GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Disc, by the USAS in flights from the Bear, Febru- 

 ary 1940, and named after E. J. Demas, member of 

 the Byrd Antarctic Expeditions, 1928-30, and 

 1933-35. 



Demas Mountains: see Walker Mountains. 



DEMAS ROCKS: group of rocks lying about 3 

 mi. off the NW. coast of Louis Philippe Pen., about 

 2 mi. NE. of Cape Ducorps; in 63°21'S., 58°02"W. 

 Disc, by a Fr. exp., 1837-40, under D'Urville, and 

 named by him for Lt. Frangois Barlatier Demas of 

 the exp. ship Astrolabe. The rocks were charted 

 by the FIDS in 1946. Not adopted: Demas Rock. 



DEMAY POINT: point which forms the W. side 

 of the entrance to Admiralty Bay, King George I., 

 in the South Shetland Is.; in 62°12'S., 58°25'W. 

 This point was known to sealers as early as 1822. 

 It was named almost 100 years later by the FrAE, 

 1908-10, under Charcot. 



DEMIDOV, CAPE: cape which forms the S. side 

 of the entrance to Wilson Hbr., on the S. coast and 

 near the W. end of South Georgia; in 54°08'S., 

 37°47'W. Disc, by a Russ. exp. under Bellings- 

 hausen in 1819, and named for Lt. Dimitri Demi- 

 dov of the Vostok. Not adopted: Cape Demidow. 



Demidow, Cape: see Demidov, Cape. 



DEMOREST GLACIER: glacier which flows SE. 

 into Whirlwind Inlet, between Flint and Matthes 

 Glaciers, on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 67°23'S., 

 65°32'W. Disc, by Sir Hubert Wilkins on a flight 

 of Dec. 20, 1928, and photographed from the air 

 by the USAS in 1940. Charted by the FIDS in 1947 

 and named for Max H. Demorest, American gla- 

 ciologist. 



DENAIS COVE: cove at the N. side of the en- 

 trance to Ezcurra Inlet, Admiralty Bay, on King 

 George I., in the South Shetland Is.; in 62°07'S., 

 58°31'W. Charted by the FrAE, 1908-10, under 

 Charcot, and named by him for a member of the 

 expedition. 



DENIAU ISLET: islet which lies off the W. coast 

 of Palmer Pen. midway between Darboux I. and 

 Lippmann It., and about 5 mi. W. of the entrance 

 to Beascochea Bay; in 65°27'S., 64°21'W. Disc, by 

 the FrAE, 1908-10, under Charcot, and named by 

 him for Monsieur Deniau, a donor of numerous 

 gifts to the expedition. Not adopted: Deniau 

 Island. 



DENISON, CAPE: rocky cape in the center of the 

 S. shore of Commonwealth Bay, on George V 

 Coast; in about 67°00'S., 142°40'E. Disc, in 1912 

 by the AAE under Mawson who named it for Sir 



Hugh Denison of Sydney, a patron of the expedi- 

 tion. This cape was the site of the Main Base, 

 from which the AAE mapped George V Coast. 



DENMAN GLACIER: glacier about 7 to 10 mi. 

 wide, descending N. some 70 mi. from an el. of 

 4,500 ft. in a series of vast ice cascades and crevasses 

 and debouching into Shackleton Ice Shelf E. of 

 David I., on Queen Mary Coast; in about 66°50'S., 

 99°15'E. Disc, in November 1912 by the AAE un- 

 der Mawson, who named it for Lord Thomas Den- 

 man, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of 

 Australia in 1911 and a patron of the expedition. 



DENNISTOUN GLACIER: glacier descending 

 from the ice-covered slopes of Mounts Troubridge 

 and Parker to the coast of northern Victoria Land; 

 in about 71°10'S., 168°25'E. Charted by the BrAE, 

 1910-13, under Scott, and named for James R. 

 Dennistoun who was in charge of the mules aboard 

 the exp. ship Terra Nova on the way to the Ant- 

 arctic. 



DENUCE, MOUNT: rounded mountain, about 

 5,000 ft. in el., lying between Mounts Hulth and 

 Haskell on the SW. side of Cabinet Inlet, on the 

 E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 66°43'S., 64°12'W. 

 Charted by the FIDS and photographed from the 

 air by the RARE in December 1947. Named by 

 the FIDS for Jean Denuce, Belgian polar bibliog- 

 rapher. 



Depot Bay: see Farr Bay. 



DEPOT GLACIER: well-defined valley glacier, 

 flanked by lateral moraines, which terminates in a 

 high vertical ice cliff where it discharges into the 

 head of Hope Bay, at the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 63°25'S., 57°03'W. Disc, by the SwedAE, 

 1901-4, under Nordenskjold, and so named by him 

 because, as seen from Antarctic Sound, it appeared 

 to be a possible site for a depot. 



DEPOT ISLAND: small, glaciated, granite island 

 about 2 mi. NW. of Cape Ross, off the coast of Vic- 

 toria Land; in about 76°43'S., 163°00'E. First 

 charted by the BrAE, 1907-9, under Shackleton and 

 so named by the expedition's Magnetic Pole Party 

 because they depoted specimens of rocks on this 

 island. 



D]EP6T ISLET: small rocky islet, about 50 ft. in 

 el. and less than 0.1 mi. long, lying about 0.6 mi. 

 NW. of Pasteur It. near the center of the Du- 

 moulin Its., in the Geologic Arch., off Adelie Coast; 

 in 66°37'S., 140°05'E. Photographed from the air 

 by USN Op. Hjp., 1946-47. Charted by the FrAE 

 under Liotard, 1950-51, and so named because per- 

 sonnel on the exp. ship Commandant Charcot es- 



424589 O -57 -8 



105 



