Countess Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Countess Peninsula (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peninsula
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A rocky peninsula projecting from the ice in the northern part of the Bunger Hills. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) Named by USACAN after J Countess, air crewman on the Operation Highjump seaplane which landed on one of the lakes in the Bunger Hills in February, 1947. NOTE: It has the name Skalistyj, poluostrov in the Russian gazetteer.
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