GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



COREY, MOUNT: mountain about 2,000 ft. in 

 el., which lies about 8 mi. S. of Fosdick Mtns., in 

 the Edsel Ford Ranges in Marie Byrd Land; in 

 about 76°38'S., 145°00'W. Disc, by the Marie 

 Byrd Land Sledging Party of the ByrdAE in No- 

 vember 1934, and named for Stevenson Corey, exp. 

 supply officer and member of the sledge party. 



CORINTHIAN BAY: bay, which is about 3 mi. 

 wide and recedes about 1.5 mi., entered between 

 Rogers Head and Saddle Pt. on the N. coast of 

 Heard I.; in 53°01'S., 73°27'E. It was probably 

 named by Capt. Erasmus Darwin Rogers, American 

 whaler and sealer, after his vessel Corinthian in 

 which he made the first landing on Heard I. in 

 March 1855. The name appears on a chart by the 

 Br. exp. under Nares, which visited the island in 

 the Challenger in 1874 and utilized the names then 

 in use by the sealers. 



CORNER CLIFFS: rocky mass surmounted by 

 two flat-topped summits about 1.5 mi. apart, stand- 

 ing immediately S. of Saturn Gl. on the SE. coast 

 of Alexander I Island; in 72°04'S., 68°25'W. The 

 rocks of these cliffs were apparently hidden from 

 the line of sight by intervening ice slopes to the 

 W., but the two rock ridges forming the NW. shoul- 

 der of this feature were first seen and photographed 

 from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on Nov. 23, 1935, 

 and were mapped from these photographs by 

 W. L. G. Joerg. The cliffs were first surveyed in 

 1949 by the FIDS, who gave this name to mark the 

 point where the exposed rock of eastern Alexander 

 I Island turns from a N.-S. direction toward the 

 southwest. 



CORNER GLACIER: steep, broken glacier about 

 1 mi. wide, descending from the W. slopes of Mt. 

 Dickason and merging with the confluent ice on 

 the coast of Victoria Land; in about 74°36'S., 

 163°30'E. Charted by the Northern Party of the 

 BrAE under Scott, 1910-13, and so named by them 

 because of its location. 



CORNER ISLANDS: two islets forming a crude 

 right angle, lying 0.1 mi. NE. of Galindez I. in the 

 Argentine Is., off the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 

 65°15'S., 64°15'W. Charted and named in 1935 by 

 the BGLE under Rymill. 



CORNER PEAK: pyramidal peak, about 3,500 ft. 

 in el., with considerable rock exposed on its N. face, 

 lying 2.5 mi. SW. of the S. end of Marescot Ridge 

 and some 8 mi. ESE. of Cape Roquemaurel, mark- 

 ing the corner of a broad glacier valley which rises 

 immediately to the SE. and fans out northwestward 

 to form a piedmont ice sheet on the NW. side of 

 Louis Philippe Pen.; in 63°35'S., 5^°39'W. Named 

 by the FIDS following a survey of the area in 1946. 



CORNER ROCK: rock lying in the SE. entrance 

 to Meek Chan, in the Argentine Is., off the W. coast 

 of Palmer Pen.; in 65°15'S., 64°15'W. Charted and 

 named in 1935 by the BGLE under Rymill. 



CORNICE CHANNEL: narrow channel separat- 

 ing Galindez I. from the E. part of Skua I. in the 

 Argentine Is., off the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 

 65°15'S., 64°16'W. First surveyed in 1935-36 by 

 the BGLE under Rymill. Named in 1954 by the 

 Br-APC. A prominent cornice overhangs the ice 

 cliff on the Galindez I. side of the channel. 



CORNISH, CAPE: cape which forms the N. tip 

 of Buckle I. in the Balleny Is.; in about 66°42'S., 

 163°09'E. Named by DI personnel on the Dis- 

 covery II in 1938 for A. W. Cornish, meteorologist 

 with the Australian Central Bureau who was an 

 observer aboard the Discovery II during 1937-38. 



CORNWALL PEAKS: two conspicuous rock 

 peaks, the highest about 3,400 ft. in el., standing at 

 the W. side of Konig Gl., about 3 mi. SW. of For- 

 tuna Bay, South Georgia; in 54°11'S., 36°52'W. 

 The name Cornwall Peak was probably given by 

 DI personnel during their survey of Fortuna Bay 

 in 1929. During the SGS, 1951-52, this peak could 

 not be re-identified. At the same time it was re- 

 ported that the features now described, although 

 lying farther south, together form a conspicuous 

 landmark requiring a name. The name Cornwall 

 Peaks was recommended for these peaks by the 

 Br-APC in 1954; the name Cornwall Peak has been 

 eliminated. Not adopted : Cornwall Peak. 



CORNWALLIS ISLAND : island about 3 mi. long 

 and 1.5 mi. wide, which Ues about midway between 

 Elephant and Clarence Islands in the South Shet- 

 land Is.; in 61°03'S., 54°31'W. The name dates 

 back to about 1821 and is now established interna- 

 tional usage. Not adopted: Cornwallis's Island, 

 Michailoff's Island. 



CORNWALL POINT: conspicuous point about 1.5 

 mi. NE. of Cape Morris, on the N. side of Robert I., 

 in the South Shetland Is.; in 62°21'S., 59°45'W. 

 The name appears to have been applied by DI per- 

 sonnel on the Discovery II who charted the point 

 in 1935. 



CORONATION ISLAND: largest of the South 

 Orkney Is., about 30 mi. long and 3 to 8 mi. wide; 

 in about 60°37'S., 45°30'W. Disc, in December 1821 

 in the course of the joint cruise by Capt. George 

 Powell, British sealer, and Capt. Nathaniel Palmer, 

 American sealer. Named by Powell in honor of the 

 coronation of George IV, who had become King of 

 Great Britain in 1820. Not adopted: Coronation 

 Isle, Mainland, Pomona Island. 



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