Drew Cove

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Drew Cove ( 66°20′S110°30′E / 66.333°S 110.500°E / -66.333; 110.500 Coordinates: 66°20′S110°30′E / 66.333°S 110.500°E / -66.333; 110.500 ) is a cove indenting the west side of Mitchell Peninsula on the Budd Coast. It was first mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Chief Construction Electrician John W. Drew, U.S. Navy, a member of the Wilkes Station party of 1958. [1]

Geographic coordinate system Coordinate system

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Mitchell Peninsula is a rocky peninsula, 2.5 nautical miles (5 km) long and 2 nautical miles (4 km) wide, lying between O'Brien Bay and Sparkes Bay at the east side of the Windmill Islands, Antarctica. It was first mapped from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in February 1947 and thought to be an island connected by a steep snow ramp to the continental ice overlying Budd Coast, though the term peninsula was considered more appropriate by the Wilkes Station party of 1957. Mitchell Peninsula was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain Ray A. Mitchell, U.S. Navy, captain of the USS Cacapon, a tanker of the western task group of Operation Highjump, Task Force 68 of 1946–47.

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