Hurd Peninsula is the land between South Bay and False Bay on the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The Spanish Antarctic base Juan Carlos I and the Bulgarian Antarctic base St. Kliment Ohridski are situated on the west coast of the peninsula.
The feature is named by the UK-APC in 1961 for Capt. Thomas Hurd, RN, second Hydrographer to the British Admiralty, 1808–23, who instituted a regular system of nautical surveys, and under whose authority Lt. Edward Bransfield's 1820 survey of the Bransfield Strait area was published in November 1822.
The midpoint of the peninsula is located at (Detailed Spanish mapping in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Hurd Peninsula" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
