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)
Petersen, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Petersen (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cape (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:
A rounded ice-covered cape on the N side of Thurston Island, about 18 mi ENE of Cape Flying Fish. Delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump in December 1946. Named by US-ACAN for Carl O. Petersen, radio engineer with the ByrdAE in 1928-30 and 1933-35.
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