COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

The peninsula, an ice-covered spur from the main mountain mass of the Antarctic Peninsula, projects over 40 mi in a NE arc from its base between Mobiloil and Casey Inlets. Discovered and partially photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on his 1935 trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island to the Ross Sea. Photographed from the air and charted from the ground by the USAS in 1940. Named for Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, pilot on Ellsworth's flight in 1935, whose demonstration of the practicability of landing and taking off an airplane in isolated areas constitutes a distinct contribution to the technique of Antarctic exploration.

Fue descubierta y fotografiada en forma parcial desde el aire por Lincoln Ellsworth en su vuelo transantártico de noviembre a diciembre de 1935, desde isla Dundee al mar de Ross. Posteriormente fue fotografiada desde el aire y cartografiada en el terreno, en 1940, por el USAS. y denominada por Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, piloto de vuelo de Ellsworth en 1935, cuya demostración de lo practicable en aterrizar y tomar vuelo en aeroplano de áreas aisladas constituye una gran contribución a la técnica de la exploración antártica. Península angosta y cubierta de hielo derivada de la principal masa montañosa de la península Tierra de O'Higgins, la que se proyecta por 30 millas en un arco NE desde su origen en el lado E de ensenada Mobiloil.

between Mobiloil Inlet, Bowman Coast, and Revelle Inlet, Wilkins Coast, terminating in Cape Agassiz, was partially photographed from the air by Wilkins, 20 December 1928 (Wilkins, 1929, Fig. 29, p.368) and by Ellsworth, 23 November 1935 (Joerg, 1937, Fig. 2, p.434), but probably not recognized as a feature on these flights, since it was not mapped by Joerg (1937, map facing p.444); again partially photographed from the air and surveyed from the ground by USAS in December 1940, when the E extremity forming Cape Agassiz was described as a snow-covered island (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942; USHO, 1943, p.272 and photograph facing p.273); seen from the air by FIDS-RARE in August-September 1947, when the peninsula was identified as the feature partially photographed by Wilkins and Ellsworth, with the "island" joined to the rest of the peninsula; following ground survey by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in November 1947, named Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula after Herbert Hollick-Kenyon (1897-1975), Canadian pilot on Ellsworths' trans-Antarctic flight in November 1935 and on Wilkins' 1937 air expedition over the Arctic Ocean in search of six missing Soviet airmen; Hon. Air Cmdre, RCAF; Chief pilot, Canadian Pacific Airlines, 1942-62 (BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.12; DCS 601 sheet 68, 62, 1955; USBGN, 1956, p.160). Península Hollick(-)Kenyon (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.429; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.153). Poluostrov Khollik-Ken'on (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Kenyon Peninsula (APC, 1960, p.5; DOS 610 sheet W 68 62, 1963).