Keller Peninsula is a high
peninsula
A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is only connected to land on one side. Peninsulas exist on each continent. The largest peninsula in the world is the Arabian Peninsula.
Etymology
The word ''peninsula'' derives , . T ...
separating
Mackellar Inlet and
Martel Inlet in
Admiralty Bay, on
King George Island, in the
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antarctic islands located in the Drake Passage with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the n ...
of
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. ...
. The name Keller was applied by the
French Antarctic Expedition
The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica.
1837–1840
In 1837, during an 1837–1840 expedition across the deep southern hemisphere, Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville sailed his ship ''Astrolabe'' alo ...
under
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, (15 July 1867 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris – 16 September 1936 at sea (30 miles north-west of Reykjavik, Iceland), was a French scientist, medical doctor ...
, who charted Admiralty Bay in December 1909.
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Station G
Keller Peninsula was the location of the British research Station G. The first hut was built on 18 January 1947; a second was constructed on 14 February 1948 and moved to Signy Island in 1950. A hut, known as Sparrow House, was built on 28 January 1949 and a third was established on 6 January 1956. The researchers had the tasks of the searching in the fields of meteorology, glaciology and geology. The station was inhabited in the austral summer 1947 and from January 1948 to 19 January 1961. The buildings were demolished from July 1995 to February 1996 by members of the Brazilian Antarctic Expedition of the nearby Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station. Station G
''British Antarctic Survey''
See also
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List of Antarctic research stations
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List of Antarctic field camps
Many research stations in Antarctica support satellite field camps which are, in general, seasonal camps. The type of field camp can vary – some are permanent structures used during the annual Antarctic summer, whereas others are little more tha ...
*
Crime in Antarctica
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Cane ...
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Plaza Point
References
Peninsulas of King George Island (South Shetland Islands)
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