Martin Peninsula

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File:C74112s5 Ant.Map Martin Peninsula.jpg
1:250,000 scale topographic map of the Martin Peninsula.

Martin Peninsula (Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.) is a peninsula about 96 km (60) mi long and 32 km (20 mi) wide that is ice covered except for a few rock outcrops along its margins, located between Getz Ice Shelf and Dotson Ice Shelf on the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The farthest point of the peninsula is Jacobsen Head.

Delineated from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump in January 1947. Named by US-ACAN after Col. Lawrence Martin, USA (Ret.), American geographer and authority on Antarctic exploration with the Library of Congress; member of US-SCAN, 1943-46.

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