Name details

Bjerkø Peninsula

Bjerkø Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Bjerkø Peninsula  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2093

Feature type: Peninsula

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A prominent peninsula, the northern extremity of which is marked by Cape Darnley, on the eastern extremity of Mac.Robertson Land. Norwegian whalers explored this area in January and February, 1931, naming the cape at the end of this peninsula Bjerkxodden after Reidar Bjerkx of the whale catcher Bouvet II. Since Sir Douglas Mawson's reported sighting of Cape Darnley was on 26 December 1930, the name Cape Darnley is retained for the cape and the name Bjerkx applied to the peninsula.

Named For

Reidar Bjerkx of the whale catcher Bouvet II

Location

Latitude:
67° 49' 59.9" S
-67.83330°
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Longitude:
69° 30' 00.0" E
69.50000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
22-Oct-1968

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