Canisteo Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula, about long and wide, which projects between

Ferrero Bay King Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula, long and wide, lying south of Thurston Island and forming the south side of Peacock Sound, Antarctica. It projects from the continental ice sheet and trends west between the Abbot Ice Shelf and C ...

and Cranton Bay into the eastern extremity of the

Amundsen Sea The Amundsen Sea is an arm of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica. It lies between Cape Flying Fish (the northwestern tip of Thurston Island) to the east and Cape Dart on Siple Island to the west. Cape Flying Fish ...

Location

The Canisteo Peninsula extends westward into the

from the

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. It is part of Marie Byrd Land. It extends from 103°24'W to 114°12'W. It ...

Ellsworth Land Ellsworth Land is a portion of the Antarctica, Antarctic continent bounded on the west by Marie Byrd Land, on the north by the Bellingshausen Sea, on the northeast by the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, and on the east by the western margin of t ...

and the Cosgrove Ice Shelf are to the north, and Cranton Bay is to the south. The Lindsey Islands, Sterrett Islands and Edwards Islands lie just west of the peninsula.

Mapping and name

Canisteo Peninsula was delineated from air photographs taken by the United States Navy

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 (exploration b ...

(OpHjp) in December 1946. It was named by the United States

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. History The committee was established ...

(US-ACAN) for the USS ''Canisteo'', a tanker with the eastern task group of this expedition.

Nearby features

Lindsey Islands

. A group of islands lying just off the northwest tip of Canisteo Peninsula. Delineated from air photos taken by United States Navy OpHjp in December 1946. Named by US-ACAN for Alton A. Lindsey, biologist with the ByrdAE, 1933-35.

Schaefer Islands

. A small group of islands lying close to the northwest end of Canisteo Peninsula and southwest of Lindsey Islands. Mapped from air photos taken by United States Navy OpHjp in December 1946. Named by US-ACAN for William A. Schaefer, geologist on the Ellsworth Land Survey, 1968-69.

Sterrett Islands

. A small group of islands in Amundsen Sea, lying northwest of Edwards Islands and west of Canisteo Peninsula. Plotted from air photos taken by United States Navy Squadron VX-6 in January, 1960. Named by US-ACAN for James M. Sterrett, biologist with the ByrdAE in 1933-35.

Edwards Islands

. Group of about 20 small islands, mostly ice free, lying off the southwest tip of Canisteo Peninsula. Plotted from air photos taken by United States Navy Squadron VX-6 in January 1960. Named by US-ACAN for "Z" "T" Edwards, chief quartermaster on the USS Glacier during the United States Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition to this area in February 1960.

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