Hughes Peninsula

Hughes Peninsula (

71°54′S 100°17′W / 71.900°S 100.283°W / -71.900; -100.283Coordinates: 71°54′S 100°17′W / 71.900°S 100.283°W / -71.900; -100.283) is an ice-covered peninsula about 18 nautical miles (33 km) long, lying west of Henry Inlet on the north side of Thurston Island, Antarctica.^[1] At the northeast end of the peninsula is ice-covered Cape Davies.^[2] These features were plotted from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946 and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names. The peninsula was named for , a photographer's mate with the U.S. Navy in February 1960, who took aerial photographs of Thurston Island from helicopters.^[1] The cape was named for , a social worker with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1928–30.^[2]

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.

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 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Geological Survey.