GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



BUTTRESS HILL: flat-topped hill, about 2,300 

 ft. in el., with steep rock cliffs on the W. side, over- 

 looking Duse Bay about 2 mi. E. of the most north- 

 ern of the Seven Buttresses, in the NE. extremity 

 of Palmer Pen.; in 63°34'S., 57°03'W. Charted and 

 given this descriptive name by the FIDS following 

 their survey in 1946. 



BUTTRESS NUNATAKS: group of prominent 

 rock exposures, the highest about 2,100 ft. in el., 

 lying close inland from George VI Sound and about 

 13 mi. W. of the Seward Mtns., on the W. coast of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 72°22'S., 66°47'W. First seen from 

 a distance and roughly surveyed in 1936 by the 

 BGLE under Rymill. Visited and resurveyed in 

 1949 by the FIDS, who gave this descriptive name. 



BYRD, CAPE: sharp ice-covered cape forming 

 the NW. extremity of Charcot I.; in about 69°58'S., 

 75°55'W. Disc, by Sir Hubert Wilkins, Dec. 29, 

 1929, in a flight from the William Scoresby. Named 

 by Wilkins for R. Adm. Richard E. Byrd, USN 

 (Ret.), Antarctic explorer. 



BYRD HEAD: rocky, conspicuous promontory 

 on Mac-Robertson Coast, forming the W. side of 

 the entrance of Howard Bay; in about 67°26'S., 

 61°04'E. Toward the head of Howard Bay, Byrd 

 Head rises to an el. of about 1,100 ft. Disc, on 

 Feb. 18, 1931 by the BANZARE under Mawson, who 

 named it for R. Adm. Richard E. Byrd, USN (Ret.) . 

 Not adopted : Bergnes [Norwegian] . 



Byrd Mountains: see Harold Byrd Mountains. 



CABINET INLET: ice-filled inlet, about 36 mi. 

 long in a NNW.-SSE. direction, and some 27 mi. 

 wide at its entrance between Capes Alexander and 

 Robinson, off the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 

 66°35'S., 63°10'W. Charted by the FIDS and 

 photographed from the air by the RARE in De- 

 cember 1947. Named by the FIDS for the British 

 War Cabinet which authorized the FIDS in 1943. 



CACHALOT ROCK: isolated rock about 6 mi. 

 SW. of Signy I., in the South Orkney Is.; in 

 60°49'S., 45°49'W. The name appears on a map 

 based upon a 1933 survey of the South Orkney 

 Is. by DI personnel on the Discovery II. The term 

 cachalot, of French origin, is applied to the sperm 

 whale. Not adopted: Cachelot Rock. 



Cachelot Rock: see Cachalot Rock. 



CADBURY, MOUNT: easternmost of the Batter- 

 bee Mtns., about 5,900 ft. in el., standing ESE. of 

 Mt. Ness and about 18 mi. inland from George VI 

 Sound on the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 71°21'S., 

 66'=38'W. The coast in this vicinity was first seen 

 and photographed from the air on Nov. 23, 1935 



by Lincoln Ellsworth, but this mountain seems to 

 have been obscured from Ellsworth's line of sight 

 by clouds or intervening summits. Mount Cad- 

 bury was surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE under 

 Rymill, and later named for Mrs. Henry Tyler 

 Cadbury, who raised a special fund to defray the 

 cost of refitting the Penola, the ship of the BGLE, 

 at South Georgia in 1936. 



CADMAN GLACIER: glacier, about 1.5 mi. wide 

 at its mouth and at least 7 mi. long, fiowing W. 

 and then NW. into the head of the southern arm 

 of Beascoches Bay, on the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 65°37'S., 63°49'W. This glacier was first sighted 

 and roughly surveyed in 1909 by the FrAE under 

 Charcot. It was surveyed in 1935 by the BGLE 

 under Rymill, and later named for John Cadman, 

 1st Baron Cadman of Silverdale, who contributed 

 toward the cost of the BGLE, 1934-37. 



CAIRD COAST: that portion of the coast of 

 Coats Land between 20 °W. and 29 °W. Named in 

 1915 by a Br. exp. under Shackleton for Sir James 

 Caird, patron of the expedition. Not adopted: 

 Caird Land. 



Caird Land: see Caird Coast. 



CAIRN HILL: hill with two summits, about 

 1,500 ft. in el., about 2 mi. E. of the NE. shore 

 of Duse Bay, at the NE. extremity of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 63°30'S., 57°04'W. First charted by the FIDS 

 in 1946, who so named it because a cairn was 

 erected on the eastern of the two summits. 



CALAIS, MOUNT: massive mountain, about 

 7,700 ft. in el., standing at the NW. side of Scho- 

 kalsky Bay in the NE. part of Alexander I Island; 

 in 69°11'S., 70°15'W. First roughly surveyed in 

 1909 by the FrAE under Charcot. Named by Char- 

 cot, presumably for the French city Calais. The 

 mountain was resurveyed in 1948 by the FIDS. 

 Not adopted : Massif Calais [French] . 



Calais, Massif: see Calais, Mount. 



CALF HEAD: rocky headland on the N. coast 

 of South Georgia, about 3 mi. NW. of Cape Har- 

 court, at the W. end of Sacramento Bight; in 

 54°28'S., 36°03'W. The name "Kalber-Berg" 

 (meaning Calf Mountain) was given by a Ger. exp. 

 under Schrader, 1882-83, but was limited to the 

 summit of the headland now described. The fea- 

 ture was surveyed by the SGS, 1951-52, who re- 

 ported that a name is more essential for its sea- 

 ward extremity in order to distinguish it from 

 Cape Harcourt, with which it is easily confused 

 when viewed from N. and NW. The English form 

 of the name. Calf Head, was recommended for 



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