Jacobs Peninsula

Jacobs Peninsula

Jacobs Peninsula (coord|81|52|S|162|39|E|) is a massive cove, 5 miles (8 km) long and 3 miles (4.8 km) wide, extending east from Nash Range into Ross Ice Shelf. The peninsula rises to over 800 m and is ice covered except for fringing spurs, as at Cape May, the northeast extremity. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Stanley S. Jacobs, oceanographer, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, who made physical/chemical observations in the Southern Ocean including the Ross Sea area, 1963-2000.


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