Noville Peninsula

[2] Noville Peninsula was delineated from aerial photographs made by United States Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946.

Discovered by the United States Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition in February 1960, and named for Commander Philip W. Porter, Jr., United States Navy, commander of the icebreaker USS Glacier which made this discovery.

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Lieutenant Ralph P. LeBlanc, U.S. Navy Reserve, plane commander of the Operation Highjump PBM Mariner seaplane that crashed 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) south of this cape on December 30, 1946.

The survivors were rescued January 12, 1947 by Lieutenant Commander John D. Howell, who landed a PBM in open water off the northwest edge of Noville Peninsula.

An ice-covered mountain, visible from seaward, surmounting the north end of Noville Peninsula on Thurston Island.

Named by US-ACAN for James Troxall Palmer, acting surgeon on the ship Relief and later on the sloop of war Peacock of the USEE under Wilkes, 1838-42, and later Surgeon-General of the Navy.