Stornes Peninsula

	Stornes Peninsula Stornes Peninsula () is a rocky, jagged peninsula A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all ... about 3 nautical miles (6 km) long, projecting into Prydz Bay just west of Larsemann Hills. First mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and named Stornes (big promontory, or ness). See also * Blundell Peak Peninsulas of Antarctica Landforms of Princess Elizabeth Land Ingrid Christensen Coast {{PrincessElizabethLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Peninsula A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all continents. The size of a peninsula can range from tiny to very large. The largest peninsula in the world is the Arabian Peninsula. Peninsulas form due to a variety of causes. Etymology Peninsula derives , which is translated as 'peninsula'. itself was derived , or together, 'almost an island'. The word entered English in the 16th century. Definitions A peninsula is usually defined as a piece of land surrounded on most, but not all sides, but is sometimes instead defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. A peninsula may be bordered by more than one body of water, and the body of water does not have to be an ocean or a sea. A piece of land on a very tight river bend or one between two rivers is sometimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Prydz Bay Prydz Bay is a deep embayment of Antarctica between the Lars Christensen Coast and Ingrid Christensen Coast. The Bay is at the downstream end of a giant glacial drainage system that originates in the East Antarctic interior. The Lambert Glacier flows from Lambert Graben into the Amery Ice Shelf on the south-west side of Prydz Bay. Other major glaciers drain into the southern end of the Amery Ice Shelf at 73° S where the marine part of the system starts at the modern grounding zone. The Amery Ice Shelf extends about 550 km north of the Lambert Glacier grounding zone and occupies a valley between 80 and 200 km wide. Depths to the bed beneath the Amery Ice Shelf are poorly known in detail but it is clearly over-deepened, reaching around -2500 m MSL close to the grounding zone. The Amery Ice Shelf occupies a very large U-shaped valley with exposed nunataks along the flanks reaching 1500 m in elevation and total relief as high as 3000 m. Seaward of the Amery Ice Shelf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Larsemann Hills The Larsemann Hills are a series of low rounded coastal hills along the southeastern shore of Prydz Bay, Antarctica extending for from Dålk Glacier. They were discovered in February 1935 by Captain Klarius Mikkelsen from the whaling ship ''Thorshavn'', sent out by Norwegian whaling magnate Lars Christensen, and given this name. The bedrock of the Larsemann Hills contains an unusually high abundance of boron and phosphate minerals and is the location of discovery of four new species of mineral. In 2014, the Stornes Peninsula within the Larsemann Hills was declared an Antarctic Specially Protected Area due to its mineral diversity. Research stations As an Antarctic oasis the hills are the home of several Antarctic research stations. * The abandoned original Russian Progress Station. * The relocated new Russian Progress II Station. * The Chinese Zhongshan station * The Australian-donated Romanian Law-Racoviță-Negoiță Station * The India India, officially the Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lars Christensen Expedition Lars is a common male name in Scandinavian countries. Origin ''Lars'' means "from the city of Laurentum". Lars is derived from the Latin name Laurentius, which means "from Laurentum" or "crowned with laurel". A homonymous Etruscan name was borne by several Etruscan kings, and later used as a last name by the Roman Lartia family. The etymology of the Etruscan name is unknown. People * Lars (bishop), 13th-century Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden * Lars Kristian Abrahamsen (1855–1921), Norwegian politician * Lars Ahlfors (1907–1996), Finnish Fields Medal recipient * Lars Amble (1939–2015), Swedish actor and director * Lars Herminius Aquilinus, ancient Roman consul Lars Bak (born 1980), Danish road bicycle racer Lars Bak (computer programmer) (born 1965), Danish computer programmer * Lars Bender (born 1989), German footballer * Lars Christensen (1884–1965), Norwegian shipowner, whaling magnate and philanthropist * Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846–1926), Swedish inventor * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Blundell Peak Blundell Peak () is a rock peak on Stornes Peninsula in Prydz Bay. First mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, it was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for A.A. Blundell, radio operator at Mawson Station in 1968, who assisted in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions tellurometer traverse from this peak to Reinbolt Hills Reinbolt Hills () is a group of rocky hills, low to moderate in height and about 5 nautical miles (9 km) long, situated 9 nautical miles (17 km) east of Gillock Island at the eastern margin of the Amery Ice Shelf. Delineated in 1952 by Joh ... in 1968. References * Mountains of Princess Elizabeth Land Ingrid Christensen Coast {{PrincessElizabethLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Peninsulas Of Antarctica A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all continents. The size of a peninsula can range from tiny to very large. The largest peninsula in the world is the Arabian Peninsula. Peninsulas form due to a variety of causes. Etymology Peninsula derives , which is translated as 'peninsula'. itself was derived , or together, 'almost an island'. The word entered English in the 16th century. Definitions A peninsula is usually defined as a piece of land surrounded on most, but not all sides, but is sometimes instead defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. A peninsula may be bordered by more than one body of water, and the body of water does not have to be an ocean or a sea. A piece of land on a very tight river bend or one between two rivers is sometimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Landforms Of Princess Elizabeth Land A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, mounds, hills, ridges, cliffs, valleys, rivers, peninsulas, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodies and sub-surface features. Mountains, hills, plateaux, and plains are the fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]