Joerg Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Joerg Peninsula (The name as it would appear on a map)
If this information is incorrect, please e-mail mapping@aad.gov.au
Feature type: Peninsula
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
between Trail Inlet and Sol- berg Inlet, Bowman Coast, terminating in Three Slice Nunatak, was probably seen from the air by Wilkins, 20 December 1928; photographed from the air from the SW by Ellsworth, 21 November 1935 (Joerg, 1936, Fig. 4, p.345); roughly mapped from the air photographs (Joerg, 1937, map facing p.444); again photographed from the air by USAS in September 1940, and surveyed by a sledge party from the same expedition in December 1940, when what was considered to be the E point of the peninsula was called Clarkson Point after Mrs Darlington (née Clarkson) mother of H. Darlington III (Cape Darlington, q.v.) (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942; USHO, 1943, photograph p.271). Clarkson Point Peninsula, referring to the whole peninsula (USHO, 1943, p.271). Punta Clarkson, referring to the E point of the peninsula (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.77). Following survey by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1946-48, the feature was named Joerg Peninsula after Wolfgang Louis Gottfried Joerg (1885-1952), American geographer, polar cartographer and toponymist, who made important contributions to the early mapping of this and other areas; Chairman, USBGN Special Committee on Antarctic Names 1943-47; member of USACAN, 1947-52 (BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.12; DOS 601 sheet 68, 64, 1955; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). Cabo Clarkson (Lliboutry, 1956, map p.440). Península Joerg (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.447; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.165). Poluostrov Yerg (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The peninsula was further photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69.
No images of this place could be found.
Aus_display_scale_20M: | No | Aus_display_scale_10M: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_5M: | No | Aus_display_scale_2M: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_1M: | No | Aus_display_scale_500k: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_250k: | No | Aus_display_scale_100k: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_50k: | No | Aus_display_scale_25k: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_10k: | No | Aus_display_scale_5k: | No | ||
Aus_display_scale_1k: | No |
Biodiversity
View
fauna,
flora or
both
within 1.0 degree of this location
Place names
View
British or
international
place names within 1.0 degree of this location.