Hut Point Peninsula
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles wide and 15 nautical miles long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station and Scott Base are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mike Martoccia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crater Hill and Starr Lake.
Crater Hill
Volcano
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles wide and 15 nautical miles long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station and Scott Base are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula.
Starr Lake
Lake
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles wide and 15 nautical miles long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station and Scott Base are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula.
Twin Crater
Volcano
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles wide and 15 nautical miles long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station and Scott Base are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fortress Rocks and Scott Base.
Fortress Rocks
Locality
Photo: Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles wide and 15 nautical miles long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station and Scott Base are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula.
Scott Base
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research station at Pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim.
McMurdo Station
Town
Hut Point Peninsula
- Type: Locality
- Description: peninsula in Antarctica
- Category: peninsula
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.83334° or 77° 50′ southLongitude
166.75° or 166° 45′ eastOpen location code
2VJ85P8X+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 7666496153OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peninsulaOpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q1372609
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Hut Point Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شبه جزيرة هت بوينت”
- Azerbaijani: “Hat Point yarımadası”
- Catalan: “Hut Point”
- Cebuano: “Hut Point Peninsula”
- Chinese: “哈特角半島”
- Dutch: “Hut Point”
- French: “péninsule de Hut Point”
- French: “Péninsule de Hut Point”
- French: “péninsule des Quartiers d’hiver”
- French: “promontoire du Cap Armitage”
- German: “Hut-Point-Halbinsel”
- Hebrew: “האט פוינט”
- Hungarian: “Hut Point félsziget”
- Italian: “Penisola di Hut Point”
- Japanese: “ハットポイント半島”
- Latvian: “Hatpointa pussala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hut Point-halvøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hut Point Peninsula”
- Norwegian: “Hut Point-halvøya”
- Persian: “شبه جزیره هات پوینت”
- Persian: “شبهجزیره هات پوینت”
- Portuguese: “Península Hut Point”
- Russian: “Хат-Пойнт”
- Spanish: “Peninsula de Hut Point”
- Spanish: “Península de Hut Point”
- Swedish: “Hut Point Peninsula”
- Turkish: “Hut Point Yarımadası”
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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 Wikipedia page “Hut Point Peninsula”. Photo: Mike Martoccia, CC BY-SA 2.0.