Spath Peninsula (64°21′S 56°55′W) is an ice-free peninsula, 6.5 km long, forming the northeast extremity of Snow Hill Island. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1995 after Leonard Frank Spath (1882–1957), eminent UK paleontologist and author of a classic paper on ammonites from the James Ross Island area, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) Scientific Report No. 3.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Spath Peninsula" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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