Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula is the long mountainous peninsula projecting north from Antarctica. A long way north - its tip is about three times further away from the South Pole than it is from the South American mainland, some 1600 km away.| Tap on the map to travel |
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Photo: Cascoly, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Livingston Island
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Livingston Island is one of the South Shetland Islands, about 120 km north of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Villa Las Estrellas
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Villa Las Estrellas is a Chilean civilian settlement on King George Island, the largest of the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula.
South Shetland Islands
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The South Shetland Islands are an archipelago 120 km north of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Destinations
Esperanza Base
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Esperanza Base is an Argentine research base in Hope Bay at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Port Lockroy
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Port Lockroy is a former British research base on little Goudier Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, now a visitor attraction.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Antarctic Peninsula
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
-70° or 70° southLongitude of centre
-65° or 65° westElevation
2,116 metres (6,942 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 5283727122GeoNames ID
6632680Wikidata ID
Q185605Antarctic Peninsula Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Antarktiese Skiereiland
- Afrikaans: Antarktiese skiereiland
- Arabic: Rawis han Antartika
- Arabic: شبه الجزيرة القطبية الجنوبية
- Armenian: Անտարկտիկական թերակղզի
- Armenian: Անտարտիկական թերակղզի
- Asturian: Península Antártica
- Azerbaijani: Antarktida yarımadası
- Azerbaijani: Antarktik yarımadası
- Bashkir: Антарктика ярымутрауы
- Basque: Antartikako penintsula
- Basque: Penintsula antartikoa
- Belarusian: Антарктычны паўвостраў
- Bengali: অ্যান্টার্কটিক উপদ্বীপ
- Bosnian: Antarktičko poluostrvo
- Breton: Ledenez Antarktika
- Bulgarian: Антарктически полуостров
- Catalan: Península Antàrtica
- Catalan: península Antàrtica
- Chinese: 南极半岛
- Chinese: 南極半島
- Croatian: Antarktički poluotok
- Czech: Antarctic Peninsula
- Czech: Antarktický poloostrov
- Danish: Antarktiske halvø
- Dutch: Antarctisch Schiereiland
- Dutch: Palmerschiereiland
- English: Graham Land
- English: O'Higgins Land
- English: Palmer Peninsula
- Esperanto: Antarkta duoninsulo
- Estonian: Antarktika poolsaar
- Finnish: Antarktiksen niemimaa
- Finnish: Etelämantereen niemimaa
- French: Péninsule Antarctique
- French: Terre d'O'Higgins
- French: péninsule Antarctique
- Galician: Península Antártica
- Georgian: ანტარქტიდის ნახევარკუნძული
- German: Antarktische Halbinsel
- Greek: Ανταρκτική Χερσόνησος
- Hebrew: ארץ גרהאם
- Hebrew: חצי-האי האנטארקטי
- Hebrew: חצי האי האנטארקטי
- Hebrew: חצי האי האנטרקטי
- Hindi: अंटार्कटिक प्रायद्वीप
- Hungarian: Antarktiszi-félsziget
- Indonesian: Semenanjung Antarktika
- Irish: Leithinis Antartach
- Italian: Penisola Antartica
- Japanese: オヒギンズ・ランド
- Japanese: グレアムランド
- Japanese: 南極半島
- Kazakh: Antarktïda tübegi
- Kazakh: Антарктида түбегі
- Kazakh: انتاركتىيدا تۇبەگى
- Kirghiz: Антарктика жарым аралы
- Korean: 남극반도
- Latin: Paeninsula Antarctica
- Latvian: Antarctic Peninsula
- Latvian: Antarktīdas pussala
- Latvian: O'Higinsa Zeme
- Latvian: Palmer Peninsula
- Latvian: Península Antártica
- Latvian: Pālmera pussala
- Latvian: Sanmartina Zeme
- Lingua Franca Nova: Penisola de Antartica
- Lithuanian: Antarktidos pusiasalis
- Macedonian: Антарктички Полуостров
- Malay: Semenanjung Antartik
- Malay: Semenanjung Antartika
- Norwegian: Antarktishalvøya
- Norwegian Bokmål: Antarctic Peninsula
- Norwegian Bokmål: Antarktishalvøya
- Norwegian Bokmål: Antarktiske halvøy
- Norwegian Bokmål: Den antarktiske halvøy
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Antarctic Peninsula
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Antarktishalvøya
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Den antarktiske halvøya
- Occitan (post 1500): Peninsula Antartica
- Persian: شبهجزیره جنوبگان
- Persian: شبهجزیره جنوبگانی
- Polish: Półwysep Antarktyczny
- Portuguese: Península Antárctica
- Portuguese: Península Antártica
- Romanian: Peninsula Antarctică
- Russian: Антарктический полуостров
- Scots: Antarctic Peninsula
- Serbian: Antarktičko poluostrvo
- Serbian: Антарктичко полуострво
- Serbo-Croatian: Antarktičko poluostrvo
- Slovak: Antarktický polostrov
- Slovenian: Antarktični polotok
- Spanish: Peninsula Antártica
- Spanish: Peninsula Palmer
- Spanish: Peninsula antartica
- Spanish: Península Antartica
- Spanish: Península Antártica
- Spanish: Península Palmer
- Spanish: Tierra de O'Higgins
- Spanish: Tierra de O'Higgins, Península
- Spanish: Tierra de San Martin
- Spanish: Tierra de San Martín
- Swahili: Rasi ya Antaktiki
- Swedish: Antarktishalvön
- Swedish: Antarktiska halvön
- Tamil: அண்டார்ட்டிக்கா மூவலந்தீவு
- Tatar: Антарктика ярымутравы
- Thai: Antarctic Peninsula
- Thai: คาบสมุทรแอนตาร์กติก
- Thai: คาบสมุทรแอนตาร์กติกา
- Turkish: Antarktika Yarımadası
- Ukrainian: Антарктичний півострів
- Ukrainian: Земля Грейама
- Ukrainian: Земля О'Хіггінса
- Ukrainian: Земля Сан-Мартіна
- Ukrainian: Півострів Палмера
- Vietnamese: Bán đảo Nam Cực
- Waray (Philippines): Rawis han Antartika
- Wu Chinese: 南极半岛
- Yue Chinese: 南極半島
- Tierra de O'Higgins, Peninsula
- ანტარქტიკის ნახევარკუნძული
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