Jacobsen Head
Martin Peninsula is a peninsula about 60 nautical miles long and 20 nautical miles wide that is ice-covered except for a few rock outcrops along its margins, located between Getz Ice Shelf and Dotson Ice Shelf on the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.
Photo: USGS, Public domain.Jacobsen Head
- Type: Cape
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-74.03333° or 74° 2′ south
Longitude
-113.58333° or 113° 35′ west
Named after
Cdr. Glen Jacobsen
Open location code
25Q8XC88+MM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Jacobsen Head” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Jacobsen Head”
- Chinese: “雅科布森半島”
- Chinese: “雅科布森海岬”
- French: “cap Jacobsen”
- French: “Cap Jacobsen”
- German: “Jacobsen Head”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jacobsen Head”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jacobsen Head”
- Norwegian: “Jacobsen Head”
- Swedish: “Jacobsen Head”
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