ANTARCTIC PENINSULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Antarctic Peninsula mean? 

• ANTARCTIC PENINSULA (noun)
  The noun ANTARCTIC PENINSULA has 1 sense:

1. a large peninsula of Antarctica that extends some 1200 miles north toward South America; separates the Weddell Sea from the South Pacific

  Familiarity information: ANTARCTIC PENINSULA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTARCTIC PENINSULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large peninsula of Antarctica that extends some 1200 miles north toward South America; separates the Weddell Sea from the South Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Antarctic Peninsula; Palmer Peninsula

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

Holonyms ("Antarctic Peninsula" is a part of...):

Antarctic continent; Antarctica (an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep)

 Context examples 

Larsen C, a floating platform of glacial ice on the east side of the Antarctic Peninsula, is the fourth largest ice shelf ringing Earth’s southernmost continent.

(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)

The huge cavity is under the main trunk of the glacier on its western side - the side farther from the West Antarctic Peninsula.

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)

Located on the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, the Larsen B remnant is about 625 square miles (1,600 square kilometers) in area and about 1,640 feet (500 meters) thick at its thickest point.

(Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf Nearing Its Final Act, NASA)

The glaciers feeding Marguerite Bay, on the western Antarctic Peninsula, increased their rate of flow by 1,300 to 2,600 feet (400 to 800 meters) per year, probably in response to ocean warming.

(New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus, NASA)

The four glaciers are in Marguerite Bay on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula.

(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)

The results demonstrate a link between surface melting and the weakening of Antarctic ice shelves and support the idea that recent ice shelf breakup around the Antarctic Peninsula may have been triggered, at least in part, by large amounts of surface meltwater produced in response to atmospheric warming.

(Surface lakes cause Antarctic ice shelves to ‘flex’, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The combination of these two climate patterns was responsible for the northwesterly winds along the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula.

(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)

The study found that ice flow from West Antarctica — the Amundsen Sea sector, the Getz Ice Shelf and Marguerite Bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula — accounted for 89 percent of the increase.

(New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus, NASA)