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42: 240: 49: 965: 931: 598:. A ridge-like nunatak located inland from Odom Inlet and 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) west of Mount Whiting. Mapped by USGS in 1974. Named by US-ACAN for Yevgeniy N. Kamenev, Soviet geologist who was an Exchange Scientist to the United States McMurdo Station in 1972. He participated as a member of the USGS geological and mapping party to the Lassiter Coast in 1972-73. 482:. A conspicuous, somewhat isolated, bare rock monolith or headland, standing at the east end of Condor Peninsula, 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) southeast of Cape MacDonald, on the east coast of Palmer Land. Mapped by the USGS in 1974. Named by the US-ACAN for Gary L. Cadle, CE2, United States Navy, electrician at Palmer Station in 1973. 754:. A cluster of pointed peaks, mostly snow covered, at the southwest end of a large horseshoe-shaped ridge. Located 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) northwest of Schirmacher Massif. Mapped by USGS in 1974. Named by US-ACAN for geologist Richard B. Waitt, a member of the USGS geological and mapping party to the Lassiter Coast, 1972-73. 636:. A pyramidal mountain, largely ice free and steep cliffed on the south side, standing at the southwest side of Rankin Glacier. Mapped by USGS in 1974. 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. 444:. 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. Mapped by the USGS in 1974. Named by the US-ACAN for William Showers, USARP biologist at Palmer Station in 1975. 520:. A cape marked by a triangular rock peak at the southeast end of Condor Peninsula, 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) southwest of Cape Knowles. The cape was photographed from the air by the USAS on December 30, 1940. It was surveyed by the FIDS-RARE ( 678:. Mapped by USGS in 1974. Named by US-ACAN for Eberhard G. Schirmacher, topographic engineer, leader of the USGS topographic party on two expeditions to the Lassiter Coast, 1969-70 and 1970-71. He was USGS party leader to Pine Island Bay, 1974-75. 716:. The dominant, largely snow-covered peak in the north part of Schirmacher Massif. Mapped by USGS in 1974. Named by US-ACAN for Frederick J. Geier, topographic engineer with the USGS geological and mapping party to Lassiter Coast, 1969-70. 674:. An island-like mountain massif in the east part of Palmer Land. The feature is surrounded by the flow of the Rankin Glacier and Cline Glacier, 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) west of 969: 935: 176:) is a mountainous, ice-covered peninsula, 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi) long and 10 to 15 nautical miles (19 to 28 km; 12 to 17 mi) wide, between 543:(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 91: 139: 307:(USAS) "Condor" flight of December 30, 1940 from the East Base with Black, Snow, Perce, Carroll and Dyer aboard. It was named by the United States 382:. A small but dominant peak that rises from one of the main spurs on the north side of Condor Peninsula. The feature stands close south of where 939: 391: 308: 41: 521: 525: 988: 540: 17: 532: 726: 688: 646: 608: 570: 492: 454: 416: 354: 315:
biplane in which personnel of USAS, 1939–41, made numerous photographic flights and flights of discovery over the
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The History of Place-names in the Falkland Islands Dependencies (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
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The Condor Peninsula was first observed and photographed from the air in the course of the
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between latitudes 67°30′S and 74°0′S. The peninsula was mapped in detail by the
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from the right and flows into Odom Inlet. Features, from west to east, include
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The History of Place-names in the British Antarctic Territory
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Northern Palmer Land. Condor Peninsula in southeast of map
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Schirmacher Massif
Condor Peninsula is located in Antarctica
Palmer Land
71°46′S 61°30′W / 71.767°S 61.500°W / -71.767; -61.500 (Condor Peninsula)
71°46′S 61°30′W / 71.767°S 61.500°W / -71.767; -61.500 (Condor Peninsula)
Odom Inlet
Hilton Inlet
Palmer Land
OpenStreetMap
KML
GPX (all coordinates)
GPX (primary coordinates)
GPX (secondary coordinates)

Black Coast
Palmer Land
Weddell Sea
Hilton Inlet
Odom Inlet
Kellogg Glacier
Gruening Glacier
Rankin Glacier
Cline Glacier
Boyer Spur
Cape MacDonald
Cape Knowles
United States Antarctic Service
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Curtiss-Wright Condor
Antarctic Peninsula

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