Condor Peninsula

[1] Download coordinates as: The Condor Peninsula is on the Black Coast of Palmer Land, beside the Weddell Sea to the east.

It was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after the twin-motored Curtiss-Wright Condor biplane in which personnel of USAS, 1939–41, made numerous photographic flights and flights of discovery over the Antarctic Peninsula, George VI Sound, Alexander Island, Charcot Island and the Bellingshausen Sea between latitudes 67°30′S and 74°0′S.

A mountain rising above the Condor Peninsula, 13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi) southwest of Cape MacDonald, on the east coast of Palmer Land.

[6] It was named by US-ACAN in 1984 after Geoffrey Francis Hattersley-Smith, with British Antarctic Survey (BAS) from 1973 (Secretary, UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), 1975-91); FIDS Base Leader and glaciologist, Admiralty Bay, 1948-49; with Defense Research Board, Canada, 1951-73 (field research in the Arctic); author of The History of Place-names in the Falkland Islands Dependencies (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands), Cambridge, 1980, and The History of Place-names in the British Antarctic Territory, Cambridge, 1991.

A ridge-like nunatak located inland from Odom Inlet and 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) west of Mount Whiting.

Named by US-ACAN for Yevgeniy N. Kamenev, Soviet geologist who was an Exchange Scientist to the United States McMurdo Station in 1972.

Named by US-ACAN for topographic engineer Ronald F. Whiting, a member of the USGS geological and mapping party to the'Lassiter Coast area, 1970-71.

Named by US-ACAN for Frederick J. Geier, topographic engineer with the USGS geological and mapping party to Lassiter Coast, 1969-70.

Named by US-ACAN for geologist Richard B. Waitt, a member of the USGS geological and mapping party to the Lassiter Coast, 1972-73.

[11] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Geological Survey.

Northern Palmer Land. Condor Peninsula in southeast of map