COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

W coast of Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, was roughly charted by nineteenth-century sealers and called descriptively Tableland (Goddard, chart [1821]). Table Land (BA, 1930, p. 60). The feature was recharted by DI in 1935 and named Flat Top Peninsula (Nelson and others, chart, 1935b; BA chart 1774, 9.vii.1948; APC, 1955, p.10; DOS 610 sheet W 62 58, 1968). Flat-Top Peninsula (Nelson and others, chart, 1935c; BA, 1942, p.40). Península Flat Top (Argentina. MM chart 104, 1949). The feature was incorrectly mapped as an island by FIDS from "Admiralty Bay" in 1949. Flat Top Island (Hattersley-Smith, 1951, p.72 and map p.69). Monte Plano [=flat mountain] (Chile. DNH chart L, 1951). Morro Plano [=flat hill] (Chile. DNH chart L, 1951; IHA, 1974, p.228). Península Morro Chato [translation of English name] (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.200; Pierrou, 1970, p.533). The peninsula was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS, 1956-59. Península Morro Plano (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.81; IHA, 1974, p.204). Morro Chato Flat Top) Peninsula (Schauer and Fourcade, 1964, p.487). Mys Zherlovyy [=cape crater] (Grikurov and Polyakov, 1968, map p.18). Cape Zherlovyy (Grikurov and Polyakov, 1971, map p.190). Poluostrov Flet-Top (Govorukha and Simonov, 1973a, map p. 10). Skala Flet-Top (Simonov, 1975, map p. 130). Flat-Top Rock (Simonov, 1977, map p.224). Península Flat Top (Brazil. Península Fildes map, 1984).

Small, flat-topped peninsula 1 mi N of the SW extremity of King George Island, South Shetland Islands. The peninsula was named on a chart based upon a survey by DI personnel of the Discovery II during 1935.