Spath Peninsula
| Spath Peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 20 '53 " S , 56 ° 56' 20" W | |
| location | Snow Hill Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters 1 | Weddell Sea | |
| Waters 2 | Admiralty Street | |
| Waters 3 | Picnic passage | |
The Spath Peninsula is a non-icy and 65 km long peninsula that forms the northeastern branch of Snow Hill Island in the Antarctic Weddell Sea .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1995 after the British paleontologist Leonard Spath (1882-1957), author of a paper on ammonites in the area of James Ross Island for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey .
Web links
- Spath Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spath Peninsula on geographic.org (English)