Name details

Whitmer Peninsula

Whitmer Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Whitmer Peninsula  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139832

Feature type: Peninsula

Origin

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:

Narrative

A broad ice-capped peninsula, 18-12km wide north to south and 14km east to west, between Cheetham Ice Tongue and Harbord Glacier Tongue on the coast of Victoria Land.

Named For

Mapped by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1957-62. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant (j.g.) R.D. Whitmer, U.S. Navy (USN), who wintered over at Williams Field, McMurdo Sound, in 1956. He returned to Antarctica with U.S. Naval Construction Battalion units during Deep Freeze 1966 and 1967.

Location

Latitude:
75° 50' 00.0" S
-75.83333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
162° 45' 00.0" E
162.75000°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
298 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 16_35 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
14-Nov-1967

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