GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



name is approved on the basis of local usage. 

 Not adopted: Hauptinsel [German-]. 



BRoGGER, MOUNT: mountain about 4,200 ft. 

 in el., which forms part of the N. wall of Cleveland 

 Gl. about 4 mi. NW. of the confluence of the Cleve- 

 land and Mackay Glaciers, in Victoria Land; in 

 about 76°52'S., 161°55'E. Charted by the BrAE, 

 1910-13, under Scott, anti named for Prof. Walde- 

 mar C. Brogger, Norwegian geologist and mineralo- 

 gist. 



BRoGGER GLACIER: glacier which flows in a 

 W. direction to the E. side of Undine South Hbr., 

 on the S. coast of South Georgia; in 54°32'S., 

 36°27'W. The name appears on a chart by Prof. 

 Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist who con- 

 ducted investigations in South Georgia in 1928, 

 and is probably for Prof. Waldemar Brogger. 



BROKA ISLAND: rocky island about 4 mi. long 

 and 3 mi. wide, rising to an el. of about 460 ft., 

 lying about 2 mi. off Kemp Coast and about 18 

 mi. NW. of the entrance to Stefansson Bay; in 

 about 67°05'S., 58°40'E. This island may have 

 been seen in February 1936 by DI personnel on the 

 William Scoresby, but if so it was considered by 

 them as part of the mainland. It was mapped 

 as an island by Norwegian cartographers from 

 aerial photographs taken on a Nor. exp. under 

 Christensen in January-February 1937, and prob- 

 ably so named by them because of its nature or 

 appearance. 



BROKEN ISLAND : isla;nd about 3 mi. long and 

 1.5 mi. wide, which lies 1 mi. N. of Centre I. in 

 the N. part of Square Bay, off the W. coast of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 67°49'S., 66°57'W. Disc, and 

 named by the BGLE under Rymill, 1934-37. 



BROMS, CAPE: cape which marks the S. side 

 of the entrance to Rdhss Bay on the SW. side of 

 James Ross I., off the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; in 

 64°20'S., 58°18'W. Disc, by the SwedAE, 1901-4, 

 under Nordenskjold, who named it for G. E. Broms, 

 a patron of the expedition. 



BROOKLYN ISLAND: island about 3 mi. long 

 and 2 mi. wide, which lies about 1 mi. N. of Wyck 

 I. in the E. part of Wilhelmina Bay, off the W. 

 coast of Palmer Pen.; in 64°35'S., 61°51'W. Disc, 

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

 named after the home of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, 

 American member of the BelgAE who served as 

 surgeon, anthropologist, and photographer. 



BROOKS, CAPE: cape marked by steep, con- 

 spicuous walls which rise to about 1,500 ft. in el, 

 forming the S. side of the entrance to New Bed- 

 ford Inlet, on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 



73"36'S., 60°46'W. Disc, and photographed from 

 the air in December 1940 by members of the USAS. 

 During 1947 the cape was photographed from the 

 air by members of the RARE, who in conjunction 

 with the FIDS charted it from the ground. Named 

 by the FIDS for Charles E. P. Brooks, English 

 meteorologist on the staff of the Meteorological 

 Office, 1907-49. 



Brothers, The: see Sorn and Bernt. 



Brothers Hill: see Three Brothers Hill. 



BROTHERS ROCKS : group of rocks surrounded 

 by foul ground, about 1 mi. E. of the N. part 

 of Saunders I., in the South Sandwich Is.; in 

 57°46'S., 26°25'W. Charted and named in 1930 

 by DI personnel on the Discovery II. Not adopted: 

 The Brothers Rocks. 



BROUARDEL POINT: point on the SW. side of 

 the Mt. Lacroix peninsula, marking the E. side of 

 the entrance to Port Charcot, Booth I., off the W. 

 coast of Palmer Pen.; in about 65°03'S., 64°00'W. 

 First charted by the FrAE, 1903-5, under Charcot. 

 Named for Doctor Brouardel, identified by Charcot 

 as a member of the Institut de France. Not 

 adopted: Point Brouardel. 



Broune Insel: see Brown Island. 



BROWN, CAPE: prominent ice-covered cape 

 about 5.5 mi. NNE. of the summit of Mt. Nicholas, 

 marking the E. side of the entrance to Schokalsky 

 Bay on the NE. coast of Alexander I Island; in 

 69°16'S., 69°45'W. First seen from a distance 

 by the FrAE under Charcot in 1909, but charted as 

 part of a small island. It was photographed from 

 the air in 1937 by the BGLE under Rymill, and 

 later roughly mapped from the photographs. Sur- 

 veyed from the ground in 1948 by Colin C. Brown, 

 FIDS surveyor at Stonington I., 1948-49, for whom 

 the cape is named. 



BROWN, MOUNT: elongated rock peak protrud- 

 ing slightly above the continental ice behind Wil- 

 helm II Coast, rising to about 7,000 ft. in el., about 

 100 mi. SSW. of Cape Penck; in about 68°15'S., 

 86°30'E. This isolated nunatak lies at the E. side 

 of a series of heavily crevassed domes on the ice 

 surface, indicating an area of completely buried 

 mountain peaks. Delineated from aerial photo- 

 graphs taken by USN Op. Hjp, 1946-47, and named 

 by the US-ACAN for Lt. (jg) Eduardo P. Brown, 

 USN, photographic officer of the western task 

 group of USN Op. Hjp., Task Force 68. 



BROWN BLUFF: ice-capped, fiat-topped moun- 

 tain, about 2,400 ft. in el., with a prominent cliff 

 of reddish-brown volcanic rock on the N. face, about 



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