Ball Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Ball Peninsula (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peninsula (8)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
A broad ice-covered peninsula on the N side of Thurston Island. It extends into Murphy Inlet between Noville Peninsula and Edwards Peninsula. Named by US-ACAN after Lt. (jg) James L. Ball, PBM Mariner pilot in the Eastern Group of USN Operation Highjump, which obtained aerial photographs of this peninsula and adjacent coastal areas, 1946-47. Ball commanded the Jan. 11, 1947 search plane which, after 12 days of uncertainty, found the burned wreck and survivors of the Mariner crash on Noville Peninsula.
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