Jacobs Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Jacobs Peninsula (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peninsula (8)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A massive peninsula, 10km long and 5km wide, extending east from Nash Range into Ross Ice Shelf. The peninsula rises to over 800m and is ice covered except for fringing spurs, as at Cape May, the north-east extremity. Named after Stanley'S Jacobs, oceanographer, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, who made physical/chemical observations in the Southern Ocean including the Ross Sea area, 1963-2000.
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