Peninsula
Antarctic Peninsula
The peninsula reaches 1,300 kilometres into the Southern Ocean, ice-covered and mountainous, in places under 500 metres of ice.
Source: science.nasa.gov
Some geologists think these mountains were joined to the Andes millions of years ago; an underwater ridge still runs from the peninsula’s tip towards Tierra del Fuego.
Source: science.nasa.gov
Find Antarctic Peninsula on the mapWhere it is
On the Atlas Quest map, the Antarctic Peninsula label sits at 70.9° S, 64.5° W, in the Southern and Western Hemispheres.
Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.
Nearby places
The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:
- Southern Ocean — about 1,900 km east
- Antarctica — about 2,800 km south-east
- South Atlantic Ocean — about 4,900 km north-east
- Desierto de Atacama — about 5,300 km north
Play with it
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