Jacobs Peninsula
| Jacobs Peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| location | Shackleton Coast , Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Waters 1 | Ross Ice Shelf , Ross Sea | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| width | 6 km | |
The Jacobs Peninsula is a massive peninsula on the Shackleton Coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It protrudes east of the Nash Range into the Ross Ice Shelf . The peninsula rises up to 800 m high and apart from a few areas on the northeastern foothills, such as Cape May , is covered by ice.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 2003 to the US oceanographer Stanley S. Jacobs of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University , who had carried out physical and chemical studies in the Southern Ocean, including the Ross Sea , between 1963 and 2000 .
Web links
- Jacobs Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jacobs Peninsula on geographic.org (English)