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Dustin Island is an island about long, lying southeast of
Cape Annawan Tierney Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula about 14 nautical miles (26 km) long, between Savage Glacier and Morgan Inlet in the east end of Thurston Island. The east extremity of the peninsula (and Thurston Island overall) is Cape Anna ...
, Thurston Island. The feature forms the SE limit of Seraph Bay. It was discovered by Rear Admiral
Byrd Byrd commonly refers to: * William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623), an English composer of the Renaissance * Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957), an American naval officer and explorer Byrd or Byrds may also refer to: Other people * Byrd (surname), includin ...
and other members of the USAS in a flight from the ''Bear'' on February 27, 1940. It was named by Byrd for Frederick G. Dustin, member of the Byrd AE and mechanic with the USAS.


Maps


Thurston Island – Jones Mountains.
1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.


Further reading

* Defense Mapping Agency 1992,
Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica
', P 379


External links


Dustin Island
on USGS website
Dustin Island
on SCAR website
Dustin Island
on marineregions.org
Frederick G. Dustin Logbook
at Dartmouth College Library


References

Islands of Ellsworth Land {{ThurstonIsland-geo-stub