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Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula is the heavily glaciated peninsula projecting 11 km in northwest direction from Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Hughes Bay to the northeast and Charlotte Bay to the south, and separated from Brabant Island to the northwest by Gerlache Strait. At its northern extremity stand Valdivia Point.

The peninsula is named both by Argentina and Chile, in the latter case for Jaime E. Pefaur, biologist at the University of Chile who worked on board the naval vessel Yelcho during the 1967-68 Chilean Antarctic Expedition.

Location

Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula is centred at 64°27′00″S 61°27′00″W. British mapping in 1978.

Map

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.

References

• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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Die Pefaur-Halbinsel (spanisch Península Péfaur, in Argentinien Península Ventimiglia) ist eine Halbinsel an der Danco-Küste des Grahamlands auf der Antarktischen Halbinsel. Sie trennt die Hughes Bay im Norden von der Charlotte Bay im Süden

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