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[[File:Smythe-Shoulder.jpg|350px|thumb|Map of the eastern section of the Martin Peninsula showing Smythe Shoulder highlighted]]
'''Smythe Shoulder''' (74°18′S 113°53′W) is an [[ice]]-covered promontory rising to about 450 meters between Singer Glacier and Rydelek Icefalls on the [[Martin Peninsula]] along the [[Walgreen Coast]] of [[Westarctica]].

==Discovery and name==
Smythe Shoulder was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and [[U.S. Navy]] aerial photographs, 1959–67, and U.S. Landsat imagery, 1972-73. The shoulder was named by the Advisory Committee on [[Antarctic]] Names in 1977 after William Smythe, a geophysicist from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a member of the United States Antarctic Research Program winter party at the [[Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station|South Pole Station]] in 1975.

==Peerage title==
On 17 January 2019, Ralf Biester was granted the [[Peerage of Westarctica|peerage title]] Viscount Smythe, so-named for this feature, in recognition of his support of Westarctica.

[[Category: Geography of Westarctica]]

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