Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Smith Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Smith 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:
between Keller Inlet and Nantucket Inlet, Lassiter Coast, terminating in Cape Fiske, was photographed from the air by USAS in December 1940 and by RARE, 21 November 1947; surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947. The feature was shown in outline on AGS map, 1948, on which map the name Cape Smitty was applied to the S entrance point of Nantucket Inlet, after Walter ("Smitty") Smith, mate and navigator in the RARE ship Port of Beaumont, and a member of the FIDS-RARE sledge party to the area. Cabo Smitty, referring to the S entrance point of Nantucket Inlet (Argentina. MM chart N-"P"-1, 1952). The name of Smith was later transferred to the peninsula. Smith Peninsula (BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.19; DOS 601 sheet W 74 60, 1957; USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1979; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). Península Smith (Argentina. MM chart 121, 1957; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.263). Poluostrov Smit (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The peninsula was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67.
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