GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



RN, in February 1911. Named for Francis E. C. 

 Davies, leading shipwright aboard the Terra Nova. 

 Not adopted : Davis Bay. 



DAVIES GILBERT STRAIT: strait which lies 

 between Tower I. on the N. and Trinity I. and Cape 

 Kater on the S., off the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 

 about 63°37'S., 60°00'W. Named by a Br. exp., 

 1828-31, under Foster, for Davies Gilbert, Pres. of 

 the Royal Soc, 1827-30, and of the committee 

 which formulated the objectives of the expedition. 

 The strait was charted by the SwedAE, 1901-4, 

 under Nordenskjold. Not adopted: Davis Gilbert 

 Strait. 



DAVIS, CAPE : rounded cape lying E. of Magnet 

 Bay near the E. end of the coast of Enderby Land, 

 just N. of Edward VIII Bay; in about 66°28'S., 

 56°51'E. Disc, by the BANZARE under Mawson on 

 about Jan. 12, 1930, and named for Capt. John King 

 Davis, Dir. of Navigation under the Commonwealth 

 Govt, and ship's captain and second-in-command 

 of the BANZARE. 



DAVIS, POINT: point about 1.2 mi. WNW. of 

 Point Rae on the N. side of Scotia Bay, Laurie I., in 

 the South Orkney Is.; in 60°46'S., 44°39'W. 

 Charted by the ScotNAE, 1902-4, under Bruce, 

 who named it for W. G. Davis, Dir. of the Argentine 

 Meteorological Service. 



Davis Bay: see Davies Bay. 



DAVIS BAY: bay about 10 mi. long and about 15 

 mi. wide at its entrance, lying between Cape Cesney 

 and the ice-covered coast close NE. of Lewis It. 

 and indenting the E. end of Clarie Coast; in about 

 65°55'S., 134°10'E. Disc, by the AAE under Maw- 

 son from Aurora in January 1912, and named by 

 him for Capt. John King Davis, master of the 

 Aurora and second-in-command of the expedition. 



Davis Gilbert Strait: see Davies Gilbert Strait. 



Davis Glacier: see Arthur Davis Glacier. 



DAVIS GLACIER: heavily crevassed glacier, 

 about 6 mi. wide and of undetermined length, de- 

 scending from the interior upland of Victoria Land 

 in a NE. and E. direction to Ross Sea; in about 

 75°45'S., 162°45'E. First charted by the BrAE, 

 1907-9 under Shackleton, who named it for Capt. 

 John King Davis, first officer and later captain of 

 the exp. ship Nimrod. 



DAVIS ISLETS: small group of rocky islets and 

 rocks, marked by a prominent islet near the sea- 

 ward end of the group, which lies close inside the 

 W. side of the entrance to Vincennes Bay, about 6 

 mi. ESE. of Cape Nutt, off Budd Coast; in about 



66°45'S., 108°35'E. Delineated from aerial photo- 

 graphs taken by USN Op. Hjp., 1946-47, and named 

 by the US-ACAN for Malcolm Davis, bird curator 

 with the Washington (D.C.) Zoo of the Smithso- 

 nian Institution, who served as biologist aboard the 

 USAS ship North Star, 1940-41, and as ornitholo- 

 gist with the USN Op. Wml. parties which visited 

 the High jump Arch, and Windmill Is. in January 

 1948. 



DAVIS PENINSULA: elongated ice-covered pen- 

 insula, about 3 mi. wide, between Reid Gl. and Rob- 

 inson Bay, on Queen Mary Coast; in about 66°37'S., 

 98°48'E. Disc, in November 1912 by the AAE under 

 Mawson, who named it for Capt. John King Davis. 



DAVIS SEA : an area of the sea between Shackle- 

 ton Ice Shelf and the West Ice Shelf, off Queen 

 Mary Coast and Wilhelm II Coast; in about 66°S., 

 92°E. Disc, in 1912 by the AAE under Mawson, 

 who named it for Capt. John King Davis. 



Dausay Island; Daussy Island: see Hope Island. 



Dawson and Lambton, Mount: see Dawson- 

 Lambton, Mount. 



DAWSON-LAMBTON, MOUNT: mountain about 

 8,700 ft. in el., which lies about 6 mi. S. of Mt. 

 Speyer in the Worcester Range, NW. of Moore Em- 

 bayment on the W. side of Ross Ice Shelf; in about 

 78°52'S., 160°22'E. Disc, by the BrNAE, 1901-4 

 under Scott, and named for the Misses Dawson- 

 Lambton, contributors to the expedition. Not 

 adopted: Mount Dawson Lambton, Mount Dawson 

 and Lambton. 



DAWSON-LAMBTON GLACIER: heavily-broken 

 glacier with a seaward face about 200 ft. in el. and 

 40 mi. wide, flowing NW. from the high interior ice- 

 covered hills and reaching the sea on the Caird 

 Coast; in about 76°15'S., 27°30'W. Disc, in Jan- 

 uary 1915 by a Br. exp. under Shackleton. Named 

 for Miss Elizabeth Dawson-Lambton, benefactress 

 of the Shackleton expeditions. Not adopted: Daw- 

 son Lambton Glacier. 



DAY, CAPE: cape forming the S. portal of Maw- 

 son Gl. where it becomes the Nordenskjold Ice 

 Tongue, on the coast of Victoria Land; in about 

 76°16'S., 162°37'E. First charted by the BrAE, 

 1907-9, under Shackleton, who named this cape 

 for Bernard C. Day, electrician and motor expert 

 with the expedition. 



DAY ISLAND: island, about 6.5 mi. long and 2.5 

 mi. wide, lying immediately S. of The Gullet and 

 2 mi. N. of Wyatt I. in the N. part of Laubeuf Fjord, 

 off the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 67°15'S., 

 67°42'W. First surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE 



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