Merz Peninsula () is an irregular, ice-covered peninsula, about long in an east–west direction and averaging wide, between Hilton Inlet and

Violante Inlet Violante Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet long, in an east–west direction, and wide, lying between Cape Fanning and Cape Herdman along the east coast of Palmer Land. Discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by members of the U ...

on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by the

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; during 1947 it was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition under Finn Ronne, who in conjunction with the

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(FIDS) charted it from the ground. The peninsula was named by the FIDS for Alfred Merz, a noted Austrian

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and the original leader of the German expedition in the ''

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'', 1925–26.

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Peninsulas of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub