Beethoven Peninsula
The Beethoven Peninsula is a deeply indented, ice-covered peninsula, 60 miles (100 km) long in a northeast–southwest direction and 60 miles (100 km) wide at its broadest part, forming the southwest part of
Brahms Inlet and the Verdi Inlet apparently intrude into it. The Bach Ice Shelf, Rossini Point and Berlioz Point are some distance away, on the Ronne Entrance from the Southern Ocean
. Beethoven Peninsula is one of the eight peninsulas of Alexander Island.
The peninsula was first seen and photographed from the air in 1940 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the composer Ludwig van Beethoven
.
See also
Further reading
- Smellie, J.L., Hole, M.J. & Nell, P.A.R., Late Miocene valley-confined subglacial volcanism in northern Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Bull Volcanol 55, 273–288 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00624355
- International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences 5th : 1987, Geological Evolution of Antarctica, Cambridge, England, P 523
- A. J. Cook and D. G. Vaughan, Overview of areal changes of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 50 year, The Cryosphere, 4, 77–98, 2010 www.the-cryosphere.net/4/77/2010/
Further reading
- Beethoven Peninsula on USGSwebsite
- Beethoven Peninsula on SCAR website
- Beethoven Peninsula area map
- Beethoven Peninsula volcanic information
- Beethoven Peninsula current weather
- Beethoven Peninsula sunset/ sunrise moon set/moon rise times Archived 7 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine
References
- National Geographic Atlas of the World, 7th Edition.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Beethoven Peninsula". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
71°44′S 73°41′W / 71.733°S 73.683°W
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