Hurd Peninsula

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Location of Hurd Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Hurd-Peninsula-location-map.png
Location of Hurd Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
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Hurd Peninsula from Mount Friesland.
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Topographic map of Livingston Island.

Hurd Peninsula lies between South Bay and False Bay on the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The Spanish Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base and the Bulgarian St. Kliment Ohridski Base are situated on its west coast.

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The peninsula was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 for Captain Thomas Hurd, Royal Navy, the second Hydrographer to the British Admiralty, 1808–23, who instituted a regular system of nautical surveys, and under whose authority Lieutenant Edward Bransfield's 1820 survey of the Bransfield Strait area was published in November 1822. [1]

Location

The midpoint of the peninsula is located at 62°40′33″S60°21′59″W / 62.67583°S 60.36639°W / -62.67583; -60.36639 Coordinates: 62°40′33″S60°21′59″W / 62.67583°S 60.36639°W / -62.67583; -60.36639 (Detailed Spanish mapping in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

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Orpheus Gate

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Rezen Knoll

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Wörner Gap

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Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base Antarctic base

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Burdick Ridge

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St. Ivan Rilski Chapel chapel on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands

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Charrúa Ridge

Charrúa Ridge is an ice-free rocky ridge rising to 333 metres (1,093 ft) along the northeast coast of Johnsons Dock in Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is narrow and precipitous, extending 700 metres (800 yd) in a west-northwest to east-southeast direction, with triple heights of elevation 322, 333 and 332 m respectively, and linked to Castillo Nunatak by Charrúa Gap. It surmounts Contell Glacier to the north, South Bay to the west, Johnsons Dock to the southwest and Johnsons Glacier to the south. It forms a prominent landmark in the area between the Spanish Antarctic base Juan Carlos I and the Bulgarian Antarctic base St. Kliment Ohridski.

Sally Rocks

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References

PD-icon.svg This article incorporates  public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Hurd Peninsula".(content from the Geographic Names Information System )