Northern Graham Land and the surrounding islands. 1 Antarctic Peninsula, 2 James Ross Island, 3 D'Urville Island, 4 Joinville Island, 5 Dundee Island, 6 Snow Hill Island, 7 Vega Island, 8 Seymour Island, 9 Andersson Island, 10 Paulet Island, 11 Lockyer Island, 12 Eagle Island, 13 Jonassen Island, 14 Bransfield Island, 15 Astrolabe Island, 16 Tower IslandA 1944 stamp of the Falkland Islands overprinted for use in 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 and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in which the name "Antarctic Peninsula" was approved for the major peninsula of Antarctica, and the names Graham Land and Palmer Land for the northern and southern portions, respectively. The line dividing them is roughly 69 degrees south.
Graham Land is named after Sir James R. G. Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of John Biscoe's exploration of the west side of Graham Land in 1832.[1] It is claimed by Argentina (as part of Argentine Antarctica), Britain (as part of the British Antarctic Territory) and Chile (as part of the Chilean Antarctic Territory).
Graham Land is the closest part of Antarctica to South America.[2] Thus it is the usual destination for small ships taking paying visitors on Antarctic trips from South America.[3] (Larger ships are not allowed to disembark passengers.)
Until the discoveries of the British Graham Land Expedition of 1934–1937, it was generally supposed to be an archipelago rather than a peninsula.[4] The mountains of Graham Land are the last range of the American Cordillera, the almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges forming the western "backbone" of North America, Central America, South America and the Antarctic Peninsula.
Argentina calls the area Tierra de San Martín (Land of San Martin)[5] and also calls the northern peninsula (Trinity Peninsula) Península Trinidad or Tierra de la Trinidad. Similarly, Chile calls the entire Antarctic Peninsula Tierra de O'Higgins (Land of O'Higgins).[5]
^Stanton, William (1975). The Great United States Exploring Expedition. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 147. ISBN 0520025571.
^ESA Science & Technology: Graham Land
^"A cruise to Antarctica is a trip like no other". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2022-01-24.
^McGonigal, David (2009). Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent. London: Frances Lincoln Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7112-2980-8.
^ abАнтарктический полуостров, an article from Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
Following is a list of glaciers of GrahamLand in Antarctica. This list may not reflects recently named glaciers in GrahamLand. Aagaard Glacier Agalina Glacier...
The British GrahamLand expedition (BGLE) was a geophysical and exploration expedition to GrahamLand in Antarctica between 1934 and 1937. Under the leadership...
Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as GrahamLand in the United Kingdom and the Palmer...
James Ross Island and GrahamLand in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in James Ross Island and GrahamLand. Ball Glacier Coley...
Trinity Peninsula and GrahamLand in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in the Trinity Peninsula and GrahamLand. Aitkenhead Glacier...
Indiana Graham, Fountain County, Indiana Graham, Kentucky Graham, Missouri Graham, North Carolina Graham, Oklahoma Graham, Texas Graham, Washington Graham Land...
Archipelago and GrahamLand in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in the Palmer Archipelago and GrahamLand. Altimir Glacier...
January 1944. Bases were established on Deception Island, the coast of GrahamLand, and at Hope Bay. The research begun by Operation Tabarin continued in...
administered by the British as separate dependencies of the Falkland Islands: GrahamLand, the South Orkney Islands, and the South Shetland Islands. The United...
approved for the major peninsula of Antarctica, and the names GrahamLand and Palmer Land for the northern and southern portions, respectively. The line...
of glaciers of GrahamLand List of glaciers of Heard Island and McDonald Islands List of glaciers of James Ross Island and GrahamLand List of glaciers...
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the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound. Hope Bay is in GrahamLand on the north coast of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the...
Фурен, ‘Nos Furen’ \'nos 'fu-ren\) is the rocky point on Oscar II Coast, GrahamLand in Antarctica formed by an offshoot of Yordanov Nunatak, and situated...
Michael Majalahti Starbuck Cirque, Oates Land Starbuck Crater, Marie Byrd Land Starbuck Glacier, GrahamLand Starbuck Peak, on South Georgia Starbuck...
claim now that the World Trade Center property...is Islamic land." In September 2010, Graham stated on ABC's This Week with Christiane Amanpour that building...
largest of the islands lying in Wilhelmina Bay off the west coast of GrahamLand, Antarctica. Nansen Island is off the Danco Coast on the west side of...
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