Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula
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Pefaur Peninsula is the heavily glaciated peninsula projecting 11 km in northwest direction from Danco Coast
on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula
. Bounded by Hughes Bay
to the northeast and Charlotte Bay
to the south, and separated from Brabant Island
to the northwest by Gerlache Strait
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The peninsula is named both by Argentina and Chile, in the latter case for J. Pefaur, biologist at the University of Concepción who worked on board the naval vessel Yelcho during the 1967-68 Chilean Antarctic Expedition.
Danco Coast
Danco Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, who named it for Lieutenant Emile Danco who died on the expedition....
on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....
. Bounded by Hughes Bay
Hughes Bay
Hughes Bay is the 42 km wide bay indenting for 20 km Danco Coast on the west side of Graham Land, Antarctica, lying south of Chavdar Peninsula and north of Pefaur Peninsula, and entered between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray....
to the northeast and Charlotte Bay
Charlotte Bay
Charlotte Bay is a bay on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula indenting the west coast of Graham Land in a southeast direction for , between Reclus Peninsula and Cape Murray...
to the south, and separated from Brabant Island
Brabant Island
Brabant Island is the second largest island of the Palmer Archipelago within the British Antarctic Territory, lying between Anvers Island and Liège Island. Brabant Island is located at . Brabant Island is long in a north-south direction, wide, and rises to in Mount Parry...
to the northwest by Gerlache Strait
Gerlache Strait
Gerlache Strait or De Gerlache Strait or Détroit de la Belgica is a channel/strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula. The Belgian Antarctic Expedition, under Lt. Adrien de Gerlache, explored the strait in January and February 1898, naming it for the expedition ship...
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The peninsula is named both by Argentina and Chile, in the latter case for J. Pefaur, biologist at the University of Concepción who worked on board the naval vessel Yelcho during the 1967-68 Chilean Antarctic Expedition.
Location
Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula is centred at 64°27′00"S 61°27′00"W. British mapping in 1978.Map
- British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.