Reeves Peninsula

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Reeves Peninsula
Geographical location
Reeves Peninsula (Antarctica)
Reeves Peninsula
Coordinates 77 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 152 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 77 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 152 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  W
location Saunders Coast , Marie Byrd Land , East Antarctica
Waters 1 Sulzberger Bay
Waters 2 Dalton Glacier
Waters 3 Gerry Glacier

The Reeves Peninsula is a snow-covered peninsula on the Saunders coast of Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It is located on the north side of the Edward VII Peninsula and extends between the mouths of the Dalton and Gerry glaciers into Sulzberger Bay .

Participants in the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) by the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd explored this area from the air and roughly mapped it. The United States Geological Survey mapped the peninsula based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 at Byrd's suggestion after the American entrepreneur John M. Reeves (1887– 1976), who provided the first two of Byrd's Antarctic expeditions (1928–1930 and 1933–1935) with weatherproof clothing.

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