Bowman Peninsula is a peninsula, 25 miles (40.2 km) long in a north-south direction and 15 miles (24.1 km) wide in its northern and central portions, lying between Nantucket Inlet

Nantucket Inlet

Nantucket Inlet is an ice-filled inlet 6 nautical miles wide, which recedes 13 nautical miles in a northwest direction between the Smith and Bowman Peninsulas, along the east coast of Palmer Land...

 and Gardner Inlet

Gardner Inlet

Gardner Inlet is a large, ice-filled inlet at the southwest side of Bowman Peninsula, on the east coast of Palmer Land. It was discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947–48, under Ronne, who named it for Irvine C...

 on the east coast of Palmer Land

Palmer Land

Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

. The peninsula is ice covered and narrows toward the south, terminating in Cape Adams

Cape Adams

Cape Adams is an abrupt rock scarp marking the south tip of Bowman Peninsula and forming the north side of the entrance to Gardner Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land in Antarctica. It was discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947–48, under Ronne, and named by him for Lt....

. It was discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition was an expedition from 1947-1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.-Background:...

, 1947–48, under Finn Ronne

Finn Ronne

Finn Ronne was a U.S. Antarctic explorer.-Background:Finn Ronne was born in Horten, in Vestfold county, Norway. His father, Martin Rønne , was a polar explorer and served in Roald Amundsen's successful expedition to the South Pole...

, who named it for Isaiah Bowman

Isaiah Bowman

Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. was an American geographer...

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