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{{Short description|Ice-covered peninsula forming the south side of Peacock Sound, Antarctica}}
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'''King Peninsula''' ({{Coord|73|12|S|101|00|W|source:GNIS|name=King Peninsula}}) is an ice-covered peninsula, {{Convert|100|nmi}} long and {{Convert|20|nmi}} wide, lying south of [[Thurston Island]] and forming the south side of [[Peacock Sound]], Antarctica.
It projects from the continental ice sheet and trends west between the [[Abbot Ice Shelf]] and
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Ferrerro Bay and the Cosgrove Ice Shelf are to the south.
Burke Island is in the sea to the west. The Waite Islands are off Cape Waite, the northwest extremity of the peninsula.
Marelli Glacier drains northeast from the peninsula into the Abbot Ice Shelf.{{sfn|Thurston Island to Jones USGS}}
==Mapping and name==
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===Cosgrove Ice Shelf===
{{coord|73|32|S|100|45|W}}.
An ice shelf {{convert|35|nmi}} long and {{convert|25|nmi}} wide, occupying the inner (east) part of the embayment between King Peninsula and [[Canisteo Peninsula]].
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===Ferrero Bay===
{{coord|73|28|S|102|30|W}}.
A body of water about {{convert|15|nmi}} wide, lying immediately west of Cosgrove Ice Shelf and occupying the outer (west) part of the embayment between King and Canisteo Peninsulas.
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===Early Islands===
{{coord|73|40|S|101|40|W}}.
Group of small islands lying just west of Cosgrove Ice Shelf in the southeast corner of Ferrero Bay, Amundsen Sea.
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===Burke Island===
{{coord|73|08|S|105|06|W}}.
An ice-covered island about {{convert|16|nmi}} long and {{convert|6|nmi}} wide, lying {{convert|37|nmi}} southwest of Cape Waite, King Peninsula.
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===Waite Islands===
{{coord|72|44|S|103|40|W}}.
A group of small islands in Amundsen Sea, lying {{convert|6|nmi}} west of Cape Waite, the northwest extremity of King Peninsula.
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===Cape Waite===
{{coord|72|44|S|103|16|W}}.
Cape at the northwest extremity of King Peninsula, marking the southwest side of the entrance to Peacock Sound.
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