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Kran Peninsula (, ) is the heavily indented peninsula forming the northeast extremity of
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 63 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
basic data
in English)
Kran Peninsula.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Kran Peninsula.
Copernix satellite image
Kran Peninsula
on AADC website Bulgaria and the Antarctic Peninsulas of Graham Land Landforms of the Palmer Archipelago Liège Island {{LiegeIsland-geo-stub
Kran Peninsula (, ) is the heavily indented peninsula forming the northeast extremity of Liège Island
Liège Island (in English also Liege Island) is an island, long and wide, lying immediately northeast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, and separated from Hoseason Island and Christiania Islands to the northeast by Croker Passage ...
in the Palmer Archipelago
Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anvers ...
, 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. ...
. It extends 2.85 km in north-south direction and 2.35 km in east-west direction, ending up in Moureaux Point to the north and Neyt Point to the east, and connected to the rest of the island by a 200 m wide neck to the south.
The feature is named after the town of Kran in Southern Bulgaria.
Location
Kran Peninsula is centred at . British mapping in 1978.Maps
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 63 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
See also
*Mount Pierre (Palmer Archipelago)
Mount Pierre is a sharp conical peak, 210 m, standing immediately south of Moureaux Point on Kran Peninsula, Liège Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It was discovered and named by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de ...
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission
The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bulgaria), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria.
The Commis ...
. (details in Bulgarianbasic data
in English)
Kran Peninsula.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Kran Peninsula.
Copernix satellite image
Kran Peninsula
on AADC website Bulgaria and the Antarctic Peninsulas of Graham Land Landforms of the Palmer Archipelago Liège Island {{LiegeIsland-geo-stub