GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



BOWLES, MOUNT: mountain about 3,000 ft. in 

 el., which stands about 4 mi. NW. of Mt. Barnard 

 on the divide between South Bay and Moon Bay, 

 on Livingston I. in the South Shetland Is.; in 

 about 62°35'S., 60°15'W. The name appears on 

 an 1829 chart based upon a Br. exp. under Foster. 



BOWLIN, MOUNT: mountain rising to about 

 7,000 ft. in el., which stands on the E. side of Robert 

 Scott GL, just W. of Mt. Noville, in the Queen 

 Maud Range; in about 86°27'S., 146°45'W. Disc, 

 in December 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party 

 under Quin Blackburn, and named by Byrd for 

 William H. Bowlin, airplane pilot with the expe- 

 dition. 



BOWMAN COAST: that portion of the E. coast 

 of Palmer Pen. extending from Cape Northrop, in 

 67°24'S., 65°16'W., to Cape Agassiz, in 68°30'S., 

 62°58'W. Disc, by Sir Hubert Wilkins in an aerial 

 flight of Dec. 20, 1928. Named by Wilkins for 

 Isaiah Bowman, then Dir. of the American Geo- 

 graphical Society. 



BOWMAN ISLAND: ice-covered island about 15 

 mi. long and from 2 to 6 mi. wide, with a coastal 

 outline resembling the shape of the numeral 8, ly- 

 ing about 21 mi. NE. of Cape Elliott off Knox Coast; 

 in about 65°27'S., 103°18'E. Disc, by the BAN- 

 ZARE under Mawson from the Discovery on Jan. 

 28, 1931 and named for Isaiah Bowman. Not 

 adopted: Bowman Islands. 



Bowman Peak: see John Bowman Peak. 



BOWMAN PENINSULA: peninsula, about 25 mi. 

 long in a N.-S. direction and 15 mi. wide in its N. 

 and central portions, lying between Nantucket 

 and Gardner Inlets on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 74°47'S., 62°22'W. The peninsula is ice covered 

 and narrows toward the S., terminating in Cape 

 Adams. Disc, by the RARE, 1947-48, under Ronne, 

 who named it for Isaiah Bowman. 



BOYD GLACIER: heavily-crevassed glacier, 

 from 6 to 15 mi. wide, in the S. part of the Edsel 

 Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, rising in the vi- 

 cinity of the Clark Mtns. and flowing WNW. about 

 60 mi. to Sulzberger Bay. It is fed by two short, 

 broad tributaries, one from the N., another from 

 the S., and the terminus of the glacier lies in about 

 77°10'S., 145°45'W. Disc, on aerial flights of the 

 ByrdAE in 1934 and named for Vernon D. Boyd, 

 machinist on the exp. and member of West Base 

 of the USAS, 1939-41. Not adopted : Ames Glacier. 



BOYD STRAIT: lies between Snow I. and Smith 

 I., in the South Shetland Is.; in 62°50'S., 62°00'W. 

 Named in 1823 by a Br. exp. under Weddell for 

 Capt. David Boyd, RN. 



BRABANT ISLAND: second largest island of the 

 Palmer Arch., lying between Anvers and Liege 

 Islands; in 64°15'S., 62°20'W. It is about 33 mi. 

 long in a N.-S. direction, 20 mi. wide, and rises to 

 about 6,300 ft. in el. in Mt. Parry. Named by the 

 BelgAE under De Gerlache, 1897-99, for the prov- 

 ince of Brabant, Belgium, in recognition of the 

 support given to the BelgAE by its citizens. 



BRADLEY, MOUNT: pyramidal peak about 

 2,800 ft. in el., which lies about 6 mi. WSW. of Pitt 

 Pt. on the SE. side of Louis Philippe Pen.; in 

 63°53'S., 58°37'W. First charted in 1945 by the 

 FIDS, who named it for K. G. Bradley, at that time 

 Colonial Sec. in the Falkland Islands. 



BRAIN ISLAND: islet at the N. side of Husvik 

 Hbr., in Stromness Bay, South Georgia; in 

 54°10'S., 36°42'W. Charted and named by DI 

 personnel in 1928. 



Branca, Mount: see Rio Branco, Mount. 



Brand-Berg: see Brandt, Mount. 



BRANDT, MOUNT: mountain projecting 

 through the icecap at the N. margin of the New 

 Schwabenland piedmont; in about 72°25'S., 

 1°00'E. Disc, by the GerAE under Ritscher, 

 1938-39, and named for Emil Brandt, a sailor on 

 the expedition. Not adopted: Brand-Berg [Ger- 

 man]. 



BRANSFIELD, MOUNT: prominent, conical- 

 topped, ice-covered mountain, about 2,500 ft. in el., 

 about 2 mi. SW. of Cape Dubouzet, the NE. tip of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 63°17'S., 57°06'W. Disc, by a Fr. 

 exp., 1837-40, under D'Urville, who named it for 

 Edward Bransfield, Master, RN, who circumnavi- 

 gated and charted the South Shetland Is. in 1820. 

 Not adopted: Mount Hope. 



Bransfield, Point: see Bransfield Island. 



BRANSFIELD ISLAND: circular island about 

 3.5 mi. in diameter, lying 2 mi. SW. of D'Urville I., 

 the northernmost of the Joinville I. group, off the 

 NE. end of Palmer Pen.; in 63°12'S., 56°38'W. The 

 name Point Bransfield, after Edward Bransfield, 

 Master, RN, was given in 1842 by a Br. exp. under 

 Ross to the low western termination of what is 

 now the Joinville I. group. A 1947 survey by the 

 FIDS determined that this western termination is 

 a separate island. Not adopted: Point Bransfield. 



BRANSFIELD ROCKS: group of rocks lying 

 some 23 mi. ENE. of North Foreland, King George 

 I., in the South Shetland Is.; in about 61°45'S., 

 56°51'W. These rocks were reported in 1926 to 

 lie SW. of this position. Named for Edward Brans- 



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