Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Pirie Peninsula

(Laurie Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 60° 42' S 44° 37' 59" W
extending NNW from N coast of Laurie Island between Jessie Bay and Browns Bay, and terminating in Cape Mabel, was roughly charted by Powell and Palmer in 1821; mapped by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition in 1903 and named Perie [sic] Peninsula after Dr John Hunter Harvey Pirie (1877-1965), medical officer and geologist on the expedition. The peninsula was further charted by Discovery Investigations in 1933.