton Larsen , who named it after his ship Jason . Larsen, however, was too far from the coast to map the area thoroughly. Otto Nordenskjöld caught up with this in 1902 as part of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) from Borchgrevink-Nunatak . However, Nordenskjöld mistakenly mistook the formation for an island. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey corrected this mistake in 1955 by measuring the area.
Web links
- Jason Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jason Peninsula on geographic.org (English)