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Hall Peninsula, Snow Island

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Location of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Hall Peninsula is a small ice-free peninsula on the southeast coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature is scissors shaped with its north and south arms extending 800 m including Cacho Island and 750 m including Ogygia Island respectively, with Ivaylo Cove lying in between. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.[1]

The peninsula is named after Captain Basil Hall, RN (1788–1844), a name originally applied by James Weddell to Snow Island.

Location

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The peninsula is centred at 62°46′04.7″S 61°14′36.3″W / 62.767972°S 61.243417°W / -62.767972; -61.243417 which is 12.48 km northeast of Cape Conway and 5.08 km south-southwest of President Head (British mapping in 1825 and 1968, and Bulgarian in 2009).

Map

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  • L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

Notes

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  1. ^ L. Ivanov. General Geography and History of Livingston Island. In: Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28.

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