The feature rises to 1,670 metres (5,480 ft) in Bowditch Crests and includes Yule Peak, Mount Wilson, Campbell Crest, Vesconte Point, Wilson Pass, Rock Pile Peaks, Miyoda Cliff, and Rock Pile Point.

The United States Antarctic Service (USAS) explored this area from the ground, 1939–41, roughly positioning the peninsula.

However, reference to a geographic feature of this magnitude is needed, and in 1993 the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) recommended the peninsula be named after Peter F. Bermel (see also Bermel Escarpment), cartographer, United States Geological Survey (USGS), 1946-94; Assistant Director for Programs, USGS; Member, United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN), 1979-94 (Chairman, 1993–94).

This feature was photographed from the air and roughly positioned by USAS, 1939-41, which applied the descriptive name Rock Pile Point to the peninsula.

A cluster of peaks rising to 1,110 metres (3,640 ft) high between Wilson Pass and Rock Pile Point.

A glacier pass at about 400 metres (1,300 ft) high, running northwest–southeast between Bowditch Crests and Rock Pile Peaks.

A steep rock point on the south side of Bermel Peninsula, marking the extremity of a spur running southeast from the easternmost of the Bowditch Crests.

The point was first roughly mapped by W. L. G. Joerg from air photos taken by Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935; surveyed by FIDS, December 1958.

A peak rising to 1,670 metres (5,480 ft) high at the west end of Bowditch Crests, Bermel Peninsula.

Wilson, chief of staff to Lieutenant Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Office of Research and Development of the then Army Air Force, which furnished equipment for RARE.

A small but conspicuous triangular rock peak 750 metres (2,460 ft) high at the west end of the Bermel Peninsula.