Schmidt Peninsula
Schmidt Peninsula | ||
View over the Schmidt peninsula with the Bernardo O'Higgins station |
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Geographical location | ||
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Coordinates | 63 ° 19 '16 " S , 57 ° 53' 55" W | |
location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
Waters 1 | Bransfield Street | |
Waters 2 | Unwin Cove | |
Waters 3 | Covadonga Harbor |
The Schmidt Peninsula is a small peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is connected to Cape Legoupil on the Trinity Peninsula by a shallow isthmus .
Participants of the 2nd Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1947–1948) named them after Hugo Schmidt Prado (* 1913), captain of the Chilean army and first head of the Bernardo O'Higgins station built on this peninsula in 1948 .
Web links
- Schmidt Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Schmidt Peninsula on geographic.org (English)
- Schmidt Peninsula on a topographic map of the Trinity Peninsula, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy
Individual evidence
- ^ Hugo Schmidt Prado. Entry on antarticaheroesanonimos.cl (Spanish, accessed January 6, 2016).