Pirie Peninsula
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Pirie Peninsula is a narrow peninsula
extending 3 nautical miles (6 km) northward from the center of Laurie Island
, in the South Orkney Islands
. The peninsula was surveyed in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
under Bruce, who named it for Dr. J.H. Pirie, surgeon and geologist of the expedition.
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"....
extending 3 nautical miles (6 km) northward from the center of Laurie Island
Laurie Island
Laurie Island is an island in the Antarctic Circle, the second largest of the South Orkney Islands. The island is claimed by both Argentina as part of Argentine Antarctica, and the United Kingdom as part of the British Antarctic Territory...
, in the South Orkney Islands
South Orkney Islands
The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. They have a total area of about ....
. The peninsula was surveyed in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition , 1902–04, was organised and led by William Speirs Bruce, a natural scientist and former medical student from the University of Edinburgh. Although overshadowed in prestige terms by Robert Falcon Scott's concurrent Discovery Expedition, the SNAE completed...
under Bruce, who named it for Dr. J.H. Pirie, surgeon and geologist of the expedition.