Lindsey Islands
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Lindsey Islands is a group of islands lying just off the northwest tip of Canisteo Peninsula
in Amundsen Sea
. Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
(US-ACAN) for Alton A. Lindsey
, biologist with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1933-35.
Canisteo Peninsula
Canisteo Peninsula is an ice-covered peninsula, about long and wide, which projects between Ferrero Bay and Cranton Bay into the eastern extremity of the Amundsen Sea. It was delineated from air photos taken by U.S...
in Amundsen Sea
Amundsen Sea
The Amundsen Sea is an arm of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica. It is bounded by Cape Flying Fish, the northwestern tip of Thurston Island to the east and Cape Dart on Siple Island to the west. East of Cape Flying Fish starts the Bellingshausen Sea. West of Cape Dart is...
. Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...
(US-ACAN) for Alton A. Lindsey
Alton A. Lindsey
Alton A. Lindsey was a pioneering ecologist who was largely responsible for the creation of nature preserves in the state of Indiana, where he was a professor of forest ecology at Purdue University from 1947 to 1973...
, biologist with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1933-35.