This page presents the geographical name data for
Tabarin Peninsula in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division
Feature Name
(see definition):
Tabarin Peninsula
Feature Class
(see definition):
Cape
Country Code
(see definition): AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID
(see definition):
14948
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
63° 32' 00" S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
057° 00' 00" W
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-63.5333333
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-57
Elevation
(see definition):
No data
Decision Year
(see definition):
01/01/1952
Description
(see definition):
Peninsula 15 mi long and 5 to 12 mi wide, lying S of the trough between Hope Bay and Duse Bay and forming the E extremity of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered and charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901-04, under Nordenskjold. It was mapped in 1946 by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and named after Operation Tabarin, the naval code name for the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from 1943 to 1945.
Date Created
(see definition):
No data
Date Edited
(see definition):
No data
NOTE: The information regarding
Tabarin Peninsula in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of
Tabarin Peninsula information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about
Tabarin Peninsula should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.