The Longing Peninsula () is a peninsula long terminating in Cape Longing, situated at the northeast end of the

Nordenskjöld Coast The Nordenskjöld Coast (64° 30' S 60° 30' W) is located on the Antarctic Peninsula, more specifically Graham Land, which is the top region of the Peninsula. The Peninsula is a thin, long ice sheet with an Alpine-style mountain chain. The coast ...

where it separates the

Larsen Ice Shelf The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Longing to Smith Peninsula. It is named after Captain Carl Anton Larsen, the master of the ...

from the Prince Gustav Ice Shelf.

Location

The Longing Peninsula extends from the southeast coast of the

Trinity Peninsula Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the sou ...

into

Prince Gustav Channel The Prince Gustav Channel () is a strait about long and from wide, separating James Ross Island and Vega Island from the Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Location Prince Gustav Channel is in Graham Land on the southeast coast of the Trinity Pen ...

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 ...

at the northeast end 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. ...

. It is at the northeast end of Nordenskjold Coast.

Larsen Inlet Larsen Inlet () is an inlet, formerly ice-filled, long in a north–south direction and wide, between Cape Longing and Cape Sobral along the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Location Larsen inlet is at the east end of the Nordenskjö ...

is to the west of the peninsula, the

Weddell Sea The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha C ...

to the south and

to the east. Mount Tucker is to the north. The

Florentino Ameghino Refuge Florentino Ameghino Refuge () is an Antarctic refuge located on Cape Longing in the Trinity Peninsula, at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Structure and site The wooden hut, high and square, was built on 15 October 1960. The ice-free ...

is an Argentine camp on Cape Longing, at the tip of the peninsula.

Discovery and name

The Longing Peninsula was discovered and roughly charted by

Otto Nordenskjöld Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (6 December 1869 – 2 June 1928) was a Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer. Early life Nordenskjöld was born in Hässleby in Småland in eastern Sweden, in a family that included his maternal unc ...

, leader of the

swedish Antarctic Expedition The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1903 was a scientific expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. It was the first Swedish endeavour to Antarctica in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Background Otto Nordensk ...

(SwedAE), 1901-04, who named Cape Longing. The peninsula was named after the cape by 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 ...

(UK-APC) following

British Antarctic Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of list of global issues, global issues, and to provide an active prese ...

(BAS) geological work in the area, 1987-88.

Features

Features of the peninsula, and nearby features, include

Cape Longing

. A rocky cape on the east coast of Graham Land, forming the south end of a large ice-covered promontory which marks the west side of the south entrance to Prince Gustav Channel. Discovered by the SwedAE under Nordenskjold in 1902, and so named by him because from the position of his winter hut on Snow Hill Island the cape lay in the direction of his "land of longing" which he was anxious to explore.

Longing Gap

. A constriction in the promontory north of Cape Longing, where the land narrows to and forms a low isthmus. The gap is used to avoid the long detour around Cape Longing. Mapped from surveys by the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...

(FIDS) (1960-61). Named by the

(UK-APC) in association with Cape Longing.

Nordenskjöld Outcrops

. Rock outcrops on the west side of Longing Peninsula. The feature extends south for from the vicinity of Longing Gap and is the type locality for the geologic Nordenskjold Formation. Named by the UK-APC following BAS geological work, 1987-88, after Otto Nordenskjold, leader of the SwedAE, 1901-04, who explored this coast in 1902.

Ameghino Gully

. A gully running E-W through the outcrops on the west side of Longing Peninsula, Nordenskjold Coast. The name derives from "

Refugio Ameghino Florentino Ameghino Refuge () is an Antarctic refuge located on Cape Longing in the Trinity Peninsula, at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Structure and site The wooden hut, high and square, was built on 15 October 1960. The ice-free ...

," the Argentine refuge situated on the southwest side of Longing Gap and named in turn after

Florentino Ameghino Florentino Ameghino (born Giovanni Battista Fiorino Giuseppe Ameghino; September 19, 1853 – August 6, 1911) was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especial ...

(1854-1911), Argentine geologist and anthropologist; Director, Museum of Natural History, Buenos Aires, 1902-11. Named by the UK-APC in 1990.

References

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