Yankin Palmer yanki ne dake yammacin gabar tekun Antarctic Peninsula. Sunan ta bayan Nathaniel Palmer, Ba'amurke ɗan sintirin da aka yi la'akari da gano Antarctica a cikin 1820. Yankin tsibirin ya shimfiɗa kudu zuwa kusan mil 120 (kilomita 190) daga tsibiran Shetland ta Kudu kuma ya zama gefen yamma na mashigar Gerlache. Wurin yana da tsaunuka masu kaushi, dusar ƙanƙara, da filayen ƙanƙara, kuma gida ne da namun daji iri-iri, da suka haɗa da penguins, like, da tsuntsayen teku.