Krylov Peninsula is an ice-covered
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 ...
west of
Lauritzen Bay on
Oates Coast
Oates Coast () is the portion of the coast of Antarctica between Cape Hudson and Cape Williams. It forms the coast of Oates Land, part of the Australian claim to the Antarctic. The eastern portion of this coast was discovered in February 1911 b ...
,
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 was photographed by U.S. Navy
Operation Highjump
Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America (exploration b ...
(1946–47), the
Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (, ''Sovetskaya antarkticheskaya ekspeditsiya'') was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the Soviet Committee on Antarctic Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. It was ...
(1957–58), and the
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) is the historical name for the Australia: Antarctic Program#Australian Antarctic program, Australian Antarctic Program (AAP) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic D ...
(1959). It was named by the Soviet expedition after Soviet mathematician and academic naval architect
Alexei Krylov
Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov (; – October 26, 1945) was a Russian naval engineer, applied mathematician and memoirist.
Biography
Aleksey Nikolayevich Krylov was born on August 3 O.S., 1863 in Visyaga village near the town of Alatyr, Simbirsk ...
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See also
*Berg Mountains
The Lazarev Mountains () are a chain of mountains in Antarctica.
They extend along the west side of Matusevich Glacier southward of Eld Peak, and are about long.
Discovery and naming
The Lazarev Mountains were photographed from the air by Un ...
References
Peninsulas of Antarctica
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