Tinglof Peninsula () is an ice-covered

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, 10 nautical miles (18 km) long, between

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Wagoner Inlet Wagoner Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet between Tinglof Peninsula and Starr Peninsula on the north side of Thurston Island. It was delineated from aerial photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946. It was named by the Advi ...

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 ...

. It was delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946. It was named by the

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(US-ACAN) for

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, tractor mechanic of the

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in 1933–35, who, at Little America, built the first heavy cargo sleds for use in the Antarctic. Smith Cliff is a rock cliff midway along the ice-covered northern shore of the peninsula. It was photographed by the Eastern Group of Operation Highjump and later named by US-ACAN after aviation radioman William F. Smith, an aircrewman from the operation.

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). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

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