Basement Peninsula
| Basement Peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 4 '23 " S , 58 ° 24' 22" W | |
| location | King George Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Waters 1 | Mackellar Inlet | |
| Waters 2 | Martel Inlet | |
The Keller Peninsula ( French Massif Keller ) is a peninsula up to 265 m high in the Admiralty Bay of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Island . It separates the Mackellar Inlet from the Martel Inlet .
The French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot identified it in December 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) as a massif and named it accordingly. The namesake is not known. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee made an adjustment to this name on September 23, 1960.
Web links
- Keller Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Keller Peninsula on geographic.org (English)