Tinglof Peninsula
| Tinglof Peninsula | ||
 Map of Thurston Island with the Tinglof Peninsula (center left) |
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| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 2 ′ S , 100 ° 6 ′ W | |
| location | Thurston Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters 1 | Henry Inlet | |
| Waters 2 | Wagoner Inlet | |
| length | 16 km | |
The Tinglof Peninsula is a 16 km long and icy peninsula on the north coast of Thurston Island off the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It is between Henry Inlet and Wagoner 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 Iver August Tinglof (1895-1935), a tractor mechanic on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Tinglof Peninsula in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tinglof Peninsula on geographic.org (English)