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Northernmost tip of the Antarctic Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
is the northernmost part of the
Antarctic Peninsula
. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to
Cape Dubouzet
from an imaginary line connecting
Cape Kater
on the north-west coast and
Cape Longing
on the south-east coast.
Prime Head
is the northernmost point of this peninsula. Some 20 kilometers southeast of Prime Head is
Hope Bay
with the year-round Argentinian
Esperanza Base
.
History
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It was first sighted on 30 January 1820 by
Edward Bransfield
, Master,
Royal Navy
, immediately after his charting of the newly discovered
South Shetland Islands
nearby.
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In the century following the peninsula's discovery, chartmakers used various names (Trinity Land, Palmer Land, and Land of Louis Philippe) for this portion of it, each name having some historical merit. The recommended name derives from "Trinity Land", given by Bransfield during 1820 in likely recognition of the Corporation of
Trinity House
, Britain's historical
maritime pilotage
authority, although the precise application by him has not been identified with certainty and is a matter of different interpretation by Antarctic historians.
On 16 November 1820, nearly a year after the peninsula's discovery by Bransfield,
American
explorer
Nathaniel Palmer
and his crew become the first to land on the peninsula.
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- Trinity Peninsula.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut fur Angewandte Geodasie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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