Antarctic Peninsula

noun

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

Antarctic Peninsula

noun

1. Former name (until 1964): Palmer Peninsula. 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

Example Sentences

That is what an international team of particularly adventurous researchers did earlier this year in the remote Antarctic Peninsula, on a mission aiming to reveal centuries of scientific secrets about the Southern Ocean.

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

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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".

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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.

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

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