GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Aidwich, Mount: see Aldrich, Mount. 



Aiguille de V Astrolabe: see Astrolabe Needle. 



AILSA CRAIG: precipitous islet about 1 mi. S. 

 of Point Rae, oflf the S. coast of Laurie I. in the 

 South Orkney Is.; in 60°47'S., 44°37'W. Charted 

 by the ScotNAE, 1902-4, under Bruce, and named 

 by him after the island in the Firth of Clyde in 

 Scotland. Not adopted: Ailsa Craig Islet. 



AINS WORTH BAY: open bay lying between 

 Capes Bage and Webb, along George V Coast; in 

 about 67°48'S., 146°45'E. Disc, in 1912 by the 

 Main Base party of the AAE under Mawson, and 

 named, by him for G. F. Ainsworth, who served as 

 leader and meteorologist with the AAE party based 

 on Macquarie Island during 1911-13. 



AITCHO ISLANDS: group of small islands lying 

 between Table and Dee Islands and extending 

 across the central part of the N. entrance to Eng- 

 lish Str., in the South Shetland Is.; in 62°23'S., 

 59°50'W. Charted in 1935 by DI personnel on the 

 Discovery II. The name appears to have been first 

 used on a 1948 Admiralty chart based upon this 

 survey. 



AITKEN COVE: cove which lies immediately NE. 

 of Cape Whitson, along the S. coast of Laurie I. 

 in South Orkney Is.; in 60°45'S., 44°32'W. 

 Charted by the ScotNAE, 1902-4, under Bruce, and 

 named by him for A. N. G. Aitken, solicitor to the 

 expedition. 



Akar Peaks; Aker Range: see Aker Peaks. 



AKERLUNDH NUNATAK: nunatak which lies 1 

 mi. NW. of Donald Nunatak and midway between 

 Bruce and Burn Murdoch Nunataks in the Seal 

 Nunataks group, off the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 65°04'S., 60°11'W. Charted in 1947 by the FIDS, 

 who named it for Gustaf Akerlundh, a member of 

 the SwedAE, 1901-4. 



AKER PEAKS: series of mainly snow-covered 

 peaks, the highest about 5,900 ft. in el. They rise 

 WNW. of Edward VIII Bay in Enderby Land and 

 extend about 30 mi. in a NW.-SE. direction; in 

 about 66°43'S., 55°20'E. Disc, on Jan. 14, 1931 by 

 a Nor. whaling exp. under O. Borchgrevink, and 

 named by him for the farm of Dir. Svend Foyn 

 Bruun of the Antarctic Whaling Co. at T0nsberg. 

 Not adopted: Akar Peaks, Aker Range. 



ALAMODE ISLAND: largest and southeastern- 

 most of the Terra Firma Is., with steep rocky cliffs 

 surmounted by a rock and snow cone rising to 

 about 1,100 ft. in el., lying in Marguerite Bay off 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 68°43'S., 67°32'W. 



First visited and surveyed by the BGLE under 

 Rymill in 1936. So named by the FIDS, following 

 a 1948 resurvey, for its resemblance to some form of 

 confection served with ice cream on it. 



Alan Thomson, Mount: see Allan Thomson, 

 Mount. 



ALBANUS GLACIER: valley glacier about 8 mi. 

 wide and of undetermined length which flows W. 

 between the Tapley Mtns., on the N., and Mounts 

 Danforth and Zanuck, on the S., in the Queen 

 Maud Range, and enters Robert Scott Gl. about 

 20 mi. S. of where it merges with the head of Ross 

 Ice Shelf; in about 85°50'S., 150°00'E. Disc, in De- 

 cember 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under 

 Quin Blackburn, and named by Byrd for Albanus 

 Phillips, Jr., manufacturer of Cambridge, Md., 

 and patron of the Byrd Antarctic Expeditions of 

 1928-30 and 1933-35. Not adopted: Phillips 

 Glacier. 



Albatros Insel: see Albatross Island. 



ALBATROSS ISLAND: island about 2 mi. SE. of 

 Cape Buller, lying in the Bay of Isles, South 

 Georgia; in about 54°02'S., 37°20'W. Charted in 

 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American 

 naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, who gave this 

 name because he observed albatrosses there. Not 

 adopted: Albatros Insel [German], Albatross Islet. 



ALBERT DE MONACO, CAPE: cape which forms 

 the SW. tip of Anvers I., in the Palmer Arch.; in 

 64°42'S., 64°15'W. Disc, by a Ger. exp., 1873-74, 

 under Dallmann, but its relationship to Anvers I. 

 was not known at that time. It was later charted 

 by the FrAE, 1903-5, under Charcot, and named 

 by him for Prince Albert de Monaco, a patron of 

 the expedition. Not adopted: Cape Monaco. 



ALBERT MARKHAM, MOUNT: striking, flat- 

 topped mountain, about 10,000 ft. in el., standing 

 W. of Beaumont Bay and the Ross Ice Shelf; in 

 about 81°25'S., 158°00'E. Disc, in December 1902 

 by the BrNAE under Scott, and named by him for 

 Adm. Sir Albert Markham, a member of the Ship 

 Committee for the expedition. 



ALBRECHT PENCK GLACIER: short, deeply en- 

 trenched glacier which is a southern tributary of 

 Fry Gl., on the E. coast of Victoria Land; in about 

 76°40'S., 162°30'E. First charted by the BrAE, 

 1907-9, under Shackleton, who named it for Dr. 

 Albrecht Penck, internationally known geographer, 

 who at that time was Dir. of the Inst, for Oceanog- 

 raphy and of the Geographical Inst, in Berlin. 

 The US-ACAN added the Christian name to the 

 surname to differentiate this feature from Penck 



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