Antarctic Peninsula

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

the Antarctic Peninsula

1. The northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica.

Translations

the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica

• Afrikaans: Antarktiese Skiereiland
• Arabic: شِبْه الْجَزِيرَة اَلْقُطْبِيّة اَلْجَنُوبِيَّة f (šibh al-jazīra al-quṭbiyya al-janūbiyya)
• Armenian: Անտարտիկական թերակղզի (Antartikakan tʻerakġzi)
• Azerbaijani: Antarktik yarımadası
• Basque: Antartikako penintsula
• Belarusian: Антарктычны паўвостраў m (Antarktyčny pawvóstraw)
• Bulgarian: Антарктически полуостров m (Antarktičeski poluostrov)
• Catalan: Península Antàrtica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南極半島 / 南极半岛 (Nánjí Bàndǎo)

• Czech: Antarktický poloostrov m
• Danish: Antarktiske halvø c
• Dutch: Antarctisch Schiereiland n
• Esperanto: Antarkta duoninsulo
• Estonian: Antarktika poolsaar (et)
• Finnish: Antarktiksen niemimaa
• French: Péninsule Antarctique f
• Galician: Península Antártica f
• Georgian: ანტარქტიდის ნახევარკუნძული (anṭarkṭidis naxevarḳunʒuli)
• German: Antarktische Halbinsel f
• Greek: Ανταρκτική Χερσόνησος m (Antarktikí Chersónisos)
• Hebrew: חצי האי האנטארקטי m (khatsí-hí-hantárqti)
• Hungarian: Antarktiszi-félsziget (hu)
• Indonesian: Semenanjung Antartika
• Irish: Leithinis Antartaice f
• Italian: Penisola Antartica f
• Japanese: 南極半島 (なんきょくはんとう, Nankyu-hantō)
• Korean: 남극반도 (Namgeukbando)
• Latvian: Antarktīdas pussala f
• Lithuanian: Antarktidos pusiasalis f
• Malay: Semenanjung Antartik
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Antarktishalvøya f

  Nynorsk: Den antarktiske halvøya f

• Persian: شبه‌جزیره جنوبگانی (šebe-jazire jonub-gâni)
• Polish: Półwysep Antarktyczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: Península Antártica f
• Romanian: Peninsula Antarctică f
• Russian: Антаркти́ческий полуо́стров m (Antarktíčeskij poluóstrov)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Антарктичко полуострво m

  Latin: Antarktičko poluostrovo m

• Slovak: Antarktický polostrov m
• Spanish: Península Antártica f
• Swedish: Antarktiska halvön c
• Thai: คาบสมุทรแอนตาร์กติก (kâap-sà-mùt ɛn-dtáak-dtìk)
• Turkish: Antarktika Yarımadası
• Ukrainian: Антарктичний півострів m (Antarktyčnyj pivostriv)
• Vietnamese: Bán đảo Nam Cực

Further reading

• “Antarctic Peninsula”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 34, column 1: “In 1964, by international agreement, the entire feature was called the Antarctic Peninsula.”
• Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Palmer Peninsula”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1418, column 2: “Also called Graham Land (especially by the British, who claim it as part of Falkland Isls. Dependencies) and Trinity Peninsula. Argentina and Chile (which calls it O'Higgins Land) also claim it.”