Riiser Larsen Peninsula
| Riiser Larsen Peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 34 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters 1 | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Waters 2 | Vestvika | |
The Riiser-Larsen Peninsula is a large peninsula of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It forms the western boundary of Lützow-Holm-Bucht and separates the Princess Ragnhild Coast from the Prince Harald Coast .
It is named after the Norwegian polar explorer and aviation pioneer Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen (1890-1965), who discovered it on February 21, 1931 while flying over the Antarctic with the ship Norvegia (1930-1931), financed by the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur Lars Christensen .
Web links
- Riiser-Larsen Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Riiser-Larsen Peninsula on geographic.org (English)