Palmer Land () is the portion of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

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that lies south of a line joining

Cape Jeremy Cape Jeremy is a cape marking the east side of the north entrance to George VI Sound and the west end of a line dividing Graham Land and Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British Graham Land expedition, 1934–37, under John Riddoc ...

and

Cape Agassiz Cape Agassiz is the east tip of Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula, a narrow ice-drowned spur extending east from the main mountain axis of the Antarctic Peninsula between Mobiloil Inlet and Revelle Inlet. The cape is the east end of a line from Cape J ...

. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names and the

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, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of Antarctica, and the names

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee an ...

and Palmer Land for the northern and southern portions, respectively. The line dividing them is roughly 69° S.

Boundaries

In its southern extreme, the Antarctic Peninsula stretches west, with Palmer Land eventually bordering Ellsworth Land along the 80° W line of longitude. Palmer Land is bounded in the south by the ice-covered

Carlson Inlet Carlson Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet, long and wide, lying between Fletcher Ice Rise and Fowler Ice Rise in the southwest part of the Ronne Ice Shelf. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Ronald F. Carlso ...

, an arm of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, which crosses the 80° W line. This is the base of Cetus Hill. This feature is named after Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer who explored the Antarctic Peninsula area southward of

Deception Island Deception Island is an island in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbor, which is occasionally troubled by the underlying active volcano. This island is the caldera of an ac ...

in the sloop ''

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'' in November 1820.

Features

Mountain ranges and isolated peaks

* Briesemeister Peak * Carey Range *

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* Dana Mountains * Engel Peaks () * Mount Peterson * Mount Pitman * Mount Poster * Mount Southern * Mount Strong * Mount Sullivan * Pegasus Mountains * Mandolin Hills * O'Sullivan Peak * Renner Peak * Waitt Peaks

Nunatuks

*Aldebaran Rock (), a particularly conspicuous nunatak of bright red rock, located near the head of Bertram Glacier and northeast of Pegasus Mountains in western Palmer Land. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after

Aldebaran Aldebaran (Arabic: “The Follower”, "الدبران") is the brightest star in the zodiac constellation of Taurus. It has the Bayer designation α Tauri, which is Latinized to Alpha Tauri and abbreviated Alpha Tau or α Tau. Aldeba ...

, an orange-colored star that is the brightest in the

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of Taurus.

Other

* Cape Rymill * Rhino Rock * Scott Uplands

References