GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



DAMOY POINT: point which lies 0.5 mi. WNW. 

 of Flag Pt., the N. entrance point to the harbor of 

 Port Lockroy, on the W. side of Wiencke I. in the 

 Palmer Arch.; in 64°49'S., 63°32'W. Disc, and 

 named by the FrAE, 1903-5, under Charcot. 



Dana Coman, Mount: see Coman, Mount. 



BANCO COAST: that portion of the NW. coast 

 of Palmer Pen. between Cape Kater, in 63°45'S., 

 59°40'W., and Cape Renard, in 65°01'S., 63°43'W. 

 This coast was explored in January and February 

 of 1898 by the BelgAE under De Gerlache, who 

 named it for Lt. Emile Danco, who died on the 

 expedition. Not adopted: Danco Land. 



Danco Land: see Danco Coast. 



Danebrog, lies: see Dannebrog Islands. 



DANFORTH, MOUNT: Pyramid-shaped moun- 

 tain rising to about 5,500 ft. in el., standing just 

 W. of the W. end of Watson Escarpment, on the 

 S. side of Albanus Gl., in the Queen Maud Range; 

 in about 85°58'S., 148°20'W. Disc, in December 

 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin 

 Blackburn, and named by Byrd for William H. 

 Danforth of the Purina Mills, St. Louis, contributor 

 to the expedition. 



DANGER, CAPE : cape which forms the NW. tip 

 of Desolation I., in the South Shetland Is., in 

 62°26'S., 60°25'W. Charted in 1935 by DI per- 

 sonnel on the Discovery II. So named because a 

 group of sunken rocks extends about 0.4 mi. NW. 

 from the cape. 



DANGER ISLETS: group of islets lying 13 mi. 

 ESE. of Joinville I., in 63°25'S., 54°37'W. Disc. 

 Dec. 28, 1842 by a Br. exp. under Ross, who so 

 named them because, appearing amongst heavy 

 fragments of ice, they were almost completely con- 

 cealed until the ship was nearly upon them. 



DANIEL, MOUNT: peak in the Prince Olav 

 Mtns., which rises to about 3,000 ft. in el., stand- 

 ing W. of Liv Gl. and NE. of Mt. Wade, in the 

 Queen Maud Range; in about 84°52'S., 171°10'W. 

 Disc, by R. Adm. Byrd on ByrdAE flights to the 

 Queen Maud Range in November 1929, and named 

 by him for Robert W. Daniel of Lower Brandon, Va., 

 contributor to the expedition. 



DANIELL, CAPE: cape which marks the S. side 

 of the entrance to Tucker Inlet, on the coast of 

 Victoria Land; in about 72°50'S., 170°00'E. Disc, 

 in January 1841 by a Br. exp. under Ross who 

 named it for Professor Daniell, chemist of King's 

 College, Cambridge Univ., and Foreign Sec. of the 

 Royal Society. 



Daniel Rex, Mount: see Rex, Mount. 



DANNEBROG ISLANDS: group of islands, the 

 largest of which are Booth, Hovgaard and Peter- 

 mann Islands, which lie separated from the W. 

 coast of Palmer Pen. by Lemaire Chan.; in 65°06'S., 

 64°15'W. Disc, by a Ger. exp. under Dallmann, 

 1873-74, who named them Kaiser Wilhelm Inseln. 

 They were later charted by the BelgAE under De 

 Gerlache, 1897-99, who named them Dannebrog 

 Islands in appreciation of support he received from 

 Denmark. Since the Dallmann names have been 

 retained for some of the individual islands, the 

 US-ACAN recommends the use of the name Danne- 

 brog Islands for the group in keeping with the 

 naming by De Gerlache and because of the greater 

 acceptance and use of this name on maps and 

 reports. Not adopted: lies Danebrog [French], 

 Kaiser Wilhelm Inseln [German] , Kaiser Wilhelm 

 II Islands. 



Darbel Bay: see Marin Darbel Bay. 



DARBOUX ISLAND: island, about 1 mi. in 

 diameter and about 900 ft. in el., lying about 3 mi. 

 W. of Cape Trois Perez, off the W. coast of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 65°25'S., 64°14'W. Disc, by the FrAE, 

 1903-5, under Charcot, and named by him for Jean 

 Gaston Darboux, noted French mathematician. 



DARLING, MOUNT: highest peak of the Alle- 

 gheny Mtns., which lie in the E. part of the Edsel 

 Ford Ranges in Marie Byrd Land; in about 77°14'S., 

 143°13'W. Disc, on aerial flights from the West 

 Base of the US AS in 1940, and named for Chester 

 A. Darling of Allegheny College, Meadville, Penn- 

 sylvania. 



DARLINGTON, CAPE: ice-covered headland, 

 about 1,000 ft. in el., forming the S. side of the 

 entrance to Hilton Inlet, on the E. coast of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 72°00'S., 60°43'W. Disc, in 1940 by the 

 USAS, but at that time it was thought to be an 

 island. Its true nature was determined in an 

 aerial flight by the RARE, under Ronne, in Novem- 

 ber 1947. Named by the USAS for Harry Darling- 

 ton III, member of the East Base sledging party 

 that explored this coast as far S. as Hilton Inlet. 

 Not adopted: Darlington Island. 



Darlington Island: see Darlington, Cape. 



DARNLEY, CAPE: cape which lies 6 mi. SE. of 

 Newark Bay, on the south-central coast of South 

 Georgia; in 54°26'S., 36°50'W. 'The name dates 

 back to about 1920 and was given for E. R. Darnley 

 of the Colonial Office, Chairman of the Discovery 

 Committee, 1924-33. 



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