Cape Petersen

	Cape Petersen
	Geographical location
Coordinates	71 ° 54 ′ S , 101 ° 27 ′ W Coordinates: 71 ° 54 ′ S , 101 ° 27 ′ W
location	Thurston Island ( West Antarctica )
Waters	Bellingshausen lake
	; Map of Thurston Island with Cape Petersen (center left)

The Cape Petersen is a round and icy cape on the north coast of Thurston Island before Eights Coast of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . It is located around 29 km east-northeast of Cape Flying Fish .

A first position determination of the cape was based on aerial photographs of the United States Navy from December 1946 during Operation Highjump (1946-1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1960 after Carl Oskar Petersen (1891-1941), radio engineer on the first (1928-1930) and second Antarctic expeditions (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .

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