Daniell Peninsula is the large peninsula

Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic and Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands"....

 between Cape Daniell

Cape Daniell

Cape Daniell is a cape at the northeast extremity of Daniell Peninsula which marks the south side of the entrance to Tucker Inlet, in Victoria Land. Discovered, January 15, 1841, by Sir James Clark Ross who named it for Professor Daniell, chemist of King's College, Cambridge University, and...

 and Cape Jones

Cape Jones

Cape Jones is the cape lying immediately southeast of Mount Lubbock and marking the south tip of Daniell Peninsula, in Victoria Land. Discovered in January 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross who named it for Captain William Jones, RN....

 on the coast of Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. It is an elongated basalt dome similar to Adare and Hallett Peninsulas and rises to 2,000 meters. It is partly separated from the Victory Mountains

Victory Mountains

The Victory Mountains is a major group of mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long and wide, which is bounded primarily by Mariner and Tucker glaciers and the Ross Sea...

 by Whitehall Glacier

Whitehall Glacier

Whitehall Glacier is a large glacier flowing north into Tucker Inlet between Daniell Peninsula and the southeast part of the Victory Mountains, in Victoria Land...

, which is afloat in its lower reaches, but is joined to these mountains by the higher land in the vicinity of Mount Prior

Mount Prior

Mount Prior is a mountain about 10 nautical miles west of Mount Brewster, rising at the head of Whitehall Glacier in the west part of Daniell Peninsula, Victoria Land. Named by New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , 1957–58, for George T...

. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active in 1957-58 and again in 1958-59. The 1957-58 expedition went to the Ross Dependency and named the Borchgrevink Glacier...

(NZGSAE), 1957–58, after Cape Daniell, and by analogy with Adare and Hallett Peninsulas.