Name StatusApproved: NZGB Antarctic CommitteeFeaturePeninsulaNZ Gazette Reference2009 (77) p.1803DatumRSRGD2000GeoTag[1] PositionDescriptionA broad, ice-covered peninsula, partly in the Ross Dependency, about 22 km long between Cousens Bay and Matterson Inlet. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after Capt. M.W. Nicholson, USN, Chief of Staff to the US Antarctic Projects Officer, Operation Deepfreeze, 1964.