Merz Peninsula

	Merz Peninsula
	Geographical location
Coordinates	72 ° 19 ′ S , 61 ° 4 ′ W Coordinates: 72 ° 19 ′ S , 61 ° 4 ′ W
location	Black Coast , Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Waters 1	Weddell Sea
Waters 2	Hilton Inlet
Waters 3	Violante Inlet
Waters 4	Desolate inlet
length	24 km
width	40 km

The Merz Peninsula is an icy, irregularly shaped, 24 km long and an average of 40 km wide peninsula on the Black Coast in the east of the West Antarctic Palmerland . It juts out into the Weddell Sea between Hilton Inlet and Violante Inlet .

It was discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). Further aerial photographs were taken in 1947 during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , whose participants also carried out on-site measurements in cooperation with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The FIDS named the peninsula after the Austro-German oceanographer Alfred Merz (1880–1925), head of the German Atlantic Expedition (1925–1927).

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