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===Spaulding Peninsula=== {{coord|74|26|S|116|00|W}}. A low ice-covered peninsula west of Martin Peninsula, extending {{convert|7|nmi}} into Getz Ice Shelf between Brennan Inlet and Sweeny Inlet. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1959-67. Named by US-ACAN in 1977 after PRC Richard L. Spauiding, United States Navy, parachute-rescue team leader, Operation Deep Freeze 1977, during which, over South Pole Station, he made his 1,000th career jump. He made over 110 Antarctic jumps in his nine Deep Freeze seasonal deployments through 1977.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=699}}
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