Beethoven Peninsula

The Beethoven Peninsula is a deeply indented, ice-covered peninsula, 60 miles (100 km) long in a northeast–southwest direction and 60 miles (100 km) wide at its broadest part, forming the southwest part of Alexander Island, which lies off the southwestern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula. The south side of the peninsula is supported by the Bach Ice Shelf whilst the north side of the peninsula is supported by the Wilkins Ice Shelf. The Mendelssohn Inlet, the Brahms Inlet and the Verdi Inlet apparently intrude into it. The Bach Ice Shelf, Rossini Point and Berlioz Point are some distance away, on the Ronne Entrance from the Southern Ocean. Beethoven Peninsula is one of the eight peninsulas of Alexander Island.

1:250,000 scale topographic map of the Beethoven Peninsula.

The peninsula was first seen and photographed from the air in 1940 by the US Antarctic Service, which compiled the first rough map of southwest Alexander Island. It was resighted and photographed from the air by the 1947–48 Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), and remapped from RARE photos by Derek J.H. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music.

See also

• Derocher Peninsula
• Shostakovich Peninsula
• Monteverdi Peninsula

Further reading

• Smellie, J.L., Hole, M.J. & Nell, P.A.R., Late Miocene valley-confined subglacial volcanism in northern Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Bull Volcanol 55, 273–288 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00624355
• International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences 5th : 1987, Geological Evolution of Antarctica, Cambridge, England, P 523
• A. J. Cook and D. G. Vaughan, Overview of areal changes of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 50 year, The Cryosphere, 4, 77–98, 2010 www.the-cryosphere.net/4/77/2010/

Further reading

• Beethoven Peninsula on USGS website
• Beethoven Peninsula on SCAR website
• Beethoven Peninsula area map
• Beethoven Peninsula volcanic information
• Beethoven Peninsula current weather
  • Beethoven Peninsula updated long term weather forecast
• Beethoven Peninsula sunset/ sunrise moon set/moon rise times Archived 7 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine

References

• National Geographic Atlas of the World, 7th Edition.
•  This article incorporates public domain material from "Beethoven Peninsula". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.