Greene Peninsula

Greene Peninsula is a mountainous peninsula between Moraine Fjord and Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1979 after Stanley Wilson Greene, a British bryologist working in South Georgia from 1960; with the British Antarctic Survey, 1969–74, and the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Penicuik, from 1974.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Greene Peninsula". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-05-07.

Coordinates: 54°21′S 36°26′W / 54.350°S 36.433°W / -54.350; -36.433  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Greene Peninsula" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).


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