GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 64°04'S., 6r32'W. 

 Disc, by the BelgAE, 1897-99, under De Gerlache, 

 and named by him for his father. 



AUREOLE HILLS: two smooth, conical, ice- 

 covered hills about 2,800 ft. in el., standing close 

 W. of the N. end of Detroit Plateau and about 6 

 mi. S. of Bone Cove, on the NW. side of Louis 

 Philippe Pen.; in 63°46'S., 58°54'W. Named by 

 the FIDS following their survey in 1948. The 

 name is descriptive. 



AURORA PEAK: peak about 1,750 ft. in el., 

 which lies about 4 mi. SSW. of Mt. Murchison on 

 George V Coast; in about 67°23'S., 144°12'E. Disc, 

 in 1912 by the AAE under Mawson, and named by 

 him for the exp. ship Aurora. 



AUSTIN, MOUNT: conspicuous rock mass about 

 3,100 ft. in el., projecting into the W. side of 

 Gardner Inlet, on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 

 74°53'S., 63°10'W. Disc, by the RARE, 1947-48, 

 under Ronne, and named by him for Stephen F. 

 Austin, American colonizer in Texas and one of the 

 founders of the Republic of Texas. Not adopted: 

 Mount Stephen Austin. 



AUSTIN ROCKS: group of rocks which extend 

 about 3 mi. in an ENE.-WSW. direction, lying in 

 Bransfield Str. about 16 mi. NW. of the NW. end 

 of Trinity I., in about 63°26'S., 61°05'W. Charted 

 by a Br. exp., 1828-31, under Foster, and named 

 by him for Lt. H. F. Austin, an officer of the 

 expedition. 



AUSTNES POINT: sharp, narrow projection of 

 the coastline at the E. edge of Enderby Land, 

 forming the N. side of the entrance to Edward VIII 

 Bay; in about 66°45'S., 57°17'E. Disc, and mapped 

 by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photo- 

 graphs taken by a Nor. exp. under Christensen in 

 January-February 1937 and named Austnes by 

 them because of its eastward projection. Not 

 adopted: Austnes [Norwegian]. 



Austskotet: see East Stack. 



AUVERT BAY: embayment of undetermined 

 length and a width of about 10 mi., lying between 

 Cape Evensen and Cape Bellue along the W. coast 

 of Palmer Pen.; in about 66°15'S., 65°50'W. Disc, 

 and named by the FrAE, 1908-10, under Charcot. 

 Not adopted: Auvert Fiord, Evensen Bay. 



Auvert Fiord: see Auvert Bay. 



AVALANCHE BAY: bay about 1 mi. wide at its 

 entrance, which lies directly E. of Discovery Bluff 

 in the S. part of Granite Hbr., along the E. coast of 

 Victoria Land; in about 77°01'S., 162°44'E. 



Charted by the BrAE, 1910-13, under Scott. So 

 named by members of the exp. because they heard 

 several avalanches while sledging in this locality. 



AVALANCHE CORRIE: an ice-filled cirque, or 

 corrie, close N. of Amphibolite Pt. on the S. coast 

 of Coronation I., South Orkney Is.; in 60°41'S., 

 45°22'W. So named by the FIDS, following their 

 survey of 1948-49, because of the continuous ava- 

 lanches from the hanging glaciers above the corrie. 



AVALANCHE ROCKS: vertical rock outcrop, 

 about 400 yards long and about 600 ft. in el., stand- 

 ing midway between Delay Pt. and Jones Rocks on 

 Queen Mary Coast; in about 66°32'S., 97°56'E. 

 Disc, in September 1912 by the AAE under Mawson, 

 and so named because of the occurrence of a tre- 

 mendous avalanche while members of the exp. 

 were encamped nearby. 



AVERS, MOUNT: mountain about 4,500 ft. in 

 el., which lies at the W. end of the main flat-topped 

 massif of the Fosdick Mtns. of the Edsel Ford 

 Ranges, in Marie Byrd Land; in about 76°28'S., 

 145°25'W. Disc, in December 1929 by the ByrdAE 

 and named for Henry G. Avers, chief mathemati- 

 cian of the Division of Geodesy, U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, who was a member of the 

 National Geographic Soc. Commission of Experts 

 which determined that Cdr. (later R. Adm.) 

 Richard E. Byrd reached the North Pole by air- 

 plane, 1926, and the South Pole, 1929. 



AVERY PLATEAU: ice-covered plateau, about 

 17 mi. long and 8 mi. wide, which rises above 6,000 

 ft. in el. and stands midway between Loubet Coast 

 and Foyn Coast on Palmer Pen.; in 67°00'S., 

 65°35'W. The first sighting of this plateau is not 

 ascertained, but it was presumably seen in January 

 and February of 1909 by members of the FrAE 

 under Charcot from various positions in Matha 

 Strait. It was surveyed in 1946-47 by the FIDS, 

 who named it for Mr. Avery, skipper of the cutter 

 Lively, who, with Capt. John Biscoe in the brig 

 Tula, approached this part of Palmer Pen. in 

 February 1832. 



AVIAN ISLET: largest and easternmost of the 

 Henkes Its., being 0.75 mi. long and 140 ft. in el., 

 lying close off the S. coast of Adelaide I.; in 

 67°46'S., 68°54'W. Disc, and charted by the FrAE, 

 1908-10, under Charcot. First visited and sur- 

 veyed in 1948 by the FIDS who so named it because 

 of the large number and variety of birds found 

 there. 



Avion, Islotes: see Sigma Islets. 



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