Philippi Rise
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 6 ′ S , 62 ° 18 ′ W | |
| location | Oscar II Coast , Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Waters 1 | Scar Inlet | |
| Waters 2 | Adie inlet | |
| length | 16 km | |
| width | 11 km | |
Philippi Rise ( English ) is an icy and up to 395 m high peninsula , which extends southeast on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula into the Weddell Sea . The ice cover rises highest in the west of the peninsula and is broken there by the Borchgrevink and Gemini Nunataks.
It was first described by participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under Otto Nordenskjöld , although its actual nature could not be clarified. Nordenskjöld thought the formation was a glacier and named it after the German geologist Emil Philippi (1871-1910). Measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 revealed that it was actually a peninsula.
Web links
- Philippi Rise in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Philippi Rise on geographic.org (English)