Jacobs Peninsula

Coordinates: 81°52′S 162°39′E / 81.867°S 162.650°E / -81.867; 162.650 Jacobs Peninsula is a massive peninsula, 5 miles (8 km) long and 3 miles (5 km) wide, extending east from Nash Range into the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. The peninsula rises to over 800 metres (2,600 ft) and is ice-covered except for fringing spurs, as at Cape May, the northeastern extremity. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Stanley S. Jacobs, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, who made physical/chemical observations in the Southern Ocean, including the Ross Sea area, between 1963 and 2000.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Jacobs Peninsula". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-07-13.

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