Sladun Peninsula
  Sladun Peninsula | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Hughes Bay, Gerlache Strait |
| Coordinates | 64°11′00″S 60°54′10″W / 64.18333°S 60.90278°W |
Sladun Peninsula (64°11′00″S 60°54′10″W / 64.18333°S 60.90278°W) is the predominantly ice-covered 4.58 kilometres (2.85 mi) wide peninsula projecting from Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula 5.2 kilometres (3.2 mi) into Gerlache Strait south of Cierva Cove and north of Duarte Cove. It ends in Cierva Point and Sucia Point to the west. The feature is named after the settlement of Sladun in Southern Bulgaria.[1]
Location[edit]
The peninsula extends into Hughes Bay, on the Gerlache Strait, which borders the Danco Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, in Graham Land. [2] The Chavdar Peninsula is to the north and the Relyovo Peninsula is to the south. The Sikorsky Glacier flows past the south of the peninsula to enter Duarte Cove. The Breguet Glacier flows past the north of the peninsula to enter Cierva Cove. The Argentine Base Primavera is on the tip of the peninsula.
Important Bird Area[edit]
The Cierva Point and offshore islands Important Bird Area is on the northwest extremity of the peninsula. It has the same extent as Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 134. This includes Cierva Point in the northwest of the peninsula as well as Apéndice Island (Sterneck Island), Midas Island and Moss Islands. It holds a colony of South polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki).[3]
Features[edit]
Features, and nearby features, include
Breguet Glacier[edit]
64°10′S 60°48′W / 64.167°S 60.800°W. Glacier flowing into Cierva Cove south of Gregory Glacier. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Louis Charles Breguet (1880-1955) and Jacques Breguet (1881-1939), French aircraft designers who built and flew the first helicopter to carry a man, in vertical flight.[4]
Cierva Cove[edit]
64°09′S 60°53′W / 64.150°S 60.883°W. Cove lying 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) southeast of Cape Sterneck in Hughes Bay. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1950. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Juan de la Cierva (1895-1936), Spanish designer of the autogiro, the first successful rotating wing aircraft in 1923.[5]
Cierva Point[edit]
64°09′00″S 60°58′00″W / 64.15000°S 60.96667°W. The south entrance point of Cierva Cove, "Refugio Primavera" [spring refuge] was established on the point by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition (AAE) on 23 January 1954. The AAE, 1976-77, established a new "Base Primavera" on the point which was officially opened on 8 March 1977. The point and nearby islands were designated SSSI No.15 under the Antarctic Treaty, and redesignated as ASPA No.134 in 2002.[6]
Apéndice Island[edit]
64°11′S 61°02′W / 64.183°S 61.033°W. Island lying northwest of Charles Point in Hughes Bay. The name appears on an Argentine government chart of 1957.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ Sladun Peninsula SCAR.
- ^ Graham Land and South Shetland BAS.
- ^ Cierva Point ... Birdlife.
- ^ Alberts 1995, p. 91.
- ^ Alberts 1995, p. 136.
- ^ Cierva Point SCAR.
- ^ Alberts 1995, p. 24.
Sources[edit]
- Alberts, Fred G., ed. (1995), Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF) (2 ed.), United States Board on Geographic Names, retrieved 2023-12-03
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Board on Geographic Names. - "Cierva Point", Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
- Cierva Point and offshore islands, Birdlife International, retrieved 2024-05-20
- Graham Land and South Shetland Islands, BAS: British Antarctic Survey, 2005, retrieved 2024-05-03
- "Sladun Peninsula", Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
