Daniell Peninsula
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Daniell Peninsula is the large peninsula
between Cape Daniell
and Cape Jones
on the coast of Victoria Land
. It is an elongated basalt dome similar to Adare and Hallett Peninsulas and rises to 2,000 meters. It is partly separated from the Victory Mountains
by Whitehall Glacier
, which is afloat in its lower reaches, but is joined to these mountains by the higher land in the vicinity of Mount Prior
. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
(NZGSAE), 1957–58, after Cape Daniell, and by analogy with Adare and Hallett Peninsulas.
Peninsula
A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic and Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands"....
between Cape Daniell
Cape Daniell
Cape Daniell is a cape at the northeast extremity of Daniell Peninsula which marks the south side of the entrance to Tucker Inlet, in Victoria Land. Discovered, January 15, 1841, by Sir James Clark Ross who named it for Professor Daniell, chemist of King's College, Cambridge University, and...
and Cape Jones
Cape Jones
Cape Jones is the cape lying immediately southeast of Mount Lubbock and marking the south tip of Daniell Peninsula, in Victoria Land. Discovered in January 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross who named it for Captain William Jones, RN....
on the coast of Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. It is an elongated basalt dome similar to Adare and Hallett Peninsulas and rises to 2,000 meters. It is partly separated from the Victory Mountains
Victory Mountains
The Victory Mountains is a major group of mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long and wide, which is bounded primarily by Mariner and Tucker glaciers and the Ross Sea...
by Whitehall Glacier
Whitehall Glacier
Whitehall Glacier is a large glacier flowing north into Tucker Inlet between Daniell Peninsula and the southeast part of the Victory Mountains, in Victoria Land...
, which is afloat in its lower reaches, but is joined to these mountains by the higher land in the vicinity of Mount Prior
Mount Prior
Mount Prior is a mountain about 10 nautical miles west of Mount Brewster, rising at the head of Whitehall Glacier in the west part of Daniell Peninsula, Victoria Land. Named by New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , 1957–58, for George T...
. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active in 1957-58 and again in 1958-59. The 1957-58 expedition went to the Ross Dependency and named the Borchgrevink Glacier...
(NZGSAE), 1957–58, after Cape Daniell, and by analogy with Adare and Hallett Peninsulas.