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| Coordinates | 69 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 76 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| location | Ingrid Christensen Coast , Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters 1 | Prydz Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Barry Jones Bay | |
| Waters 3 | Thala Fjord | |
| Waters 4 | Johnston Fjord | |
| length | 5 km | |
| width | 7 km | |
| surface | 21.13 km² | |
The Stornes ( Norwegian for Great Headland ) is a 5 km long and 21.13 km² large, rocky and rugged peninsula on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It juts out into Prydz Bay immediately west of the Larsemann Hills . With the exception of a small and isolated glacier 2 km in diameter, the Stornes is ice-free in summer.
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them descriptively, mapped them using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 .
Most of the peninsula is designated as a specially protected area ASPA-174. The entire Stornes is also in the ASMA-6 special administrative area . Their unique geological properties are particularly worthy of protection. Five borosilicate and nine phosphate minerals occur here. The rare borosilicates prismatin and grandidierite are found in spectacular crystals , and the ferromagnetic fluorophosphate Wagnerite occurs in two different polytypes . Stornes is the type locality of the minerals Boralsilit , Stornesit- (Y) and Tassieit . In addition, there are also fossil sediments from a period of low glaciation four million years ago.
Web links
- Stornes Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stornes Peninsula on geographic.org (English)
- Geological map of the Stornes Peninsula (PDF) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)
- Map of the ASMA-6 "Larsemann Hills" Special Administrative Region (PDF) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 175: Stornes, Larsemann Hills, Princess Elizabeth Land (PDF; 1.06 MB), Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty, 2014 (English)