Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Canisteo Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Canisteo 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:
An ice-covered peninsula, about 30 mi long and 20 mi wide, which projects between Ferrero and Cranton Bays into the E extremity of Amundsen Sea. Delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump in December 1946. Named by US-ACAN for the USS Canisteo, a tanker with the eastern task group of this expedition.
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