'''King Peninsula''' ({{coor dmcoord|72|12|S|100|15|W|}}) is an ice-covered peninsula, 100 miles long and 20 miles wide, lying south of [[Thurston Island]] and forming the south side of [[Peacock Sound]]. It projects from the continental ice sheet and trends west between the [[Abbot Ice Shelf]] and [[Cosgrove Ice Shelf]] to terminate at [[Amundsen Sea]]. The feature was photographed from the air by USN [[Operation Highjump]], 1946-47, and was plotted from these photos as a long island, or possible peninsula. Photos taken by USN in 1966 show it is a peninsula.
King Peninsula was named by the [[Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names]] (US-ACAN) for Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, USN, Chief of Naval Operations from 1942-45, who approved the preliminary work for Operation Highjump.
