
Arrowsmith Peninsula
(Loubet Coast)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 67° 16' 20" S 67° 9' 35" W
W of Forel Glacier and Sharp Glacier, Loubet Coast, and facing Adelaide Island, was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, and then thought to be an island; mapped as a peninsula by the British Graham Land Expedition; surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Stonington Island' in 1948 and from 'Detaille Island' and 'Horseshoe Island', 1955-57, and confirmed as a peninsula; named after Sir Edwin Porter Arrowsmith (b. 1909), Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies, 1957-64, and High Commissioner for the British Antarctic Territory, 1962-64.