Priddy Promontory
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Coordinates | 69 ° 25 ′ S , 76 ° 2 ′ E | |
location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
coast | Ingrid Christensen Coast | |
Waters | Prydz Bay | |
Waters 2 | Barry Jones Bay |
The Priddy Promontory (in China Jiulong Bandao ) is the eastern two peninsulas southwest of the Stornes peninsula on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It protrudes from the Larsemann Hills into Prydz Bay .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it in connection with the Tonagh Promontory as the Storneskloa , mapped it using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1988 after Richard Priddy, a medic at Casey Station in the Antarctic winter of 1981 and deputy head of an ANARE campaign on the Larsemann Hills between 1987 and 1988.
Web links
- Priddy Promontory in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Geological map of the Stornes Peninsula (PDF) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1250 (English).