Mitchell Peninsula () is a rocky

peninsula A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all ...

, long and wide, lying between O'Brien Bay and

Sparkes Bay Sparkes Bay () is a bay, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) wide and indenting 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) between Mitchell Peninsula on the north and Robinson Ridge and Odbert Island on the south, in the Windmill Islands. First mapped from air phot ...

at the east side of the

Windmill Islands The Windmill Islands are an Antarctic group of rocky islands and rocks about wide, paralleling the coast of Wilkes Land for immediately north of Vanderford Glacier along the east side of Vincennes Bay. Kirkby Shoal is a small shoal area with de ...

, Antarctica. It was first mapped from aerial photographs 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 February 1947 and thought to be an island connected by a steep snow ramp to the continental ice overlying

Budd Coast Budd Coast (), part of Wilkes Land, is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between the Hatch Islands, at 109°16'E, and Cape Waldron, at 115°33'E. It was discovered in February 1840 by the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838–42) under th ...

, though the term peninsula was considered more appropriate by the

Wilkes Station Wilkes Station was an Antarctic research station established 29 January 1957 by the United States as one of seven U.S. stations established for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) program in Antarctica. It was taken over by Australia on ...

party of 1957. Mitchell Peninsula was 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 Captain Ray A. Mitchell,

U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage of ...

, captain of the , a tanker of the western task group of Operation Highjump, Task Force 68 of 1946–47. On its southern side is Bednarz Cove, and Drew Cove indents the west side.

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Peninsulas of Antarctica Landforms of Wilkes Land {{WilkesLand-geo-stub

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