The Spit (South Shetland Islands)

The Spit (61°29′S 55°30′W) is a shingle and boulder isthmus or spit, some 50 to 80 m long and 1 m above the level of high tide, connecting Furse Peninsula to the main part of Gibbs Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica.[1] It was charted by Discovery Investigations in January 1937 and named descriptively.[1]

References
  1. "The Spit". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2015-11-13.

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