Pirie Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Pirie Peninsula (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peninsula
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
extending NNW from N coast of Laurie Island between Jessie Bay and Browns Bay, and terminating in Cape Mabel, was roughly charted by Powell and Palmer in 1821; mapped by SNAE in 1903 and named Perie [sic] Peninsula after Dr John Hunter Harvey Pirie (1877-1965), medical officer and geologist on the expedition (Bruce and others, chart, [1903c]). Pirie Peninsula (Bruce, 1905b, map facing p.322; BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.17). PenĂnsula Pirie (Argentina. IGM map 104, 1933; Pierrou, 1970, p.596). The peninsula was further charted by DI in 1933.
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