Hurd Peninsula

Hurd Peninsula

Hurd Peninsula (coord|62|41|S|60|23|W|) is the land between South Bay and False Bay on the south coast of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1961 for Capt. Thomas Hurd, RN, second Hydrographer to the British Admiralty, 1808-23, who instituted a regular system of nautical surveys, and under whose authority Lt. Edward Bransfield's 1820 survey of the Bransfield Strait area was published in November 1822.

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* L.L. Ivanov et al, (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map, Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005


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