McCarthy Island as named after Timothy McCarthy, who sailed on the "Endurance" during an expedition for the Antarctic under which captain?
McCarthy Island (South Georgia) McCarthy Island is an island, 1 nmi long, lying in the entrance to King Haakon Bay on the south side of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Timothy McCarthy, a seaman on the "Endurance" during the British expedition under Ernest Shackleton, 1914–16. McCarthy accompanied Shackleton in the "James Caird" from Elephant Island to King Haakon Bay.
Mitchell Peninsula Mitchell Peninsula ( ) is a rocky peninsula, 2.5 nmi long and 2 nmi 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.