Rigid Peninsula
| Rigid Peninsula | ||
 Map of Thurston Island with the Starr Peninsula (center left) |
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| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 1 ′ S , 99 ° 31 ′ W | |
| location | Thurston Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters 1 | Bellingshausen lake | |
| Waters 2 | Wagoner Inlet | |
| Waters 3 | Potaka Inlet | |
| length | 16 km | |
The Starr Peninsula is a 16 km long peninsula on the north coast of Thurston Island off the Eights coast of West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It is between the Wagoner Inlet and the Potaka Inlet .
Your position was determined from aerial photographs taken during Operation Highjump (1946–1947) in December 1946. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1960 after Robert Brewster Starr (* 1925), oceanographer on board the icebreaker USS Glacier during the United States Navy's research voyage to the Bellingshausen Sea in February 1960.
Web links
- Starr Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Starr Peninsula on geographic.org (English)