Feature Name (see definition): Joerg Peninsula

Feature Class (see definition): Cape

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 7559

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 68° 11' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 065° 10' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -68.1833333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -65.1666667

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1953

Description (see definition): Rugged, mountainous peninsula, 22 mi long in a NE-SW direction and from 3 to 10 mi wide, lying between Trail Inlet and Solberg Inlet on the Bowman Coast, Graham Land. The peninsula lies in the area explored from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935, and its S coast was mapped by W.L.G. Joerg from air photographs taken by Ellsworth; further mapped and photographed from the air by U.S. Antarctic Service (USAS) in 1940; surveyed by Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. Named by UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) after W.L.G. Joerg (1885-1952), American geographer, polar cartographer, and archivist, who made important contributions to Antarctic cartography, nomenclature and history; Chairman, U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) Special Committee on Antarctic Names, 1943-47; member of Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN), 1947-52.

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