Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Bailey Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bailey 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.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Rocky peninsula, 1.8 mi long and 1 mi wide, lying between Newcomb Bay and O'Brien Bay at the E side of the Windmill Islands. First mapped from USN Operation HighJump aerial photographs taken in February 1947 and thought to be an island connected by a steep snow ramp to the continental ice overlying Budd Coast. The term peninsula was considered more appropriate by the Wilkes Station party of 1957. Named by the US-ACAN for Cdr. Claude E. Bailey, USN, captain of the USS Henderson, destroyer escort of the western task group of USN Operation HighJump, Task Force 68, 1946-47.
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