Stansbury Peninsula
| Stansbury Peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 14 '24 " S , 58 ° 59' 51" W | |
| location | Nelson Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Waters 1 | Fildes Strait | |
| Waters 2 | Edgell Bay | |
The Stansbury Peninsula is a peninsula at the north end of Nelson Island in the Archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It lies between Edgell Bay and Fildes Strait .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1978 after Michael Johnn Stansbury (* 1934) of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , meteorologist in Grytviken (1958-1959) and station manager in Admiralty Bay (1959-1960). Scientists on a Polish expedition named it Wzgórze Helikoptera (Polish for helicopter hill ; English Helicopter Hills ) after the helicopter landings carried out here between 1980 and 1981 .
Web links
- Stansbury Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stansbury Peninsula on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helicopter Hills in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (accessed July 24, 2020)