Barison Peninsula is the mostly ice-covered peninsula projecting 19 km in northwest direction from Graham Coast

Graham Coast

Graham Coast is the portion of the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctic Peninsula, extending 172 km between Cape Bellue to the southwest and Cape Renard to the northeast....

 in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica. It is 12 km wide between Beascochea Bay

Beascochea Bay

Beascochea Bay is a bay, long and wide, indenting the Graham Coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, between Kiev Peninsula and Barison Peninsula, and entered south of Cape Perez...

 to the northeast and Leroux Bay

Leroux Bay

Leroux Bay is a bay 9 nautical miles long in a NW-SE direction and averaging 5 nautical miles wide, between Nunez Point and the narrow peninsula surmounted by Magnier Peaks, along the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Charcot for...

 to the southwest. The area was possibly visited by the 1897-99 Belgian

Belgium

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 expedition under Adrien de Gerlache

Adrien de Gerlache

Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery was an officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897 to 1899.-His early years:...

 and the 1903-05 French

France

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 expedition under Jean Charcot.

The peninsula was named by the 1973-74 Chilean Antarctic Expedition for Captain Eduardo Barison Roberts, commander of the expedition naval vessel Yelcho.

Location

Barison Peninsula is centred at 65°37′00"S 64°02′00"W. British mapping in 1971 and 1976.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1971.

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.