Piggott Peninsula

	Piggott Peninsula
	Geographical location
Coordinates	73 ° 43 ′ S , 61 ° 20 ′ W Coordinates: 73 ° 43 ′ S , 61 ° 20 ′ W
location	Lassiter Coast , Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Waters 1	New Bedford Inlet
Waters 2	Wright Inlet
length	50 km
width	50 km

The Piggott Peninsula is a wide and snow-capped peninsula on the Lassiter Coast of the Palmerland in the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between New Bedford Inlet in the north and Wright Inlet in the south. In the west it is bounded by the Bryan and Swann glaciers .

Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) first sighted them during an overflight on December 30, 1940 and made aerial photographs. The United States Geological Survey mapped them on the basis of the United States Navy's own surveys and aerial photographs from 1961 to 1967. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1985. It is named after the British ionospheric researcher William Roy Piggott (1914–2008), who worked for the British Antarctic Survey from 1973 to 1979 .

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