Joerg Peninsula is a rugged, mountainous peninsula

Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic and Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands"....

, 22 nautical miles (41 km) long in a NE-SW direction and from 3 to 10 nautical miles (18 km) wide, lying between Trail Inlet

Trail Inlet

Trail Inlet is an ice-filled inlet which recedes southwest 15 nautical miles between Three Slice Nunatak and Cape Freeman, on the east coast of Graham Land. The inlet was sighted by Sir Hubert Wilkins on his flight of December 20, 1928. The width of Graham Land is reduced to 20 nautical miles ...

 and Solberg Inlet

Solberg Inlet

Solberg Inlet is an ice-filled inlet 5 to 10 nautical miles wide, which recedes west 14 nautical miles between Rock Pile Peaks and Joerg Peninsula, on the east coast of Graham Land...

 on the Bowman Coast

Bowman Coast

The Bowman Coast is the portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Northrop and Cape Agassiz. It was discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins in an aerial flight of December 20, 1928. It was named by Wilkins for Isaiah Bowman, then Director of the American Geographical Society....

, 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...

. The peninsula lies in the area explored from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth was an arctic explorer from the United States.-Birth:He was born on May 12, 1880 to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois...

 in 1935, and its south coast was mapped by W.L.G. Joerg from air photographs taken by Ellsworth; further mapped and photographed from the air by United States Antarctic Service (USAS) in 1940; surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after W.L.G. Joerg (1885–1952), American geographer, polar cartographer, and archivist, who made important contributions to Antarctic cartography, nomenclature and history; Chairman, USBGN Special Committee on Antarctic Names, 1943–47; member of Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

(US-ACAN), 1947-52.