Bjerkø Peninsula
Bjerkø Peninsula is a broad ice-covered peninsula of Antarctica, forming the west shore of MacKenzie Bay. Norwegian whalers explored this area in January and February 1931, naming the cape at the end of this peninsula for gunner Reidar Bjerkø of the whale catcher Bouvet II, from whose deck the coast was sketched on January 19.- Type: Cape
- Description: peninsula in Mac.Robertson Land, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Bjerko Peninsula”
Bjerkø Peninsula
- Categories: peninsula and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Bjerkø Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bjerkø Peninsula”
- Chinese: “布耶克半島”
- German: “Bjerkø-Halbinsel”
- Hebrew: “חצי האי ביירקה”
- Japanese: “ビェルコ半島”
- Japanese: “ビェルコ岬”
- Latvian: “Bjerkē pussala”
- Latvian: “Bjerkes pussala”
- Latvian: “Bjerkø Peninsula”
- Latvian: “Bjerkø”
- Latvian: “Bjerkøodden”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bjerkøodden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bjerkø Peninsula”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bjerkøodden”
- Swedish: “Bjerkø Peninsula”
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