GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Arch., along Adelie Coast; in 66°42'S., 140°05'E. 

 Delineated from aerial photographs taken by USN 

 Op. Hjp., 1946-47, and named for the French 

 corvette Astrolabe. 



ASTROLABE ISLAND: island, about 3 mi. long 

 and 1,500 ft. in el., which lies in Bransfield Str. 

 about 13 mi. WNW. of Cape Ducorps, Louis Phi- 

 lippe Pen.; in 63°20'S., 58°40'W. Disc, by a Fr. 

 exp., 1837-40, under D'Urville, and named by him 

 after his chief exp. ship, the Astrolabe. 



Astrolabe Island: see Astrolabe Islet (64°38'S., 

 62°52'W.). 



ASTROLABE ISLET: islet which lies 0.2 mi. off 

 the E. coast of Anvers I. and about 4 mi. SW. of 

 Van Ryswyck Pt., in the Palmer Arch.; in 64°38'S., 

 62°52'W. Charted in 1927 by DI personnel on the 

 Discovery, who probably gave the name. Not 

 adopted: Astrolabe Island. 



ASTROLABE NEEDLE: conspicuous pointed 

 monolith about 150 ft. in el., standing near Claude 

 Pt., off the NW. side of Brabant I., in the Palmer 

 Arch.; in 64°07'S., 62°41'W. Disc, and named by 

 the FrAE, 1903-5, under Charcot. The Astrolabe 

 was one of the ships of the Fr. exp. under D'Urville, 

 1837-40. Not adopted: Aiguille de 1' Astrolabe 

 [French] . 



ASTRUP, CAPE : bold, dark-colored, bluff mark- 

 ing the NE. end of Wiencke I., in the Palmer Arch.; 

 in 64°43'S., 63°08'W. Disc, by the BelgAE, 1897-99, 

 imder De Gerlache, and named by him for Eivind 

 Astrup, Norwegian Arctic explorer and member of 

 Robert E. Peary's expeditions to Greenland in 

 1891-92 and 1893-95. Not adopted: Cap Edvind 

 Astrup [French]. 



ATHELSTAN, MOUNT: prominent, partly ice- 

 covered mountain, about 5,300 ft. in el., situated at 

 the N. side of Trench Gl. on a spur which extends 

 E. from the Douglas Range, on the E. coast of 

 Alexander I Island; in 70°10'S., 69°16'W. The 

 coast in this vicinity was first photographed from 

 the air on Nov. 23, 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth, and 

 this feature was mapped from the photographs by 

 W. L. G. Joerg. It was roughly surveyed in 1936 

 by the BGLE under Rymill. Resurveyed in 1948 

 and 1949 by the FIDS, and named by them after 

 Athelstan, Saxon king of England, 924-937. 



ATHERTON ISLANDS: two conspicuous islets, 

 about 140 ft. in el., lying about 8 mi. SW. of Stigant 

 Pt., off the N. coast of King George I., in the South 

 Shetland Is.; in about 62°03'S., 58°55'W. Charted 

 and named in 1935 by DI personnel on the Dis- 

 covery II. 



ATKINSON CLIFFS: steep cliffs, about 2,260 ft. 

 in el., about 8 mi. NW. of Cape Barrow on the N. 

 coast of Victoria Land; in about 71°20'S., 168°50'E. 

 Charted in 1911 by the BrAE under Scott, and 

 named for Dr. Edward L. Atkinson, surgeon of the 

 expedition. 



ATLAS COVE: cove on the N. coast of Heard I., 

 entered between the base of Laurens Pen. and 

 Rogers Head; in 53°01'S., 73°22'E. Named by 

 American sealers after the schooner Atlas, a tender 

 to the Corinthian in Capt. Erasmus Darwin Rogers' 

 sealing fleet which landed at Heard I. in 1855. The 

 name appears on a chart by the Br. exp. under 

 Nares, which visited the island in the Challenger 

 in 1874 and utilized the names then in use by the 

 sealers. 



ATRICEPS ISLET: the southernmost and larg- 

 est of the Robertson Is., lying 2 mi. S. of the SE. 

 end of Coronation I., South Orkney Is.; in 60°48'S., 

 45°10'W. Named by the FIDS, following their 

 survey of 1948-49, after the colony of blue-eyed 

 shags (Phalacrocorax atriceps) nesting on the 

 islet. 



ATTLEE GLACIER: glacier about 15 mi. long, 

 which flows SSE. from the plateau escarpment o"n 

 the E. side of Palmer Pen. to the head of Cabinet 

 Inlet between the mouths of the Bevin and Mor- 

 rison Glaciers; in 66°13'S., 63°43'W. During De- 

 cember 1947, the glacier was charted from the 

 ground by the FIDS and photographed from the 

 air by the RARE. Named by the FIDS for Rt. 

 Hon. Clement R. Attlee, M.P., British Sec. of State 

 for Dominion Affairs, member of the War Cabinet, 

 and later Prime Minister. 



ATWOOD, MOUNT: twin-peaked mountain, 

 about 4,000 ft. in el., at the extreme W. edge of the 

 Clark Mtns., rising above the icecap of the Rocke- 

 feller Plateau in Marie Byrd Land; in about 

 77°15'S., 142°09'W. Disc, by the USAS in 1940 in 

 aerial flights from the West Base. Named by the 

 USAS for Pres. Emeritus W. W. Atwood, Sr. of 

 Clark Univ., noted geologist and geographer, and 

 his son, W. W. Atwood, Jr., who has collaborated 

 with his father in glaciological studies. 



AUDREY ISLAND: southernmost islet in the 

 Debenham Is., off the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 

 68°08'S., 67°07'W. Disc, by the BGLE, 1934-37, 

 under Rymill, and named by him for a daughter of 

 Frank Debenham, member of the BGLE Advisory 

 Committee. 



AUGUSTE ISLAND: flat-topped island about 1 

 mi. long, lying in De Gerlache Str. about 4 mi. 

 ENE. of the NW. tip of Two Hummock^ I., off the 



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