COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

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.

Ice-covered, "dog-legged" peninsula 25 mi long and 10 mi wide, extending in an easterly direction between Keller and Nantucket Inlets on the E coast of Palmer Land. The peninsula was photographed from the air in December 1940 by members of the USAS, and in 1947 by members of the RARE under Ronne, who in conjunction with the FIDS charted it from the ground. Named by Ronne for Walter Smith, ship's mate, navigator, and trail man with Ronne's expedition.

Denominado así por Ronne, en honor a Walter Smith que formaba parte de su expedición. Península de cerca de 25 millas de largo 10 millas de ancho que se proyecta en dirección E al N de ensenada Nantucket en la costa E de la península Tierra de O'Higgins.