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Jacobs Peninsula is a massive peninsula, 5 miles (8 km) long and 3 miles (5 km) wide, extending east from Nash Range into the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. The peninsula rises to over 800 metres (2,600 ft) and is ice-covered except for fringing spurs, as at Cape May, the northeastern extremity. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Stanley S. Jacobs, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, who made physical/chemical observations in the Southern Ocean, including the Ross Sea area, between 1963 and 2000.[1]

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Jacobs Peninsula". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)

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[de] Jacobs-Halbinsel

Die Jacobs-Halbinsel ist eine wuchtige Halbinsel an der Shackleton-Küste der antarktischen Ross Dependency. Sie ragt östlich der Nash Range in das Ross-Schelfeis hinein. Die Halbinsel ragt bis zu 800 m hoch auf und ist abgesehen wenigen Bereichen am nordöstlichen Ausläufer, wie zum Beispiel das Kap May, von Eis bedeckt.

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- [en] Jacobs Peninsula

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