Graham Land
66°00′S 63°30′W / 66.000°S 63.500°W
Graham Land is the portion of the
Graham Land is named after Sir
Graham Land is the closest part of Antarctica to South America.[2] Thus it is the usual destination for small ships taking paying visitors on Antarctic trips from South America.[3] (Larger ships are not allowed to disembark passengers.)
Until the discoveries of the
Argentina calls the area Tierra de San Martín (Land of San Martin)[5] and also calls the northern peninsula (Trinity Peninsula) Península Trinidad or Tierra de la Trinidad. Similarly, Chile calls the entire Antarctic Peninsula Tierra de O'Higgins (Land of O'Higgins).[5]
Features
Peaks
- Mount Brading, seven kilometres (four nautical miles) east of the northeast corner of Larsen Inlet.
- The Downfall, located between the heads of Arago Glacier and Woodbury Glacier.
Plateaus
The interior of Graham Land is occupied by a series of plateaus, namely (north to south) Laclavère Plateau, Louis Philippe Plateau, Detroit Plateau, Herbert Plateau, Foster Plateau, Forbidden Plateau, Bruce Plateau, Avery Plateau and Hemimont Plateau.
See also
- British Graham Land Expedition
- Geology of the Antarctic Peninsula
- Gerlache Strait Geology
References
- ISBN 0520025571.
- ^ ESA Science & Technology: Graham Land
- ^ "A cruise to Antarctica is a trip like no other". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2022-01-24.
- ISBN 978-0-7112-2980-8.
- ^ a b Антарктический полуостров, an article from Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
Further reading
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Graham Land
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
External links
- Media related to Graham Land at Wikimedia Commons