Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island off Antarctica between the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas. Before 1960 it was thought to be a peninsula of the mainland.
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Further photomapping flights from the USS PINE ISLAND were conducted covering the Getz Ice Shelf to the vicinity of Thurston Island.
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Petty Officer 1st Class Fred Williams, Ensign Maxwell Lopez and Petty Officer 1st Class Wendell Hendersin died when their PBM-5 Mariner flying boat went down in a storm on Thurston Island on Dec. 30, 1946.
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