Mossman Peninsula
| Mossman Peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 44 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ W | |
| location | Laurie Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
| Waters 1 | Scotia Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Wilton Bay | |
| length | 5 km | |
 Laurie Island with the Mossman Peninsula in the southwest |
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The Mossman Peninsula is a narrow and 5 km long peninsula , the south in the western part of Laurie Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands , the Scotia Bay of Wilton Bay separates. At its end are the Hartree and Murdoch capes .
It was discovered and roughly mapped in 1821 by the British sealer captain George Powell (1794-1824) on the Dove and the American navigator Nathaniel Palmer on the Hero . A detailed cartographic survey was made in 1903 by participants of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under the direction of William Speirs Bruce . Bruce named the peninsula after his meteorologist Robert Cockburn Mossman (1870-1940).
Web links
- Mossman Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mossman Peninsula on geographic.org (English)