Shults Peninsula
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Shults Peninsula () is a bold, mainly ice-covered cove, 10 miles (16 km) long and 5 miles (8 km) wide, at the east side of the mouth of Skelton Glacier in Victoria Land. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and Navy air photos. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Captain Roy G. Shults, U.S. Navy, Chief of Staff to the Commander, U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, 1962 and 1963.
This article incorporates text from Shults 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.
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