GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



sealer. Named by Powell. Not adopted: Pointe 

 Concepcion [French]. 



CONE NUNATAK: nunatak, about 1,100 ft. in 

 el., which appears conical on its N. side but has 

 brown rock cliffs on its S. face, about 3 mi. SSE. of 

 Buttress Hill and 4 mi. NE. of the SW. tip of 

 Tabarin Pen., at the NE. extremity of Palmer Pen.; 

 . in 63°36'S., 57°01'W. This area was first explored 

 by a party under J. Gunnar Andersson of the 

 SwedAE, 1901-4. Cone Nunatak was named by 

 the FIDS following their survey of the area in 1946. 



CONE ROCK: small rock lying about midway 

 between Pyramid I. and Meade Is., in the South 

 Shetland Is.; in 62°25'S., 60°09'W. The name ap- 

 pears to have been applied by DI personnel on the 

 Discovery II, who charted the rock in 1935. Not 

 adopted : Conical Rock. 



CONFUSION POINT: point which forms the S. 

 tip of the islet at the W. side of the entrance to 

 Clowes Bay, along the S. side of Signy I., in the 

 South Orkney Is.; in 60°45'S., 45°38'W. Charted 

 and named in 1933 by DI personnel on the 

 Discovery II. 



CONGER GLACIER: channel glacier about 3 mi. 

 wide and 7 mi. long flowing NNW. from the conti- 

 nental ice to Knox Coast, about 5 mi. E. of Glenzer 

 Gl.; in about 66°05'S., 103°42'E. Delineated from 

 aerial photographs taken by USN Op. Hjp., 1946- 

 47, and named by the US-AC AN for Richard R. 

 Conger, chief photographer's mate with USN Op. 

 Wml., 1947-48, who assisted in establishing astro- 

 nomical control stations along the coast from Wil- 

 helm II Coast to Budd Coast. 



Conical Hill: see Cherry-Garrard, Mount. 



Conical Rock: see Cone Rock. 



CONICAL ROCK: rock lying at the E. side of 

 Hell Gates, about midway between Snow and 

 Livingston Islands, in the South Shetland Is.; in 

 62°40'S., 61°10'W. Named by DI personnel on the 

 Discovery II, who charted the area in 1930-31. 

 Not adopted: Rocher Conique [French]. 



Conique, Rocher: see Conical Rock. 



CONRADI PEAK : isolated, almbst snow-covered 

 peak, about 3,300 ft. in el., lying ^bout 28 mi. SSE. 

 of Cape Batterbee, in Enderby Land; in about 

 66°14'S., 54°22'E. Disc, and named by the BAN- 

 ZARE under Mawson, in January 1930. 



CONRAD MOUNTAINS: mountain range about 

 20 mi. long, in a N.-S. direction, and about 10,800 

 ft. in el., lying between Mt. Dallmann and the 

 Kurze Mtns. in New Schwabenland; in about 



72°00'S., 9°30'E. Disc, by the GerAE under 

 Ritscher, 1938-39, and named for the dir. of 

 meteorological division of the former Marine- 

 leitung (German Admiralty). 



CONSORT ISLETS : group of two islets, the most 

 northeasterly of the De Dion Its., lying about 6 mi. 

 S. of Adelaide I. in Marguerite Bay; in 67°52'S., 

 68°42'W. First sighted in 1909 by the FrAE under 

 Charcot. Surveyed in 1948 by the FIDS. The 

 name, given by FIDS, derives from association with 

 Emperor Islet. 



Constance, Cape: see Jones, Cape. 



CONSTANCE, CAPE: cape which marks the N. 

 tip of the peninsula between Antarctic and Pos- 

 session Bays, on the N. coast of South Georgia; in 

 54°03'S., 36°59'W. Cape Constance is an estab- 

 lished name dating back to about 1912. 



CONTACT PEAK: prominent rock peak, about 

 3,300 ft. in el., which is the southernmost peak on 

 Pourquoi Pas I., off the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 67°47'S., 67°28'W. First sighted and roughly 

 charted in 1909 by the FrAE under Charcot. It 

 was surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE and in 1948 by 

 the FIDS. So named by the FIDS because the 

 peak marks the granite-volcanic contact in the 

 cliffs which is visible at a considerable distance. 



CONTRAST ROCKS: small group of rocks about 

 0.5 mi. E. of Antarctic Pt. along the N. coast of 

 South Georgia; in 54°04'S., 36°57'W. Charted and 

 named in the period 1926-30 by DI personnel. 



CONWAY, CAPE: cape which forms the S. tip 

 of Snow I., in the South Shetlands Is.; in 62°49'S., 

 61°25'W. Named by a Br. exp. under Foster, 

 1828-31, for the Conway, a vessel on which Foster 

 had previously served. 



CONWAY RANGE : mountain range between Mu- 

 lock Inlet and the Cape Murray depression on the 

 W. side of Ross Ice Shelf; in about 79°18'S., 

 159°20'E. This area was disc, by the BrNAE under 

 Scott, 1901-4. The name was used in the report 

 of the BrAE under Shackleton, 1907-9. 



Cook Bay: see Joseph Cook Bay. 



COOK BAY: irregular bay, about 1.3 mi. wide at 

 its entrance between Cape Crewe and Black Head, 

 narrowing into two western arms. Lighthouse Bay 

 and Prince Olav Hbr., along the N. coast of South 

 Georgia; in 54°03'S., 37°08'W. Charted by DI 

 personnel during the period 1926-30, and named by 

 them for Capt. James Cook, who explored South 

 Georgia and landed in this general vicinity in 1775. 



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