
Starr Peninsula () is an ice-covered
peninsula
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about 10 nautical miles (18 km) long, between
Wagoner and
Potaka Inlet
Potaka Inlet is a narrow ice-filled inlet about 8 nautical miles (15 km) long, indenting the north side of Thurston Island immediately east of Starr Peninsula. It was first delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump ...
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 Is ...
. It was delineated from aerial photographs taken by
U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946. It was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
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History
The committee was established ...
for
Robert B. Starr
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, oceanographer aboard the USS ''Glacier'' in this area during the
U.S. Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition
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in February 1960.
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.
Peninsulas of Ellsworth Land
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