Canisteo Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula, about long and wide, which projects between
Ferrero Bay and
Cranton Bay into the eastern extremity of the
Amundsen Sea
The Amundsen Sea, an arm of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica, lies between Cape Flying Fish (the northwestern tip of Thurston Island) to the east and Cape Dart on Siple Island to the west. Cape Flying Fish marks the ...
. It was delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy
Operation Highjump
Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...
in December 1946, and named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
History
The committee was established ...
for the
USS ''Canisteo'', a tanker with the eastern task group of this expedition.
Further reading
* Defense Mapping Agency 1992,
Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica', P 277
* Herzfeld U.C. (2004),
Detailed Studies of Selected Antarctic Outlet Glaciers and Ice Shelves', In: Atlas of Antarctica. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18515-1_6
References
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Peninsulas of Ellsworth Land
Canisteo, New York
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