Hughes Peninsula
| Hughes Peninsula | ||
 Map of Thurston Island with the Hughes Peninsula (center left) |
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| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 54 ′ S , 100 ° 17 ′ W | |
| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Waters 1 | Bellingshausen lake | |
| Waters 2 | Henry Inlet | |
| length | 29 km | |
The Hughes Peninsula is a 29 km long and icy peninsula on the north coast of Thurston Island off the Eights coast of west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It lies east of Henry Inlet and ends at Cape Davies .
An initial mapping was based on aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy in December 1946 during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the peninsula in 1960 after Jerry Hughes, who took aerial photographs of Thurston Island from a helicopter during the United States Navy expedition to the Bellingshausen Sea in the same year.
Web links
- Hughes Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hughes Peninsula on geographic.org (English)