GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



AXEL HEIBERG GLACIER: valley glacier about 

 6 mi. wide and 30 mi. long, which descends from 

 the south polar plateau and flows NE. between 

 Mounts Fridtjof Nansen and Don Pedro Chris- 

 tophersen, in the Queen Maud Range, and merges 

 with the head of Ross Ice Shelf; in about 85°25'S., 

 164°40'W. Disc, in 1911 by the Nor. exp. under 

 Amundsen, and named by him for Consul Axel 

 Heiberg, Norwegian businessman and patron of 

 science, who contributed to numerous Norweigan 

 polar expeditions. 



AZIMUTH HILL: rocky outcrop, about 700 ft. 

 in el., lying at the terminus of East Russell Gl., on 

 the SE. side of Louis Philippe Pen.; in 63°45'S., 

 58°18'W. So named by the FIDS following their 

 survey of the area in 1946 because a sun azimuth 

 was obtained from a cairn built near the E. end 

 of the hill. 



BABE ISLET: islet which lies in the entrance to 

 Cobblers Cove, along the N. coast of South Georgia; 

 in 54°16'S., 36°18'W. Charted and named by DI 

 personnel in 1929. 



BACK BAY: bay about 0.5 mi. wide in the W. 

 coast of Palmer Pen., entered between Boulder Pt., 

 Stonington I, and Fitzroy It.; in 68°11'S., 67°00'W. 

 The N. shore of the bay is formed by Northeast Gl. 

 The bay was first surveyed by the USAS, 1939-41, 

 and so named by them because of its location at the 

 rear (northeast) side of Stonington Island. Not 

 adopted: Back Bay Cove. 



BACKDOOR BAY: small bay lying at the E. side 

 of Cape Royds, along the W. side of Ross I.; in 

 77°33'S., 166°09'E. The BrAE, 1907-9, under 

 Shackleton, unloaded supplies at Backdoor Bay 

 for use at their winter headquarters on Cape Royds. 

 So named by them because it lies at the back (east) 

 side of Cape Royds, and opposite the small cove on 

 the W. side of the cape known to the exp. as 

 "Front Door" bay. 



BACKSTAIRS PASSAGE GLACIER: narrow, 

 steep distributary of Larsen Gl. about 2 mi. long, 

 flowing NE. between Mt. De Gerlache and Mt. 

 Crummer to the confluent ice at the head of Terra 

 Nova Bay, on the coast of Victoria Land; in about 

 75°03'S., 162°40'E. Disc, by a party of the BrAE, 

 1907-9, under Shackleton, and so named by them 

 because of their circuitous climb up this glacier 

 to get to Larsen Gl. on their way to the South 

 Magnetic Pole. 



BAFFLE ROCK: small rock, just visible at the 

 surface at high tide, lying in the center of the deep 

 water channel approach to Stonington I., 0.6 mi. 

 NW. of .the W. tip of Neny I. and the same distance 

 NE. of Runaway It. in Marguerite Bay, in 68°12'S., 



67°05'W. The rock was surveyed in 1947 by the 

 FIDS, and so named by them because it is difficult 

 to see and hinders approaching ships. 



BAGE, CAPE: cape separating Ainsworth and 

 Murphy Bays on George V Coast; in about 67'43'S., 

 146°35'E. Disc, in 1912 by the AAE under Mawson, 

 who named it for Lt. R. Bage, astronomer, asst. 

 magnetician and recorder of tides with the Main 

 Base Party. 



BAGSHAWE, MOUNT: southernmost and high- 

 est of the Batterbee Mtns., about 7,300 ft. in el., 

 standing about 10 mi. inland from George VI Sound 

 on the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 71°27'S., 

 67°06'W. This mountain was first seen and photo- 

 graphed from the air on Nov. 23, 1935 by Lincoln 

 Ellsworth, and was mapped from these photographs 

 by W. L. G. Joerg. It was surveyed in 1936 by the 

 BGLE under Rymill, and later named for Sir Arthur 

 W. G. Bagshawe, British authority on tropical medi- 

 cine, who raised a special fund to defray the ex- 

 penses of biological equipment for the BGLE, 

 1934-37. 



BAIE: for names beginning thus see under the 

 specific part of the name. For example, for Bale 

 de I'Amiraute see Amiraute, Bale de 1'. (Bale is a 

 French word for "bay.") 



Bale E. Fournier: see Fournier Bay. 



BAILEY MOUNT: mountain about 4,700 ft. in el., 

 which stands S. of Anthony Gl. and about 6 mi. 

 WSW. of Lewis Pt., on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 70°00'S., 63°13'W. Charted in 1936-37 by a 

 BGLE sledge party under Rymill. It was recharted 

 in 1947 by a joint sledge party consisting of mem- 

 bers of the RARE, under Ronne, and the FIDS. 

 Named by Ronne for Cdr. Clay W. Bailey, USN, 

 member of the ByrdAE, 1933-35, and the West Base 

 party of the USAS, 1939-41, who assisted in out- 

 lining the RARE radio requirements. 



Bailey Glacier: see Friederichsen Glacier. 



BAILEY ISLAND: rocky island about 1.8 mi. 

 long and 1 mi. wide, lying between Clark and 

 Mitchell Islands which, collectively, form the group 

 of three principal islands at the NE. end of the 

 Windmill Is. that lie close against Budd Coast; in 

 66°18'S., 110°28'E. Delineated from USN Op. Hjp. 

 aerial photographs taken in February 1947 which 

 indicate that these three islands are connected by 

 a steep snow ramp to the continental ice overlying 

 Budd Coast. Prominent end moraine deposits 

 overlie and parallel the upper margin of this snow 

 ramp about 1 mi. from its outer edge of Clark, 

 Bailey and Mitchell Islands. Named by the 

 US-ACAN for Cdr. Claude E. Bailey, USN, captain of 



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