Sobral Peninsula [SEP] continent
Sobral Peninsula
Sobral Peninsula () is a high and mainly ice-covered peninsula projecting from Nordenskjöld Coast in northern Graham Land, Antarctica. The feature is 11 nautical miles (20 km) long and 5 nautical miles (9 km) wide and projects southward between Larsen Inlet to the east and Mundraga Bay to the west. The name was applied by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) (1963) and derives from Cape Sobral at the south end of this peninsula.
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Cretaceous to the Eocene. Successively younger rock formations found on the island are the López de Bertodano Formation (Cretaceous to early Paleocene) Sobral Formation and Cross Valley Formation (Paleocene) and La Meseta Formation (Eocene). Seymour Island has been referred to as the Rosetta Stone of Antarctic palaeontology, due to the unparalleled insight it provides into the geological and palaeontological history of the continent.
In December 1892 when Norwegian Captain, Carl Anton Larsen landed his ship, the "Jason", on Seymour Island, he returned with