Smythe shoulder

	Smythe shoulder
	; Topographic map of the Martin Peninsula with the Smythe Shoulder (right of center)
	Geographical location
Coordinates	74 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 113 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 74 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 113 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ W
location	Walgreen Coast , Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Waters 1	Dotson Ice Shelf
Waters 2	Singer Glacier
Waters 3	Rydelek ice falls

The Smythe Shoulder is an icy peninsula up to 450 m high on the Walgreen coast of Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . On the east side of the Martin Peninsula , it protrudes into the Dotson Ice Shelf between the Singer Glacier and the Rydelek Icefalls .

The United States Geological Survey mapped them using the United States Navy's own surveys and aerial photographs from 1959 to 1967 and Landsat photographs from 1973 to 1973. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1977 after the geophysicist William Smythe von of the University of California, Los Angeles , who heard about the occupation of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1975 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program .

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