GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



BOOTHBY, CAPE : rounded cape on a large pro- 

 jection of the coast at the E. edge of Enderby Land, 

 just N. of Edward VIII Bay; in about 66°36'S., 

 57^15'E. Disc, by DI personnel on the William 

 Scoresby on about Feb. 28, 1936, and named by 

 them for the captain of the William Scoresby, Lt. 

 Cdr. C. R. U. Boothby, RNR. 



BOOTH ISLAND: V-shaped island, about 5 mi. 

 long and 3 mi wide at the N. end, rising to about 

 3,100 ft. in el., lying in the Dannebrog Is. about 

 7 mi. WSW. of Cape Renard, off the W. coast of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 65°05'S., 64°00'W. Disc, and 

 named by a Ger. exp., 1873-74, under Dallmann, 

 probably for Oskar Booth, or Stanley Booth, or 

 both, members of the Hamburg Geographical Soc. 

 at that time. The US-AC AN has rejected the 

 name Wandel Island, applied by the BelgAE under 

 De Gerlache, 1897-99, in favor of the original nam- 

 ing. Not adopted: Wandel Island. 



BOOT ROCK: rock about 105 ft. in el., which 

 lies 0.1 mi. off the SE. side of Candlemas I., in 

 the South Sandwich Is.; in 57°03'S., 26°39'W. 

 Charted and named by DI personnel on the Dis- 

 covery II in 1930. 



BORCHGREVINK NUNATAK: nunatak about 

 2 mi. long and about 2,100 ft. in el., which stands 

 at the S. side of the entrance to Richthofen Valley, 

 on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 66°03'S., 62°30'W. 

 Disc, in 1902 by the SwedAE under Nordenskjold, 

 who named it for C. E. Borchgrevink, leader of the 

 BrAE, 1898-1900. The nunatak was charted by 

 the FIDS and photographed from the air by the 

 RARE in 1947. Not adopted: Borchgrewingk 

 Nunatak, Borchgrewink Nunatak. 



Borchgrewingk Nunatak; Borchgrewink Nuna- 

 tak: see Borchgrevink Nunatak. 



BOREAS NUNATAK: a nunatak on Princess 

 Martha Coast, standing close W. of Passat Nunatak 

 and fronting on the large ice shelf that here 

 fringes the coast; in about 71°18'S., 4°00'W. Disc. 

 by the GerAE, 1938-39, under Ritscher, and named 

 for one of the Dornier flying boats of the 

 expedition. 



Bores Dal: see Bore Valley. 



BORE VALLEY: valley, almost 2 mi. long in a 

 N.-S. direction, extending from Maiviken to 

 Grytviken in Cumberland Bay, South Georgia; in 

 54n6'S.', 36°31'W. It was first surveyed and 

 named "Bores Dal" by the SwedAE under Nor- 

 denskjold, 1901-4, but the form Bore Valley has 

 since become well established for the feature. The 

 discovery by J. Gunnar Andersson, of the SwedAE, 

 of numerous traces of a former ice covering, prov- 



ing that ice had once filled the entire valley, sug- 

 gested the name. Bore is the Swedish word for 

 Boreas, the god of the north wind. Not adopted: 

 Bores Dal [Swedish] , Mai Viken Glen. 



BORGE BAY: small bay between Balin and 

 Berntsen Points, on the E. side of Signy I., in the 

 South Orkney Is.; in 60°43'S., 45°36'W. Charted 

 in 1912 by a Nor. exp. under S0rlle. Named for 

 Capt. Hans Borge, master of the Polynesia, who 

 undertook additional mapping of the bay during 

 the following year. Not adopted: Borge Harbor, 

 Queens Bay. 



Borge Harbor: see Borge Bay. 



Borge Havna: see Factory Cove. 



BoRGEN BAY: circular bay about 3 mi. wide, 

 indenting the SE. coast of Anvers I. close W. of 

 Bay Pt., in the Palmer Arch.; in 64°44'S., 63°30'W. 

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

 and named by him, probably for Karl Borgen, Ger- 

 man astronomer. Not adopted: Borgen Bay, Wil- 

 liam Bay. 



BORLEY, CAPE: cape projecting slightly from 

 the coast of Enderby Land; in about 65°57'S., 

 55°13'E. Disc, by the BANZARE under Mawson 

 on about Jan. 12, 1930. John Oliver Borley was 

 a member of the Discovery Committee. 



BORLEY POINT: the NW. tip of Montagu I., 

 in the South Sandwich Is.; in 58°23'S., 26°28'W. 

 Charted in 1930 by DI personnel on the Discovery 

 II and named for John Oliver Borley. 



Borodino Island: see Smith Island. 



BORRADAILE ISLAND: one of the Balleny Is., 

 about 2 mi. long and 1 mi. wide, lying about 5 mi. 

 S. of the SE. end of Young I.; in about 66°35'S., 

 162°50'E. Disc, in February 1839 by a Br. exp. 

 under Balleny, who named it for W. Borradaile, 

 one of the merchants who united with Charles 

 Enderby in sending out the expedition. Not 

 adopted: Borradaille Island, Borradaile Oya [Nor- 

 wegian] . 



Borradaille Island; Borradali Oya: see Borradaile 

 Island. 



BOTANY BAY: small bight between Cape Geol- 

 ogy and Discovery Bluff, on the S. side of Granite 

 Hbr., along the E. coast of Victoria Land; in about 

 77°00'S., 162°37'E. Charted by the Western Ge- 

 ological Party of the BrAE under Scott, who ex- 

 plored the Granite Hbr. area in 1911-12. Named 

 T. Griffith Taylor and Frank Debenham, Austral- 



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