Ball peninsula
| Ball peninsula | ||
 Map of Thurston Island with the Ball Peninsula (top center) |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 8 ′ S , 98 ° 3 ′ W | |
| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Waters | Murphy Inlet | |
The Ball Peninsula is a wide and icy peninsula north of Thurston Island off the coast of West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It extends into Murphy Inlet between the Noville and Edwards Peninsula .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Lieutenant James Lewis Ball (1920-2006), pilot of a Martin PBM Mariner during the US Operation Highjump (1946-1947) to create aerial photographs of the peninsula and the neighboring coastal area, which on On January 12, 1947, he was involved in the rescue of six surviving crew members of a plane of the same type that crashed on the Noville Peninsula.
Web links
- Ball Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ball Peninsula on geographic.org (English)