Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

, extending northeastward for about 130 km (80.8 mi) from a line connecting Cape Kjellman

Cape Kjellman

Cape Kjellman is a cape marking the east side of the entrance to Charcot Bay, on the west side of Trinity Peninsula. First charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Nordenskjold, and named by him probably for Professor Frans Reinhold Kjellman, Swedish botanist....

 and Cape Longing

Cape Longing

Cape Longing is a rocky cape on the east coast of Graham Land, forming the south end of a large ice-covered promontory which marks the west side of the south entrance to Prince Gustav Channel...

. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names (Trinity Land, Palmer Land, Land of Louis Philippe) for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some historical merit. The recommended name derives from "Trinity Land" given by Edward Bransfield

Edward Bransfield

Edward Bransfield was a master of the British Royal Navy and considered the discoverer of the continent of Antarctica.-Early life:...

 during January 1820 (for the Trinity Board), although the precise application by him has not been identified with certainty and is a matter of different interpretation by Antarctic historians.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

External links

• Composite Gazetteer of Antarctia – ID 14958: Trinity Peninsula