Noville Peninsula () is a high ice-covered

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about 30 nautical miles (60 km) long, between Peale and

Murphy Inlet Murphy Inlet is an ice-filled inlet about 18 nautical miles (33 km) long, with two parallel branches at the head, lying between Noville and Edwards Peninsulas on the north side of Thurston Island, Antarctica. It was delineated from aer ...

s on the north side of

Thurston Island Thurston Island is an ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long, wide and in area, lying a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It is the third-largest island of Antarctica, after Alexander Island and Berkner Isl ...

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. It was delineated from aerial photographs made by U.S. Navy Operation HIGHJUMP in December 1946, and named for

George O. Noville George Otto Noville (April 24, 1890 – January 1, 1963), also known as "Noville" and "Rex," was a pioneer in polar and trans-Atlantic aviation in the 1920s, and winner of the Distinguished Flying Cross. He served with Commander Richard E. B ...

, executive officer of the

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, 1933–35. The northern extremity of the peninsula (and Thurston Island overall) is ice-covered Cape LeBlanc. It was named by the

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after Lieutenant Ralph P. LeBlanc,

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, plane commander of an

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 ...

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seaplane that crashed south of this cape, on December 30, 1946. Severely injured, LeBlanc was among the six of nine aboard that survived the crash. They were rescued on January 12, 1947, by Lieutenant Commander John D. Howell, who landed a PBM in open water off the northwest edge of Noville Peninsula. The west extremity of the peninsula, ice-covered Rescue Point, is so-named because the survivors were rescued there. The eastern extremity of the peninsula is Black Crag, a small steep cliff rock exposure just south of small Mulroy Island. It was delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Squadron

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in January 1960, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for George H. Black, a supply officer of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1928–30. Mount Feury is a peak on the northeast side of the peninsula, between Sikorski Glacier and Frankenfield Glacier.

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.

References

Peninsulas of Ellsworth Land Thurston Island {{ThurstonIsland-geo-stub