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Adelaide Island

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Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. [1]

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  1. 80 relations: Adelaide (disambiguation), Adelaide Island, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Alexander Island, Alexandra of Denmark, Andesite, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic Specially Protected Area, Antarctic Treaty System, Argentine Antarctica, Australia, Avian Island, Éleuthère Mascart, Basalt, Bellingshausen Sea, Breccia, British Antarctic Survey, British Antarctic Territory, British Graham Land expedition, Chile, Chilean Air Force, Chilean Antarctic Territory, Chilean Navy, Conglomerate (geology), Diabase, Dike (geology), Early Cretaceous, Ecosystem, Environmental issues, Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, Fellfield, Forearc, French Antarctic Expedition, Gabbro, Geological formation, Ginger Islands, Granodiorite, Hyaloclastite, Ice piedmont, Igneous intrusion, Ignimbrite, International Hydrographic Organization, Intrusive rock, Island, Ives Bank, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, John Biscoe, Late Jurassic, Laubeuf Fjord, Lava, ... Expand index (30 more) »

  2. Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
  3. Chilean Antarctic Territory
  4. Islands of Adelaide Island
  5. Islands of Antarctica

Adelaide (disambiguation)

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia.

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Adelaide Island

Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Adelaide Island and Adelaide Island are Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Argentine Antarctica, British Antarctic Territory, Chilean Antarctic Territory, islands of Adelaide Island and islands of Antarctica.

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Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (Adelaide Amelia Louise Theresa Caroline; 13 August 1792 – 2 December 1849) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Queen of Hanover from 26 June 1830 to 20 June 1837 as the wife of King William IV.

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Alexander Island

Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. Adelaide Island and Alexander Island are Argentine Antarctica, British Antarctic Territory, Chilean Antarctic Territory and islands of Antarctica.

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Alexandra of Denmark

Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 22 January 1901 to 6 May 1910 as the wife of Edward VII.

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Andesite

Andesite is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition.

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Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. Adelaide Island and Antarctic Peninsula are Argentine Antarctica, British Antarctic Territory and Chilean Antarctic Territory.

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Antarctic Specially Protected Area

An Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) is an area on the continent of Antarctica, or on nearby islands, which is protected by scientists and several different international bodies.

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Antarctic Treaty System

The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population.

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Argentine Antarctica

Argentine Antarctica (Antártida Argentina or) is an area on Antarctica claimed by Argentina as part of its national territory.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Avian Island

Avian Island is an island, long and high, lying close off the south tip of Adelaide Island, Antarctica. Adelaide Island and Avian Island are islands of Adelaide Island.

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Éleuthère Mascart

Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart (20 February 1837 – 24 August 1908) was a French physicist, a researcher in optics, electricity, magnetism, and meteorology.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Bellingshausen Sea

The Bellingshausen Sea is an area along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula between 57°18'W and 102°20'W, west of Alexander Island, east of Cape Flying Fish on Thurston Island, and south of Peter I Island (there the southern Vostokkysten).

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Breccia

Breccia is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.

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British Antarctic Survey

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. Adelaide Island and British Antarctic Survey are British Antarctic Territory.

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British Antarctic Territory

The British Antarctic Territory (BAT) is a sector of Antarctica claimed by the United Kingdom as one of its 14 British Overseas Territories, of which it is by far the largest by area.

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British Graham Land expedition

The British Graham Land expedition (BGLE) was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 and 1937.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Chilean Air Force

The Chilean Air Force (Fuerza Aérea de Chile (FACh) is the air force of Chile and branch of the Chilean military.

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Chilean Antarctic Territory

The Chilean Antarctic Territory, or Chilean Antarctica (Spanish: Territorio Chileno Antártico, Antártica Chilena), is a part of West Antarctica and nearby islands claimed by Chile.

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Chilean Navy

The Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile) is the naval warfare service branch of the Chilean Armed Forces.

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Conglomerate (geology)

Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts.

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Diabase

Diabase, also called dolerite or microgabbro, is a mafic, holocrystalline, subvolcanic rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro.

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Dike (geology)

In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Environmental issues

Environmental issues are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems.

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Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition

The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and the Antarctic Peninsula which took place in the 1955–56 and 1956–57 southern summers. Adelaide Island and Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition are British Antarctic Territory.

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Fellfield

A fellfield or fell field comprises the environment of a slope, usually alpine or tundra, where the dynamics of frost (freeze and thaw cycles) and of wind give rise to characteristic plant forms in scree interstices.

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Forearc

Forearc is a plate tectonic term referring to a region in a subduction zone between an oceanic trench and the associated volcanic arc.

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French Antarctic Expedition

The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica.

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Gabbro

Gabbro is a phaneritic (coarse-grained), mafic intrusive igneous rock formed from the slow cooling of magnesium-rich and iron-rich magma into a holocrystalline mass deep beneath the Earth's surface.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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Ginger Islands

The Ginger Islands are a group of islands lying west of Cape Alexandra, off the southern end of Adelaide Island, Antarctica. Adelaide Island and Ginger Islands are islands of Adelaide Island.

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Granodiorite

Granodiorite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock similar to granite, but containing more plagioclase feldspar than orthoclase feldspar.

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Hyaloclastite

Hyaloclastite is a volcanoclastic accumulation or breccia consisting of glass (from the Greek hyalus) fragments (clasts) formed by quench fragmentation of lava flow surfaces during submarine or subglacial extrusion.

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Ice piedmont

An ice piedmont consists of "Ice covering a coastal strip of low-lying land backed by mountains.".

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Igneous intrusion

In geology, an igneous intrusion (or intrusive body or simply intrusion) is a body of intrusive igneous rock that forms by crystallization of magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth.

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Ignimbrite

Ignimbrite is a type of volcanic rock, consisting of hardened tuff.

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International Hydrographic Organization

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) (French: Organisation hydrographique internationale) is an intergovernmental organisation representing hydrography.

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Intrusive rock

Intrusive rock is formed when magma penetrates existing rock, crystallizes, and solidifies underground to form intrusions, such as batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.

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Island

An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.

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Ives Bank

Ives Bank is a submarine bank with a least depth of in the Bellingshausen Sea.

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Jean-Baptiste Charcot

Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, (15 July 1867 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris – 16 September 1936 at sea (30 miles north-west of Reykjavik, Iceland), was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893).

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John Biscoe

John Biscoe (28 April 1794 – 1843) was an English mariner and explorer who commanded the first expedition known to have sighted the areas named Enderby Land and Graham Land along the coast of Antarctica.

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Late Jurassic

The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.

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Laubeuf Fjord

Laubeuf Fjord is a sound in Antarctica, long in a north-south direction and averaging wide, lying between the east-central portion of Adelaide Island and the southern part of Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land.

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Lava

Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.

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Léonie Islands

The Léonie Islands are a group of small islands lying in the entrance to Ryder Bay along the southeast side of Adelaide Island, Antarctica. Adelaide Island and Léonie Islands are islands of Adelaide Island.

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List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. Adelaide Island and list of Antarctic and subantarctic islands are islands of Antarctica.

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List of British royal consorts

A royal consort is the spouse of a reigning monarch.

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Marguerite Bay

Marguerite Bay or Margaret Bay is an extensive bay on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, which is bounded on the north by Adelaide Island and on the south by Wordie Ice Shelf, George VI Sound and Alexander Island.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.

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Mount Bodys

Mount Bodys is the easternmost mountain on Adelaide Island.

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Mount Gaudry

Mount Gaudry is a mountain, high, rising close southwest of Mount Barre and north-northwest of Mount Liotard in the southern part of Adelaide Island, Antarctica.

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Nunatak

A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge.

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Ocean bank

An ocean bank, sometimes referred to as a fishing bank or simply bank, is a part of the seabed that is shallow compared to its surrounding area, such as a shoal or the top of an underwater hill.

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Pebble

A pebble is a clast of rock with a particle size of based on the Udden-Wentworth scale of sedimentology.

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Penola (yacht)

The Penola, originally laid down in Finisterre, Brittany, was a fishing schooner named Alcyon, and was later acquired by John Rymill for the British Graham Land Expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula in 1934.

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Punta Arenas

Punta Arenas (historically known as Sandy Point in English) is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antarctica Chilena.

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Rhyolite

Rhyolite is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks.

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Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.

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Rothera Research Station

The Rothera Research Station is a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) base on the Antarctic Peninsula, located at Rothera Point, Adelaide Island. Adelaide Island and Rothera Research Station are Argentine Antarctica, British Antarctic Territory and Chilean Antarctic Territory.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Scientific control

A scientific control is an experiment or observation designed to minimize the effects of variables other than the independent variable (i.e. confounding variables).

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Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

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Teniente Luis Carvajal Villaroel Antarctic Base

The Teniente Luis Carvajal Villaroel Antarctic Base (Teniente Carvajal) is a seasonal Chilean Antarctic base on the south-west tip of Adelaide Island, in Graham Land off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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The Gullet

The Gullet is a narrow channel between the eastern extremity of Adelaide Island and the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, separating Hansen Island and Day Island and connecting the heads of Hanusse Bay and Laubeuf Fjord.

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Tickle Channel

Tickle Channel is a narrow channel in the south part of Hanusse Bay, from 1 to 3 nautical miles (6 km) wide and 5 nautical miles (9 km) long, extending northward from The Gullet and separating Hansen Island from the east extremity of Adelaide Island.

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Tuff

Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.

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Turbidite

A turbidite is the geologic deposit of a turbidity current, which is a type of amalgamation of fluidal and sediment gravity flow responsible for distributing vast amounts of clastic sediment into the deep ocean.

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UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI).

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.

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Volcanic arc

A volcanic arc (also known as a magmatic arc) is a belt of volcanoes formed above a subducting oceanic tectonic plate, with the belt arranged in an arc shape as seen from above.

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Volcaniclastics

Volcaniclastics are geologic materials composed of broken fragments (clasts) of volcanic rock.

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Wright Peninsula

Wright Peninsula is a peninsula on the east coast of Adelaide Island, Antarctica, lying between Stonehouse Bay to the north and Ryder Bay to the south.

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Year

A year is the time taken for astronomical objects to complete one orbit.

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See also

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen

Chilean Antarctic Territory

Islands of Adelaide Island

Islands of Antarctica

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_Island

Also known as Cape Adriasola, Cape Mascart, Cavalier Rock, Landauer Point, Mackay Point, Mothes Point, Rothera Point, Sorpresa Rock.

, Léonie Islands, List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, List of British royal consorts, Marguerite Bay, Mesozoic, Mount Bodys, Mount Gaudry, Nunatak, Ocean bank, Pebble, Penola (yacht), Punta Arenas, Rhyolite, Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, Rothera Research Station, Royal Navy, Sandstone, Scientific control, Southern Ocean, Teniente Luis Carvajal Villaroel Antarctic Base, The Gullet, Tickle Channel, Tuff, Turbidite, UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Volcanic arc, Volcaniclastics, Wright Peninsula, Year.