GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



1852-55 his own account of the voyage in Four 

 Years in the Government Exploring Expedition 

 Commanded by Captain Wilkes. 



COMAN, MOUNT: mountain about 12,000 ft. in 

 el., which lies about 50 mi. W. of Mt. Tricorn, 

 inland from the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in about 

 74 02'S., 65''04'W. Disc, by the RARE under 

 Ronne, 1947-48, who named it for Dr. F. Dana 

 Coman, physician with the By^rdAE, 1928-30. Not 

 adopted: Mount Dana Coman. 



COMB RIDGE: ridge about 400 ft. in el., which 

 forms the E. and major part of the hill at the N. 

 end of The Naze, a peninsula of northern James 

 Ross I., lying S. of the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 63°55'S., 57°28'W. Probably first sighted in 

 1902 by the SwedAE under Nordenskjbld. It was 

 charted and given this descriptive name by the 

 FIDS in 1946. 



COMBS, MOUNT: mountain which lies W. of 

 Carroll Inlet on George Bryan Coast; in about 

 73°03'S., 81°25'W. Disc, by the RARE under 

 Ronne, 1947-48, who named it for Rep. J. M. 

 Combs, of Beaumont, Texas, who did much to gain 

 support for the expedition. 



COMMANDANT CHARCOT GLACIER : promi- 

 nent glacier about 3 mi. wide and 12 mi. long, flow- 

 ing NNW. from the continental ice to its terminus 

 at the head of Victor Bay, on Adelie Coast, in 

 66°25'S., 136°35'E. Delineated from aerial photo- 

 graphs taken by USN Op. Hjp., 1946-47. The 

 FrAE under Marret sledged W. along Adelie Coast 

 to Victor Bay, close E. of this glacier, in December 

 1952. Named for the French polar ship Com- 

 mandant Charcot which transported expeditions 

 under Liotard in 1948-49 and 1949-51, and Barre 

 in 1951-52. Not adopted: Commandant Drovcot 

 Glacier. 



Commandant Drovcot Glacier: see Coirmiandant 

 Charcot Glacier. 



COMMITTEE BAY: small, bay-like body of 

 water, near the center of the Bay of Isles, South 

 Georgia, whose limits are formed by the semi- 

 circular arrangement of Crescent It., Invisible It., 

 Hogs Mouth Rocks and Albatross I.; in 54°01'S., 

 37''20'W. Its entrance, between Crescent It. and 

 Albatross I., faces west. The arrangement of the 

 islets was first mapped in 1912-13 by Robert Cush- 

 man Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig 

 Daisy. The bay was surveyed, by Discovery In- 

 vestigations personnel in 1929-30, and presumably 

 named by them for the Discovery Committee, spon- 

 sors of Discovery Investigations. 



Committee Range: see Executive Committee 

 Range. 



COMMONWEALTH BAY: open bay about 30 mi. 

 wide at its entrance between Point Alden and Cape 

 Gray, and about 12 mi. long, indenting the W. end 

 of George V Coast; in about 66°40'S., 142°40'E. 

 Disc, in January 1912 by the AAE under Mawson 

 who established the Main Base on Cape Denison 

 at the head of the bay, and named for the Com- 

 monwealth of Australia. 



COMMONWEALTH GLACIER: glacier which 

 flows in a SE. direction and enters the N. side of 

 Taylor Glacier Dry Valley immediately W. of Mt. 

 Coleman, in Victoria Land; in about 77°35'S., 

 163°15'E. Charted and named by the BrAE under 

 Scott, 1910-13. Named for the Commonwealth of 

 Australia, which made a financial grant to the exp. 

 and contributed two members to the expedition's 

 Western Geological Party which explored this area. 



COMMONWEALTH RANGE: range of rugged 

 mountains bordering the E. side of Beardmore Gl., 

 near the head of Ross Ice Shelf; in about 84°30'S., 

 173°00'E. Disc, in December 1908 by the BrAE 

 under Shackleton and named for the Common- 

 wealth of Australia, which so generously aided the 

 expedition. 



COMPASS ISLET: small rocky islet, about 50 ft. 

 in el., lying in Marguerite Bay about 7 mi. NW. of 

 Terra Firma Is.; in 68°38'S., 67°48'W. First seen 

 and photographed from the air on Feb. 1, 1937 by 

 the BGLE. First visited by the FIDS in 1948, and 

 surveyed by them in 1949. So named by FIDS 

 because of difficulties experienced here with com- 

 pass bearings, eventually proved to be due to sub- 

 stitution of iron for copper wire in an anorak hood. 



COMRIE GLACIER: glacier, about 6 mi. long, 

 flowing NW. into the SE. corner of Bigo Bay, on 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 65°48'S., 64°20'W. 

 This glacier was first sighted and roughly surveyed 

 in 1909 by the FrAE under Charcot. It was re- 

 surveyed in 1935-36 by the BGLE under Rymill, 

 and later named for Leslie J. Comrie, Founder and 

 first Dir. of the Scientific Computing Service Ltd., 

 London. As Supt. of the Nautical Almanac Office 

 in 1934, he greatly assisted the BGLE, 1934-37, by 

 providing advance copies of the Nautical Almanac 

 up to 1937. 



Concepcion, Pointe: see Conception Point. 



CONCEPTION POINT: northernmost point on 

 Coronation I., in the South Orkney Is.; in about 

 60°31'S., 45°44'W. Disc, Dec. 8, 1821, in the course 

 of the joint cruise by Capt. George Powell, British 

 sealer, and Capt. Nathaniel Palmer, American 



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