Antarctic Peninsula

noun

1. a peninsula in western Antarctica, south of South America.

Antarctic Peninsula

noun

1. the largest peninsula of Antarctica, between the Weddell Sea and the Pacific: consists of Graham Land in the north and the Palmer Peninsula in the south Former name (until 1964)Palmer Peninsula

Example Sentences

“Even on the Antarctic Peninsula — this most extreme, remote and isolated ‘wilderness’ region — the landscape is changing, and these effects are visible from space.”

From Salon

As BBC News filmed with scientists in the Antarctic Peninsula, one whale used its four-metre-long fin to sweep a net of bubbles around its prey and trap them, known as "bubble-netting".

From BBC

In 2017, Thomas used a hand drill to extract several shallow ice cores from a series of relatively accessible islands near the Antarctic Peninsula to show that it could be done.

From Science Magazine

It also turned up on the South Georgia islands, about 1500 kilometers from the Antarctic Peninsula.

From Science Magazine

However, a widespread acceleration and unanchoring of ice shelves from pinning points began in the 1990s in the western Antarctic Peninsula and the Amundsen Sea.

From Science Daily