Dreary Isthmus
The Brown Peninsula is a nearly ice-free peninsula, 10 nautical miles long and 4 nautical miles wide, which rises above the Ross Ice Shelf northward of Mount Discovery, to which it is connected by a low isthmus.Dreary Isthmus
- Type: Locality
- Description: isthmus in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-78.2° or 78° 12′ south
Longitude
165.28333° or 165° 17′ east
Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)
Open location code
2VH7Q7XM+X8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=isthmus
OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Dreary Isthmus” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dreary Isthmus”
- German: “Dreary Isthmus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dreary Isthmus”
- Portuguese: “Istmo Dreary”
- Swedish: “Dreary Isthmus”
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