Phelps Promontory

Location of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Phelps Promontory (62°28′55″S 60°7′15″W / 62.48194°S 60.12083°W / -62.48194; -60.12083Coordinates: 62°28′55″S 60°7′15″W / 62.48194°S 60.12083°W / -62.48194; -60.12083) is a large ice piedmont promontory forming the north extremity of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica north of Zhelyava Hill. The promontory is fringed by several low-lying rocky headlands, and rises gently south to an altitude of about 180 m. Named after Edmond Malcolm Stuart Phelps (b. 1928), Master RRS John Biscoe, 1972-1991 (First Officer, 1966–72; Second Officer, 1964–66), who gave substantial assistance to Dr. J.L. Smellie and Dr. M.R.A. Thomson, British Antarctic Survey geologists with the field survey of this area, during the season 1974-75.

Maps

L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

Phelps Promontory. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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