GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



rechristened by Byrd as the Bear of Oakland. Not 

 adopted : Bob Bartlett Glacier: 



Basil Halls Island: see Snow Island. 



Bass Rock: see Baldred Rock. 



BASTION PEAK^ ice-capped peak, about 5,300 

 ft. in el., with rocky 'exposures on its S. and E. sides, 

 which forms a buttress to the plateau escarpment 

 W. of Morrison Gl., or the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 66°10'S., 63°35'W. Charted in 1947 and given 

 this descriptive name by the FIDS. It was photo- 

 graphed from the air during 1947 by the RARE 

 under Ronne. 



BATTERBEE, CAPE: ice-covered cape with 

 prominent rock exposures protruding through the 

 coastal ice cliffs, marking the most northerly pro- 

 jection of Enderby Land, just E. of Proclamation I., 

 in about 65°50'S., 53°47'E. Disc, on Jan. 13, 1930 

 by the BANZARE under Mawson, and named by 

 him probably for Sir Harry Fagg Batterbee, then 

 Asst. Sec. of the Dominions Office. 



BATTERBEE MOUNTAINS: group of prominent 

 mountains rising to about 7,300 ft. in el., which 

 form part of the dissected edge of Dyer Plateau 

 overlooking George VI Sound, On the W. side of 

 Palmer Pen.; in about 71°23'S., 66°55'W. Disc, 

 and photographed from the air by Lincoln Ells- 

 worth on Nov. 23, 1935. Charted from the ground 

 in October 1936 by the BGLE under Rymill, and 

 named by him for Sir Harry Fagg Batterbee. 



BAUDIN PEAKS: group of four peaks, the high- 

 est about 3,900 ft. in el., standing at the SE. corner 

 of Mikkelsen Bay, immediately SW. of the mouth 

 of Clarke GL, and about 9 mi. ENE. of Cape Ber- 

 teaux, on the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 68°49'S., 

 67°03'W. This general area was first sighted and 

 roughly charted in 1909 by the FrAE under 

 Charcot, who gave the name "Cap Pierre Baudin" 

 to a cape in this vicinity. The peaks previously 

 described were roughly surveyed in 1936 by the 

 BGLE under Rymill, but no name was assigned to 

 them. The peaks were resurveyed in 1948-49 by 

 the FIDS, who subsequently identified them as the 

 feature named "Cap Pierre Baudin" by Charcot. 

 Named by Charcot for Pierre Baudin, then port 

 engineer at Pernambuco (now Recife), where the 

 Pourquoi-Pas? put in on her return from the 

 Antarctic. Not adopted: Cap Pierre Baudin 

 [French] . 



BAXTER, MOUNT: truncated cone about 8,600 

 ft. in el., between Mt. Levick and Mt. Mackintosh in 

 Victoria Land; in about 74°20'S., 162°30'E. Disc, 

 and named by the BrNAE, 1901-4, under Scott. 



BAY POINT: point which marks the E. side of 

 the entrance to Borgen Bay on the SE. coast of 

 Anvers I., in the Palmer Arch.; in 64°46'S., 63°26'W. 

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

 The name appears on a chart based on a 1927 DI 

 survey, but may reflect an earlier naming. 



BEACH POINT: the NE. tip of Thule I., conspic- 

 uous by a bare rock ridge and a narrow beach of 

 boulders and pebbles, in the South Sandwich Is.; 

 in 59°26'S., 27°16'W. Charted and named in 1930 

 by DI personnel on the Discovery II who made 

 a landing there. 



BEACON HILL: ice-covered, dome-shaped hill, 

 about 5,900 ft. in el., which rises 400 ft. above the 

 surrounding ice, standing 2.5 mi. NE. of the head 

 of Northeast Gl. on the W. side of Palmer Pen.; in 

 68°04'S., 66°24'W. First roughly surveyed in 1936 

 by the BGLE under Rymill. Resurveyed and 

 named by the USAS, 1939-41. The hill may have 

 been the site of a beacon at that time. 



BEAK ISLAND: arc-shaped island, about 4 mi. 

 long and about 1,000 ft. in el., lying 0.25 mi. NE. 

 of Eagle I. in the NE. part of Prince Gustav Chan.; 

 in 63°37'S., 57°20'W. Probably first seen in 

 1902-3 by members of the SwedAE under Norden- 

 skjold. The FIDS surveyed Beak Island in 1945 

 and so named it because of its shape and relative 

 position to nearby Tail and Eagle Islands. 



BE ALE, CAPE : cape which marks the E. extrem- 

 ity of Borradaile I. in the Balleny Is.; in about 

 66°35'S., 162°50'E. Named for W. Beale, a sup- 

 porter of the Br. exp. under Balleny which disc, 

 these islands in 1839. 



BEALE PINNACLE : rock pinnacle about 200 ft. 

 in el., lying close off Cape Beale, the E. extremity 

 of Borradaile I., in the Balleny Is.; in about 

 66°35'S., 162°51'E. Named for W. Beale, a sup- 

 porter of the Br. exp. under Balleny which disc, 

 these islands in 1839. 



BEARDMORE GLACIER: one of the largest 

 known valley glaciers, having an average width of 

 12 mi. and a length of 100 mi., descending from 

 the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf; in about 

 83°30'S., 173°00'E. Disc, in December 1908 by the 

 BrAE under Shackleton, and named by him for 

 Sir William Beardmore (later Lord Invernairn) , a 

 supporter of the expedition. 



BEAR ISLAND: glaciated island about 40 mi. 

 long and 25 mi. wide, with several rocky summits 

 rising to about 2,900 ft. in el., lying about 40 mi. 

 E. of Martin Pen. at the head of Amundsen Sea; 

 in about 74°20'S., 108°40'W. Delineated from 



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