[1] Download coordinates as: The Smith Peninsula is in southeast Palmer Land, on the Lassiter Coast of the Weddell Sea.

[2] The Smith Peninsula was photographed from the air in December 1940 by members of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (USAS), and in 1947 by members of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) under Finn Ronne, who in conjunction with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) charted it from the ground.

[3] A 292 hectares (720 acres) site on fast ice in the northern part of Clarke Bay has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of about 4,000 emperor penguins, estimated from 2009 satellite imagery.

Discovered by members of the USAS in a flight from East Base on December 30, 1940, and named for Nantucket Island, MA, home of early New England whalers of the first half of the 19th century.

A glacier flowing in a southeast direction along the north side of Mount Owen to the head of Nantucket Inlet.

of Terrestrial Magnetism at Carnegie Institute, Washington, DC, in recognition of his contributions to the planning of the geophysical program and the working up of the results for the expedition.