Joerg Peninsula

Joerg Peninsula (68°11′S 65°10′W / 68.183°S 65.167°W / -68.183; -65.167) is a rugged, mountainous peninsula, 22 nautical miles (41 km) long in a northeast–southwest direction and from 3 to 10 nautical miles (6 to 19 km) wide, lying between Trail Inlet and Solberg Inlet on the Bowman Coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.

The peninsula lies in the area explored from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935, and its south coast was mapped by W.L.G.

The peninsula was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after W.L.G.

Joerg (1885–1952), who was an American geographer, polar cartographer, and archivist, and who made important contributions to Antarctic cartography, nomenclature and history.

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