Browning Peninsula
| Browning Peninsula | ||
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| location | Budd Coast , Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Waters 1 | Penney Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Eyres Bay | |
| length | 6.5 km | |
 Map of the southern Windmill Islands with the Browning Peninsula (bottom center) |
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The Browning Peninsula is a rocky peninsula on the Budd Coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It separates Penney Bay from Eyres Bay at the southern end of the Windmill Islands .
It was first mapped using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy in 1947 and 1948 during Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them after Charles L. Browning, a staff officer in Operation Windmill and Operation Deep Freeze from 1955 to 1956.
Web links
- Browning Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Browning Peninsula on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the Windmill Islands and the surrounding area (PDF, March 2009) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)