Krylov Peninsula
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Krylov Peninsula is an ice-covered peninsula
west of Lauritzen Bay
on Oates Coast
. Photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition
(1957–58), and ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
) (1959); named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition after Soviet mathematician and academic naval architect Alexei Krylov
(1863–1945).
Peninsula
A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic and Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands"....
west of Lauritzen Bay
Lauritzen Bay
Lauritzen Bay is a bay about 12 nautical miles wide, occupied by bay ice and ice shell, indenting the coast between Cape Yevgenov and Coombes Ridge. The Matusevich Glacier Tongue joins Coombes Ridge in forming the west side of the bay. It was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation...
on Oates Coast
Oates Coast
Oates Coast is that portion of the coast of Antarctica between Cape Hudson and Cape Williams. It forms the coast of Oates Land, part of the Australian claim to the Antarctic. The eastern portion of this coast was discovered in February 1911 by Lieutenant Harry Pennell, Royal Navy, commander of the...
. Photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition
Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Soviet Antarctic Expedition was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the Soviet Committee on Antarctic Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR....
(1957–58), and ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division .-The ANARE Name:...
) (1959); named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition after Soviet mathematician and academic naval architect Alexei Krylov
Alexei Krylov
Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov was a Russian naval engineer, applied mathematician and memoirist.-Biography:Alexei Nikolaevich Krylov was born on August 3 O.S., 1863 to the family of an Army Artillery officer in a village Akhmatovo near town Alatyr of the Simbirsk Gubernia in Russia...
(1863–1945).