Beethoven Peninsula
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The Beethoven Peninsula is deeply indented, ice-covered peninsula, 60 miles long in a northeast-southwest direction and 60 miles wide at its broadest part, forming the southwest part of Alexander Island, which lies off the southwestern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Mendelssohn Inlet, the Brahms Inlet and the Verdi Inlet apparently intrude into it. The Bach Ice Shelf, Rossini Point and Berlioz Point are some distance away, on the Ronne Entrance from the Southern Ocean.
The peninsula was first seen and photographed from the air in 1940 by the US Antarctic Service (USAS), which compiled the first rough map of southwest Alexander Island. it was resighted and photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48, and remapped from RARE photos by Searle of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Ludwig van Beethoven.
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- National Geographic Atlas of the World, 7th Edition.
Coordinates: This article incorporates text from Beethoven Peninsula, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
