Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Stinear Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Stinear Peninsula (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peninsula
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A peninsula in the Larsemann Hills projecting out of the ice plateau into the sea with uniformly steep sides rising to a central spine.
Named after Bruce Stinear, Geologist at Davis in 1957. In that year he made the first geological examination of the Larsemann Hills. Stinear was also the geologist in the first year at Mawson in 1954.
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