Jacobs Peninsula
Coordinates: 81°52′S 162°39′E / 81.867°S 162.650°E Jacobs Peninsula is a massive peninsula, 5 miles (8 km) long and 3 miles (5 km) wide, extending east from Nash Range into the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. The peninsula rises to over 800 metres (2,600 ft) and is ice-covered except for fringing spurs, as at Cape May, the northeastern extremity. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after , an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, who made physical/chemical observations in the Southern Ocean, including the Ross Sea area, between 1963 and 2000.[1]
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- ^ "Jacobs Peninsula". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
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