Bermel Peninsula

The Bermel Peninsula is a rugged, mountainous peninsula 15 miles long and 7 miles wide on the Bowman coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It separates the Solberg Inlet in the north from the Mobiloil Inlet in the south. At the western end of the Bermel Peninsula is the 750 m high Yule Peak . The highest elevation on the peninsula is the Bowditch Crests with up to 1670 m .

The peninsula was on the flight routes of the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935. The aerial photographs made by Ellsworth were used in 1937 by the US geographer WLG Joerg for an initial mapping. Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) explored the area from the air and by sled excursion. The descriptive name made by the service in 1947 as Rock Pile Point in reference to the numerous mountain peaks on the peninsula was changed in 1993 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in the current form. It is named after Peter Frank Bermel (* 1927), cartographer of the United States Geological Survey and chairman of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names from 1993 to 1994.

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