Pirie Peninsula
| Pirie Peninsula | ||
 Map of Laurie Island with the Pirie Peninsula (top center) |
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| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 41 ′ 59 ″ S , 44 ° 39 ′ 59 ″ W | |
| location | Laurie Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
| Waters 1 | Browns Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Jessie Bay | |
| length | 5 km | |
The Pirie Peninsula is a narrow and 5 km long peninsula on the north coast of Laurie Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It separates Jessie Bay in the west from Browns Bay in the east. Your northern end point is Cape Mabel .
Participants of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904) mapped the peninsula in 1903. Expedition leader William Speirs Bruce named it after James Hunter Harvey Pirie (1878-1965), surgeon and geologist on this expedition.
Web links
- Pirie Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pirie Peninsula on geographic.org (English)