Guangzhou Peninsula ( bg, полуостров Гуангжоу, poluostrov Guangzhou, ) is the mostly ice-free peninsula forming the west extremity of Nelson Island in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

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and ending up in

Harmony Point Harmony Point is a point which lies close west of Harmony Cove and forms both the south side of the entrance to Malak Sechko Cove and the western extremity of Guangzhou Peninsula and Nelson Island (South Shetland Islands), Nelson Island, in the S ...

. It is bounded by

Harmony Cove Harmony Cove () is a cove entered between Harmony Point and The Toe on the west side of Nelson Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It was named by American sealers in about 1820 after the sealing vessel ''Harmony'', under Captain ...

and Nelson Strait on the south and southwest, and Malak Sechko Cove and Golyam Sechko Cove in

Drake Passage The Drake Passage (referred to as Mar de Hoces Hoces Sea"in Spanish-speaking countries) is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn, Chile and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It connects the southwestern part of the Atla ...

on the northwest, extends 3.4 km in northeast–southwest direction and 2.7 km in southeast–northwest direction, and has a surface area of 5.02 km². The area was visited by early 19th century

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 180 ...

based at Harmony Cove.L. Ivanov
General Geography and History of Livingston Island.
In: ''Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis''. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28 Guangzhou Peninsula is part of both the

Antarctic Specially Protected Area An Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) is an area on the continent of Antarctica, or on nearby islands, which is protected by scientists and several different international bodies. The protected areas were established in 1961 under the Antarct ...

''Harmony Point (ASPA 133)''Antarctic Specially Protected Area No 133 (Harmony Point, Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands): Revised Management Plan.
Measure 7 (2012) ATCM XXXV - CEP XV. Hobart, 2012 and the

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''Harmony Point, Nelson Island''. The

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

refuge '' Gurruchaga'', set up on the peninsula's south coast in 1953,J.R. Bamio y R. Dárrichon
''Efemérides Navales: Investigación, selección y compilación''.
Buenos Aires: Armada Argentina, 2014. pág. 270 is used by summer field parties carrying out research in the area. A Chilean navigation

radio beacon In navigation, a radio beacon or radiobeacon is a kind of beacon, a device that marks a fixed location and allows direction-finding equipment to find relative bearing. But instead of employing visible light, radio beacons transmit electromagnet ...

is mounted at the westernmost extremity of Harmony Point. The feature is named after the

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city of

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

, then a major sealing hub along with

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

and

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for the nineteenth-century sealing industry of Antarctica, in association with other related names in the area.Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...

. (details in Bulgarian)

Location

Guangzhou Peninsula is centred at .Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

(basic data in English) British mapping of the area in 1822, 1968 and 2009, Argentine in 1957 and 1980, Chilean in 1971 and Uruguayan in 1986.

Maps

Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c.
from the exploration of the sloop ''Dove'' in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822

Scale 1:25000. Argentine Government Plan, 1957; with additions by HMS ''Endurance'', 1975
Livingston Island to King George Island.
Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968
South Shetland Islands.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 - W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968

Mapa hidrográfico a escala 1:500000 / 1:350000. Valparaíso: Instituto Hidrográfico de la Armada de Chile, 1971 * Islas Shetland del Sur de Isla 25 de Mayo a Isla Livingston. Mapa hidrográfico a escala 1:200000. Buenos Aires: Servicio de Hidrografía Naval de la Armada, 1980
Isla Nelson - Punta Armonía. Shetland del Sur.
Escala 1:5000. Servicio Geográfico Militar del Uruguay, 1986
South Shetland Islands: Greenwich, Robert and Nelson Islands.
Scale 1:100000. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2009
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

References

External links

Guangzhou Peninsula.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image Bulgaria and the Antarctic Peninsulas of the South Shetland Islands {{NelsonIsland-geo-stub