The Buell Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula terminating in Cape Williams, located between the lower ends of

Lillie Glacier Lillie Glacier () is a large glacier in Antarctica, about long and wide. It lies between the Bowers Mountains on the west and the Concord Mountains and Anare Mountains on the east, flowing to Ob' Bay on the coast and forming the Lillie Glacier T ...

, George Glacier and Zykov Glacier, at the northwest end of the

Anare Mountains The Anare Mountains () are a large group of mainly snow-covered peaks and ridges along the northern coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The group is bounded on the north and east by the Pacific Ocean, on the west by Lillie Glacier, and on the sou ...

in Antarctica. The peninsula is long and at its greatest width.

Exploration and naming

The Buell Peninsula was photographed from

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aircraft during

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 ...

, 1946–47, and again in 1960–62. It was mapped by the

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(USGS) in 1962–63, and 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 Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Commander) Kenneth R. Buell, a U.S. Navy navigator on aircraft with Squadron

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in Antarctica in 1965–66 and 1966–67.

Location

The Buell Peninsula extends northward into the Pacific Ocean from the

between Zykov Glacier to the east, George Glacier to the southwest and the

Lillie Glacier Tongue Ob' Bay () is a bay lying between Lunik Point and Cape Williams in Antarctica. Lillie Glacier Tongue occupies the east part of the bay. The bay was charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1958) and named after the expedition ship ''Ob''. ...

to the west. Features include Cape Williams in the north, and Saddle Peak and Mount Kostka on the neck of the peninsula to the south.

Features

Cape Williams

. An ice-covered cape at the east side of the terminus of

. Discovered in February 1911 when the ''Terra Nova'' of the

British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13 The ''Terra Nova'' Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition had various scientific and geographical objec ...

, explored the area westward of Cape North. Named for William Williams, Chief Engine-room Artificer on the Terra Nova.

Saddle Peak

. Twin peaks high with a distinct saddle between them, located northwest of Mount Kostka. Given this descriptive name by

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(ANARE) (Thala Dan), 1962, which explored this area.

Mount Kostka

. Mountain high on the west side of Zykov Glacier, southeast of Saddle Peak. Photographed from the air by United States Navy

, 1946-47. Surveyed by the

Soviet Antarctic Expedition The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (, ''Sovetskaya antarkticheskaya ekspeditsiya'') was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the Soviet Committee on Antarctic Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. It was ...

in 1958 and named after Czechoslovakian aerologist O. Kostka, a member of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1959-61, who perished in a fire at

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on August 3, 1960.

References

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