Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Beethoven Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Beethoven Peninsula (The name as it would appear on a map)
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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:
SW Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by USAS in 1940 (Ronne, 1945, map p.14) and by RARE in December 1947 (Ronne, 1948b, map p.356); following map compilation from these photographs by FIDS in 1959, named after Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German composer, in association with the names of other composers in this area (APC, 1961, p.2; USHO chart V30-SP6, 1962; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; Searle, 1963, end map). Penïnsula Beethoven (Argentina. IGM map, 1966). Poluostrov Betkhovena (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24). The peninsula was remapped from US LANDSAT imagery of January 1973 and its position adjusted (BAS 250P sheets SR 17-18/15, 16 and SS 16-18/4, 1-DOS 1974).
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