Pefaur Peninsula
peninsula in Antarctica
The Pefaur Peninsula (64°27′00″S 61°27′00″W), also called Península Ventimiglia, is a peninsula which constitutes the separation between Hughes Bay, to the north, and Charlotte Bay, to the south, on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Location
Pefaur Peninsula lies on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
The peninsula is bounded by Hughes Bay to the northeast and Charlotte Bay to the south, and is separated from Brabant Island to the northwest by the Gerlache Strait.
The Herbert Plateau is to the southeast.
Murray Island (Bluff Island) is to the north.
Valdivia Point stands at its northern extremity.
Name
Pefaur Peninsula is named for Jaime E. Pefaur, a biologist from the University of Chile, who carried out studies of edaphic mesofauna in Antarctica aboard the Yelcho during the Chilean Antarctic Expedition of 1967–1968.
Argentina calls it the Península Ventimiglia (Twenty Miles Peninsula).
Glaciers
Zimzelen Glacier
64°27′00″S 61°17′40″W
A 3.7 kilometres (2.3 mi) long and 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) wide glacier on the Pefaur Peninsula.
Situated east of Krapets Glacier and west of Blériot Glacier.
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