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 a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Livingston Island and Villa Las Estrellas.
Livingston Island
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Livingston Island is one of the South Shetland Islands, about 120 km north of the Antarctic Peninsula. Extending 73 km east-west and 20-30 km north-south, it's the focus of Bulgarian exploration of the Antarctic.
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. It consists of some dozen prefabs but is a vital service hub for all the bases on the island.
South Shetland Islands
Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The South Shetland Islands are an archipelago 120 km north of the Antarctic Peninsula. They have a marine polar climate: very cold, but not as extremely cold as the mainland.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Esperanza Base and Port Lockroy.
Esperanza Base
Photo: Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Esperanza Base is an Argentine research base in Hope Bay at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Part of it is designated as Fortín Sargento Cabral, a year-round civilian settlement similar to the Chilean settlement of Villa Las Estrellas.
Port Lockroy
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Port Lockroy is a former British research base on little Goudier Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, now a visitor attraction. "Port Lockroy" is also the name of the natural harbour in which the island lies.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Antarctic Peninsula
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula
- Also known as: “Graham Land”, “O’Higgins Land”, “Palmer Peninsula”, and “Tierra de O’Higgins, Peninsula”
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude of center
-70° or 70° southLongitude of center
-65° or 65° westElevation
2,116 metres (6,942 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 5283727122
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Antarctic Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Antarktiese skiereiland”
- Afrikaans: “Antarktiese Skiereiland”
- 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”
- Esperanto: “Antarkta duoninsulo”
- Estonian: “Antarktika poolsaar”
- Finnish: “Antarktiksen niemimaa”
- Finnish: “Etelämantereen niemimaa”
- French: “péninsule Antarctique”
- French: “Péninsule Antarctique”
- French: “Terre d’O’Higgins”
- Galician: “Península Antártica”
- Georgian: “ანტარქტიდის ნახევარკუნძული”
- Georgian: “ანტარქტიკის ნახევარკუნძული”
- German: “Antarktische Halbinsel”
- Greek: “Ανταρκτική Χερσόνησος”
- Hebrew: “ארץ גרהאם”
- Hebrew: “חצי האי האנטארקטי”
- Hebrew: “חצי האי האנטרקטי”
- Hebrew: “חצי-האי האנטארקטי”
- 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: “Pālmera pussala”
- Latvian: “Península Antártica”
- Latvian: “Sanmartina Zeme”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Penisola de Antartica”
- Lithuanian: “Antarktidos pusiasalis”
- Macedonian: “Антарктички Полуостров”
- Malay: “Semenanjung Antartik”
- Malay: “Semenanjung Antartika”
- 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”
- Norwegian: “Antarktishalvøya”
- 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”
- Saraiki: “اِنٹارکٹیکا (ہک برِ اعظم)”
- Saraiki: “اِنٹارکٹیکا”
- Scots: “Antarctic Peninsula”
- Serbian: “Antarktičko poluostrvo”
- Serbian: “Антарктичко полуострво”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Antarktičko poluostrvo”
- Slovak: “Antarktický polostrov”
- Slovenian: “Antarktični polotok”
- Spanish: “Peninsula antartica”
- Spanish: “Peninsula Antártica”
- Spanish: “Península Antartica”
- Spanish: “Península Antártica”
- Spanish: “Peninsula Palmer”
- Spanish: “Península Palmer”
- Spanish: “Tierra de O’Higgins, Península”
- Spanish: “Tierra de O’Higgins”
- 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”
- Welsh: “Penrhyn yr Antarctig”
- Wu Chinese: “南极半岛”
- Yue Chinese: “南極半島”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Antarctic Peninsula”. Photo: Cascoly, CC BY-SA 3.0.