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Coupvent Point
Coupvent Point () is a point, with several off-lying rocks, projecting north from Trinity Peninsula, southwest of Lafarge Rocks. Location Coupvent Point is near the east end of the north shore of Trinity Peninsula, which itself is the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It faces the Bransfield Strait. It is east of the Duroch Islands and Schmidt Peninsula, north of the Mott Snowfield and west of Caleta Thornton and Prime Head. Nomad Rock, Lafarge Rocks and Casy Island are north of the point. Name The name "Roche Coupvent" (Coupvent Rock) was given by Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville to a feature in the vicinity. The present name revives the d'Urville naming, given for Aimé Coupvent-Desbois, an officer on the ''Zélée'' and later the ''Astrolabe''. Nearby features Nearby features, from west to east, include: Kevin Islands . A cluster of small islands and rocks which lie close to the northern coast of Trinity Peninsula, midway between Halpern Point The Duroch Islands () a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the south-east coast. Prime Head is the northernmost point of this peninsula. Some 20 kilometers southeast of Prime Head is Hope Bay, Antarctica, Hope Bay with the year-round Argentinian Esperanza Base. History It was first sighted on 30 January 1820 by Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, immediately after his charting of the newly discovered South Shetland Islands nearby. In the century following the peninsula's discovery, chartmakers used various names (Trinity Land, Palmer Land, and Land of Louis Philippe) for this portion of it, each name having some historical merit. The recommended name derives from "Trinity Land", given by Bransfield during 1820 in likely recognition of the Corporation of Trinity House, Britain's historical maritime pil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. The Antarctic Peninsula is part of the larger peninsula of West Antarctica, protruding from a line between Cape Adams (Weddell Sea) and a point on the mainland south of the Eklund Islands. Beneath the ice sheet that covers it, the Antarctic Peninsula consists of a string of bedrock islands; these are separated by deep channels whose bottoms lie at depths considerably below current sea level. They are joined by a grounded ice sheet. Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of South America, is about away across the Drake Passage. The Antarctic Peninsula is in area and 80% ice-covered. The marine ecosystem around the western continental shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) has been subjected to rapid Climate change in Antarctica, clima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bransfield Strait
Bransfield Strait or Fleet Sea () is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast – southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. History The strait was named in about 1825 by James Weddell, Master, Royal Navy, for Edward Bransfield, Master, RN, who charted the South Shetland Islands in 1820. It is called ''Mar de la Flota'' by Argentina. On 23 November 2007, the MS ''Explorer'' struck an iceberg and sank in the strait; all 154 passengers were rescued and no injuries were reported. Description The undersea trough through the strait is known as Bransfield Trough (). The basin is about 400 km long and 2 km deep, between the South Shetland Island Arc and the Antarctic Peninsula. It was formed by rifting behind the islands, which began about 4 million years ago. Ongoing rifting has caused recent earthquakes and volcanism. The Strait hosts a chain of submerged seamounts of volcanic origin, including the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duroch Islands
The Duroch Islands () are a group of islands and rocks which extend over an area of about , centred about off Cape Legoupil on the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. The islands are close to Chile's Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme at Cape Legoupil. Location The Duroch Islands lie off the Schmidt Peninsula at the east end of Huon Bay on the north shore of Trinity Peninsula, which itself is the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. They are in the Bransfield Strait. The Mott Snowfield is to the east and the Laclavère Plateau to the south. The main features are Kopaitic Island, Largo Island and the Wisconsin Islands. Nearby features include Bulnes Island and Link Island. Discovery and name The Duroch Islands were discovered by a French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, 1837–40, who gave the name "Rocher Duroch" to one of the larger islands in the group. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), which charted the islands in 1946, recomme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schmidt Peninsula (Antarctica)
Schmidt Peninsula () is a small peninsula connected by a low isthmus to Cape Legoupil on the Trinity Peninsula of Antarctica. Location Schmidt Peninsula lies at the east end of Huon Bay on the north shore of Trinity Peninsula, which itself is the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It faces the Bransfield Strait. The Duroch Islands lie off the end of the peninsula. The Mott Snowfield is to the east and the Laclavere Plateau to the south. Cape Legoupil to the west terminates in Schmidt Peninsula. Name The Schmidt Peninsula was named by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition The First Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1947–1948) was an expedition to Antarctica mounted by the Chilean government and military to enforce its territorial claims against British challenges, namely Operation Tabarin. Among other accomplishmen ... of 1947-48 for Captain Hugo Schmidt Prado, Chilean Army, the first commander of Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme established in 1948 on this peninsula. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mott Snowfield
Mott Snowfield () is a snowfield in the northeast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica, between Laclavère Plateau and the Antarctic Sound. Location Mott Snowfield is in Graham Land in the north of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is southeast of the Duroch Islands and Schmidt Peninsula, south of Coupvent Point and Prime Head, southwest of Mount Bransfield, northwest of Hope Bay, and northeast of Laclavère Plateau. Named features include Fidase Peak, Magnet Hill and Camel Nunataks. Name Mott Snowfield was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Peter G. Mott, leader of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE), 1955–57. Features Fidase Peak . A distinctive peak east of Mount Jacquinot, rising to high at the west end of Mott Snowfield. FIDASE represents the initial letters of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1955-57) led by P.O. Mott. Magnet H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Head
Prime Head () is a prominent snow-covered headland which forms the north extremity of the Antarctic Peninsula. Location Prime Head is the northern tip of Trinity Peninsula, which itself is the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It faces the Bransfield Strait, which the Antarctic Sound enters to its east. Casy Island and Coupvent Point are to the west, Mott Snowfield is to the south and Cape Siffrey and Mount Bransfield are to the east. The Gourdin Island and Column Rock are just north of Prime Head. Name The name Siffrey was given to a cape in this vicinity by the French Antarctic Expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, 1837–40, and was previously approved for the feature here described. D'Urville's "Cap Siffrey" has since been identified by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) as a point two miles to the east-southeast, now called Siffrey Point. The name Prime Head, given by the UK-APC in 1963, alludes to the position of the headland as the first or no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Dumont D'Urville
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (; 23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French List of explorers, explorer and French Navy, naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer, he gave his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs and to places such as d'Urville Island in New Zealand. Early life and education Dumont was born at Condé-sur-Noireau in Lower Normandy. His father, Gabriel Charles François Dumont, sieur d'Urville (1728–1796), Bailiff of Condé-sur-Noireau, was, like his ancestors, responsible to the court of Condé. His mother Jeanne Françoise Victoire Julie (1754–1832) came from Croisilles, Calvados, and was a rigid and formal woman from an ancient family of the rural nobility of Lower Normandy. The child was weak and often sickly. After the death of his father when he was six, his mother's brother, the Abbot of Croisilles, Calvados, Croisilles, played the part of his fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Astrolabe (1811)
''Astrolabe'' was originally a horse-transport barge converted into an exploration ship of the French Navy. Originally named ''Coquille'', she is famous for her travels with Jules Dumont d'Urville. The name derives from an early navigational instrument, the astrolabe, a precursor to the sextant. Career Voyage under the command of Louis Isidore Duperrey Louis-Isidore Duperrey commanded ''Coquille'' on its circumnavigation of the earth (1822–1825) with Jules Dumont d'Urville as second. René-Primevère Lesson also travelled on ''Coquille'' as a naval doctor and naturalist. On their return in March 1825, Lesson and Dumont brought back to France an imposing collection of animals and plants collected on the Falkland Islands, on the coasts of Chile and Peru, in the archipelagos of the Pacific and New Zealand, New Guinea and Australia. During the voyage the ship spent two weeks in the Bay of Islands in the north of New Zealand in 1824. The vessel arrived in Kosrae where Duper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halpern Point
The Duroch Islands () are a group of islands and rocks which extend over an area of about , centred about off Cape Legoupil on the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. The islands are close to Chile's Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme at Cape Legoupil. Location The Duroch Islands lie off the Schmidt Peninsula at the east end of Huon Bay on the north shore of Trinity Peninsula, which itself is the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. They are in the Bransfield Strait. The Mott Snowfield is to the east and the Laclavère Plateau to the south. The main features are Kopaitic Island, Largo Island and the Wisconsin Islands. Nearby features include Bulnes Island and Link Island. Discovery and name The Duroch Islands were discovered by a French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, 1837–40, who gave the name "Rocher Duroch" to one of the larger islands in the group. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), which charted the islands in 1946, recommen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Legoupil
Huon Bay () is the bay about ´ wide between Cape Ducorps and Cape Legoupil, along the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Location Huon Bay is in Graham Land on the north coast of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is southwest of the Schmidt Peninsula and northwest of the Laclavère Plateau. The Chilean Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme is to the east of the bay, as are the Duroch Islands and the Mott Snowfield. Cockerell Peninsula, Cape Ducorps and Lafond Bay are to the southwest. Exploration and name A French expedition under Capt. Jules Dumont d'Urville, 1837–40, originally gave the name Huon to a cape in this area after Felix Huon de Kermadec, a member of the expedition. A survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1946 did not identify the cape but applied the name to this bay which lies in the same area. Features Features and nearby features include, from northeast to southwest, Cape Legoup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
