- Canisteo Peninsula
Canisteo Peninsula (coord|73|48|S|102|20|W|) is an ice-covered peninsula, about 30 miles long and 20 miles wide, which projects between
Ferrero Bay andCranton Bay into the east extremity ofAmundsen Sea . It was delineated from air photos taken by USNOperation Highjump in December 1946, and named by theAdvisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for the USS "Canisteo", a tanker with the eastern task group of this expedition.
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