GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



field, Master, RN, who reported their presence in 

 1820. 



BRANSFIELD STRAIT: body of water about 60 

 mi. wide extending for 200 mi. in a general 

 NE.-SW. direction between the South Shetland Is. 

 and Palmer Pen.; centering in 63°S., 59°W. Named 

 in about 1825 by James Weddell, Master, RN, for 

 Edward Bransfield, Master, RN. 



BRANSTETTER ROCKS : small group of offshore 

 rocks, lying about 1 mi. ENE. of Thil It. and about 

 0.2 mi. W. of a small rocky bluff, which may later 

 prove to be an island, close off Ingrid Christensen 

 Coast; in about 70°08'S., 71°53'E. Delineated in 

 1952 by John H. Roscoe from aerial photographs 

 taken by USN Op. Hjp. in March 1947, and named 

 by him for J. C. Branstetter, air crewman on USN 

 Op. Hjp. photographic flights in this area and 

 other coastal areas between 14° and 164°, east 

 longitude. 



BRATEGG BANK: submarine bank lying W. of 

 Palmer Pen., about 65 mi. NW. of the central part 

 of the Biscoe Is.; in about 65°16'S., 68°35'W. The 

 bank was charted by the Norwegian ship Brategg 

 in 1948. Not adopted: Bratteggen [Norwegian]. 



Bratholm: see Steepholm. 



Bratteggen: see Brategg Bank. 



Braun Berg: see Brown Mountain. 



BREAKWATER ISLET: islet, marked by a string 

 of rocks extending in a SW. arc, lying 0.5 mi. off 

 the E. side of Wiencke I., in the Palmer Arch.; in 

 64°47'S., 63°13'W. Disc, and named by the FIDS 

 in 1944. 



BREAKWIND RIDGE: prominent rocky ridge, 

 about 2 mi. long in a N.-S. direction and 2,000 ft. 

 in el., standing close SW. of the head of Fortuna 

 Bay on the N. coast of South Georgia; in 54°09'S., 

 36°50'W. The name Breakwind Range was prob- 

 ably applied by DI personnel who mapped Fortuna 

 Bay in 1929-30. Following a resurvey by the SGS, 

 1951-52, the descriptive term was altered to ridge, 

 which is more suitable than range for this rela- 

 tively small feature. The name Breakwind sug- 

 gests a beneficial function of this ridge in protect- 

 ing anchorages at Fortuna Bay from violent south- 

 west and westerly winds. Not adopted : Breakwind 

 Range. 



Breckenridge, Mount: see Breckinridge, Mount. 



BRECKINRIDGE, MOUNT: peak in the N. group 

 of the Rockefeller Mtns., standing about 2.1 mi. SW. 

 of Mt. Nilsen on Edward VII "Pen.; in about 



78°03'S., 155°28'W. Disc, by the BydrAE in 1929 

 and named by R. Adm. Byrd for Col. and Mrs. 

 Henry Breckinridge of New York. Not adopted: 

 Mount Breckenridge. 



BREID BAY: bay about 20 mi. wide, which ir- 

 regularly indents, for as much as 12 mi., the Prin- 

 cess Ragnhild Coast; in about 70°20'S., 23°00'E. 

 This bay wis charted and named Breidvika by 

 H. E. Hansen, as a result of aerial photographs 

 made on Feb. 6, 1937 by members of a Nor. exp. 

 under Christensen. Not adopted: Breidvika [Nor- 

 wegian], Broad Bay. 



Breidneset: see Breidnes Peninsula. 



BREIDNES PENINSULA : rocky peninsula, about 

 7 mi. long and from 2 to 5 mi. wide, extending W. 

 from the main section of the Vestfold Hills, on 

 Ingrid Christensen Coast; in about 68°35'S., 

 78°10'E. The name derives from Breidneset (the 

 broad headland) as applied on the H. E. Hansen 

 charts compiled from aerial photographs taken 

 in January 1937 by the Nor. exp. under Lars 

 Christensen. Not adopted: Breidneset [Norwe- 

 gian]. 



Breidvika: see Breid Bay. 



BREITFUSS GLACIER: glacier about 10 mi. 

 long, which flows S. from an el. of 5,000 ft. into Mill 

 Inlet, close W. of Cape Chavanne, on the E. coast 

 of Palmer Pen.; in 66°58'S., 64°52'W. Charted by 

 the FIDS and photographed from the air by the 

 RARE in 1947. Named by the FIDS for Leonid 

 Breitfuss, German polar explorer, historian, and 

 author of many polar bibliographies. Not adopted : 

 Wilson Glacier. 



BREWSTER, MOUNT: mountain at the S. end 

 of the Admiralty Range, about 4,000 ft. in el., 

 standing on the SW. side of Tucker Inlet, near 

 the N. end of Victoria Land; in about 72°50'S., 

 169°20'E. Disc, in 1841 by a Br. exp. under Ross, 

 who named it for Sir David Brewster, Scottish 

 physicist. 



BREYER, MOUNT: sentinel- type mountain 

 about 11,700 ft. in el., standing on the W. side of 

 the upper reaches of Amundsen Gl. about 15 mi. 

 ENE. of Mt. Helmer Hanssen, in the Queen Maud 

 Range; in about 86°00'S., 160°30'W. This moun- 

 tain was disc, by R. Adm. Byrd on the ByrdAE 

 flight to the South Pole in November 1929. On 

 a subsequent chart, however, the name Mount 

 Breyer was applied to the mountain to the W. that 

 has now been identified as the feature named 

 Mount Helmer Hanssen by the Nor. exp. under 

 Amundsen in November 1911. The US- AC AN ap- 

 plied the name Mount Breyer to this hitherto un- 



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