Tierney Peninsula

Tierney Peninsula (

72°23′S 95°46′W / 72.383°S 95.767°W / -72.383; -95.767Coordinates: 72°23′S 95°46′W / 72.383°S 95.767°W / -72.383; -95.767) is an ice-covered peninsula about 14 nautical miles (26 km) long, between Savage Glacier and Morgan Inlet in the east end of Thurston Island.^[1] The east extremity of the peninsula (and Thurston Island overall) is Cape Annawan.^[2] These features were discovered on helicopter flights from the USS Burton Island and Glacier of the in February 1960 and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN). The peninsula was named for , oceanographer aboard the Burton Island on this expedition.^[1] The cape was named for the ship Annawan of the of 1829–31, which with the Penguin sailed west from the South Shetland Islands in February 1830, holding a course between 62S and 58S and exploring as far as 103W, northward of this cape.^[2]

Two nautical miles (3.7 km) west of the base is Pallid Crest, a solitary ice-covered ridge visible from a considerable distance and various directions. It was named by US-ACAN because of its whitish appearance.^[3]

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[]

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