Sobral Peninsula
| Sobral Peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 29 ′ S , 59 ° 41 ′ W | |
| location | Nordenskjöld Coast , Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Waters 1 | Weddell Sea | |
| Waters 2 | Larsen Inlet | |
| Waters 3 | Mundraga Bay | |
| length | 18 km | |
| width | 8 kilometers | |
The Sobral Peninsula is a towering and mostly icy peninsula on the Nordenskjöld coast of West Antarctic Graham Land . With a length of 18 km and a width of 8 km, it forms the western boundary of the Larsen Inlet and separates it from Mundraga Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1963 based on the name of Cape Sobral at the southern end of the peninsula. Its namesake is the Argentinean José María Sobral (1880–1961), participant in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld .
After Lincoln Ellsworth's Antarctic flight in 1935, the peninsula was considered an island for a long time and was named Isla Chandler in 1963 by the Hydrographic Institute of the Chilean Navy , after Alberto Chandler Baunen, who was a crew member and meteorologist of the Argentine corvette Uruguay in 1903 to rescue the shipwrecked of the Swedish Antarctic expedition was involved - in ignorance of the land connection discovered by the British Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), which was only published in 1964.
Web links
- Sobral Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sobral Peninsula on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sobral Peninsula at the Australian Antarctic Data Center, accessed February 7, 2017
- ^ Chandler, Isla at the Australian Antarctic Data Center, accessed February 7, 2017