Battleship Promontory [SEP] continent
Battleship Promontory
Battleship Promontory () is a sandstone promontory which rises from the floor of Alatna Valley near its head, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The name was suggested by Parker Calkin, U.S. geologist who made stratigraphic studies in the valley in the 1960–61 season.
" promontory on Oronce Fine's world map, and indicates that the Dieppe Maps appear to have conflated Marco Polo's Greater Java with Fine's "Regio Patalis" and "Brasielie Regio". On the Dieppe Maps, the great promontory of (Greater Java) extends, like the "Regio Patalis," northward from the Austral continent. The evolution of Fine's into may have been influenced by the phrase used by Ludovico di Varthema, an Italian from Bologna who made a voyage in 1505 from Borneo to Java, who