Palmer Land () is the portion of the

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. ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...

that lies south of a line joining

Cape Jeremy Cape Jeremy is a cape marking the east side of the north entrance to George VI Sound and the west end of a line dividing Graham Land and Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British Graham Land expedition, 1934–1937, under John Rid ...

and

Cape Agassiz The Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula() is an ice-covered spur from the main mountain mass of the Antarctic Peninsula. It projects over in a northeasterly arc from its base between Mobiloil Inlet and Casey Inlet. Location The Hollick-Kenyon Peninsul ...

. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

and the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...

, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of Antarctica, and the names

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...

and Palmer Land for the northern and southern portions, respectively. The line dividing them is roughly 69° S.

Boundaries

In its southern extreme, the Antarctic Peninsula stretches west, with Palmer Land eventually bordering

Ellsworth Land Ellsworth Land is a portion of the Antarctica, Antarctic continent bounded on the west by Marie Byrd Land, on the north by the Bellingshausen Sea, on the northeast by the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, and on the east by the western margin of t ...

along the 80° W line of longitude. Palmer Land is bounded in the south by the ice-covered

Carlson Inlet Carlson Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet, long and wide, lying between Fletcher Ice Rise and Fowler Ice Rise in the southwest part of the Ronne Ice Shelf. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Ronald F. Carlson, ...

, an arm of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, which crosses the 80° W line. This is the base of

Cetus Hill Cetus Hill is a large ice-covered mound which comes to a point with three jagged rock peaks at its west end. It is located at the head of Ryder Glacier in western Palmer Land, about east-northeast of Gurney Point. It was named by the UK Antarctic P ...

. This feature is named after

Nathaniel Palmer Nathaniel Brown Palmer (August 8, 1799 – June 21, 1877) was an American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, ship designer, and a whale hunter. He gave his name to Palmer Land, Antarctica, which he explored in 1820 on his sloop ''Hero''. ...

, an American sealer who explored the Antarctic Peninsula area southward of

Deception Island Deception Island is in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbour, which is occasionally affected by the underlying active volcano. This island is the caldera of an active volc ...

in the sloop ''

Hero A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or Physical strength, strength. The original hero type of classical epics did such thin ...

'' in November 1820.

Features

Mountain ranges and isolated peaks

* Briesemeister Peak * Carey Range *

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Dana Mountains The Dana Mountains () are a group of mountains just northwest of New Bedford Inlet, bounded by Mosby Glacier on the north and Haines Glacier and Meinardus Glacier on the south, in Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Dana Mountains are in so ...

Du Toit Mountains The Du Toit Mountains () are a group of mountains about long and wide, to the south-west of the Wilson Mountains in southeastern Palmer Land, Antarctica. The mountains have peaks rising to and are bounded by Beaumont Glacier, Maury Glacier an ...

* Engel Peaks () * Mount Peterson *

Mount Pitman Mount Pitman () is a mountain in Antarctica. It features two mainly ice-covered, dome-shaped summits, the higher and northern rising to 1,830 m, standing 9 nautical miles (17 km) inland from George VI Sound, between Riley and Chapman Glacie ...

Mount Poster The Latady Mountains () are a group of mountains rising west of Gardner Inlet and between Wetmore Glacier and Ketchum Glacier, in southeastern Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Latady Mountains are in the southeast of Palmer Land. They a ...

* Mount Southern * Mount Strong *

Mount Sullivan The Eternity Range () is a range of mountains long, rising to , and trending north–south approximately in the middle of the Antarctic Peninsula. The range is divided into three main mountain blocks, the major summits in each from north to south ...

Pegasus Mountains Pegasus Mountains () is a mountain range, 16 nautical miles (30 km) long, consisting of a system of ridges and peaks broken by two passes. Located between Bertram and Ryder Glaciers and immediately east of Gurney Point on the west coast o ...

Mandolin Hills The Mandolin Hills are an isolated group of nunataks which rise above the ice, east of Mount Noel, Traverse Mountains, in northwestern Palmer Land, Antarctica. The group was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarct ...

* O'Sullivan Peak *

Renner Peak Renner Peak () is the dominant peak on the small mountain mass between Chapman and Naess Glaciers on the west coast of Palmer Land. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Robert G.B. Renner, British Antarctic Survey ...

Waitt Peaks Condor Peninsula () is a mountainous, ice-covered peninsula, long and wide, between Odom Inlet and Hilton Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Condor Peninsula is on the Black Coast of Palmer Land, beside the We ...

Nunatuks

*Aldebaran Rock (), a particularly conspicuous

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit language, Inuit ) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They often form natural pyramidal peaks. Isolated nunataks are also cal ...

of bright red rock, located near the head of

Bertram Glacier Bertram Glacier () is a glacier, long and wide at its mouth, which flows west from the Dyer Plateau of Palmer Land into George VI Sound between Wade Point and Gurney Point. It was discovered and first surveyed in 1936 by A. Stephenson, W.L.S ...

and northeast of

in western Palmer Land. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after

Aldebaran Aldebaran () is a star in the zodiac constellation of Taurus. It has the Bayer designation α Tauri, which is Latinized to Alpha Tauri and abbreviated Alpha Tau or α Tau. Aldebaran varies in brightness from an apparent vis ...

, an orange-colored star that is the brightest in the

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Other

* Cape Rymill *

Rhino Rock Stefansson Strait () is an ice-filled strait long and wide, between the east coast of Palmer Land and Hearst Island, Antarctica. Location Stefansson Strait is on the Wilkins Coast of Palmer Land, beside the Weddell Sea to the east. It is east ...

Scott Uplands Wegener Range () is a mountain range with peaks rising to , trending west-northwest – east-soitheast for about between Maury Glacier and Fenton Glacier in southeast Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Wegener Range is in eastern Palmer ...

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