Name details

Jacobs Peninsula

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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United States Gazetteer Id 136116

Feature type: Peninsula (8)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A massive peninsula, 5 mi long and 3 mi wide, extending E from Nash Range into Ross Ice Shelf. The peninsula rises to over 800 m and is ice covered except for fringing spurs, as at Cape May, the NE extremity. Named by US-ACAN 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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Location

Latitude:
81° 52' 00.0" S
-81.86667°
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Longitude:
162° 39' 00.0" E
162.65000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-2003

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