King Peninsula

King Peninsula is an ice-covered peninsula, long and wide, lying south of Thurston Island and forming the south side of Peacock Sound, Antarctica. ^[1]

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1. 13 relations: Abbot Ice Shelf, Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Amundsen Sea, Canisteo Peninsula, Eights Coast, Ellsworth Land, Ernest J. King, Operation Highjump, Reston, Virginia, Siple Coast, Thurston Island, United States Geological Survey, Walgreen Coast.

2. Peninsulas of Ellsworth Land

Abbot Ice Shelf

The Abbot Ice Shelf is an ice shelf long and wide, bordering Eights Coast from Cape Waite to Pfrogner Point in Antarctica.

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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.

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Amundsen Sea

The Amundsen Sea is an arm of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica.

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Canisteo Peninsula

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. King Peninsula and Canisteo Peninsula are peninsulas of Ellsworth Land.

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Eights Coast

Eights Coast is a portion of the coast of West Antarctica, between Cape Waite and Pfrogner Point.

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Ellsworth Land

Ellsworth Land is a portion of the Antarctic continent bounded on the west by Marie Byrd Land, on the north by Bellingshausen Sea, on the northeast by the base of Antarctic Peninsula, and on the east by the western margin of the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf.

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Ernest J. King

Ernest Joseph King (23 November 1878 – 25 June 1956) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy who served as Commander in Chief, United States Fleet (COMINCH) and Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) during World War II.

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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.

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Reston, Virginia

Reston is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, and a principal city of both Northern Virginia and the Washington metropolitan area.

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Siple Coast

Siple Coast is the middle portion of the relatively ill-defined coast along the east side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between the north end of Gould Coast and the south end of Shirase Coast.

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Thurston Island

Thurston Island is a largely ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long and wide, lying between Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Walgreen Coast

The Walgreen Coast is a portion of the coast of Antarctica between Cape Herlacher and Cape Waite, or between Eights Coast on the east and Bakutis Coast in the west.

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See also

Peninsulas of Ellsworth Land

• Bear Peninsula
• Canisteo Peninsula
• Fletcher Peninsula
• King Peninsula
• Lofgren Peninsula
• Noville Peninsula

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Peninsula

Also known as Burke Island, Cape Waite, Cosgrove Ice Shelf, Early Islands, Ferrero Bay, Morelli Glacier, Rignot Glacier, Rosanova Glacier, Stapleton Glacier, Waite Islands.

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