Greene Peninsula

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Greene Peninsula (54°21′S, 36°26′W) is a mountainous cove between Moraine Fjord and Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1979 after Stanley Wilson Greene, British bryologist working in South Georgia from 1960; with British Antarctic Survey (BAS), 1969-74, and the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Penicuik, from 1974.

This article incorporates text from Greene Peninsula, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.