The Whitmer Peninsula (75°50′S 162°45′E / 75.833°S 162.750°E / -75.833; 162.750) is a broad ice-capped peninsula, about 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) long and wide, between Cheetham Ice Tongue and Harbord Glacier Tongue on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

It enters the Ross Sea south of Whitmer Peninsula where it forms Harbord Glacier Tongue.

Named by US-ACAN for James W. Starr, United States Navy, steelworker at McMurdo Station, 1966 and 1967 summer seasons.

Named by US-ACAN for Kenneth L. Varney, United States Navy, Equipment Operator at McMurdo Station during the 1965-66 and 1966-67 summer seasons.

First charted by the British Antarctic Expedition under Shackleton, 1907-09, at which time it extended about 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) into the Ross Sea.

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