Derocher Peninsula () is a snow-covered peninsula between Brahms Inlet and Mendelssohn Inlet on the north side of

Beethoven Peninsula The Beethoven Peninsula is a deeply indented, ice-covered peninsula, long in a northeast–southwest direction and wide at its broadest part, forming the southwest part of Alexander Island, which lies off the southwestern portion of the Antarct ...

Alexander Island Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarc ...

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. It was photographed from the air by the

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, 1947–48, and mapped from these photographs by

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of the

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(FIDS), 1960. It was named by the

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after Commander Paul J. Derocher,

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, Antarctic Development Squadron Six (

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), May 1985 to May 1986. Derocher Peninsula is one of the eight peninsulas of Alexander Island.

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Peninsulas of Alexander Island {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub

See also

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