GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



tablished a depot there to support the party which 

 surveyed the Geologie Arch. area. 



DERBY ISLET: small rocky islet near the E. end 

 of Geologie Arch., lying close N. of Astrolabe Gla- 

 cier Tongue and about 0.5 mi. SE. of Pasteur It., in 

 the Dumoulin Its., off Adelie Coast; in 66°38'S., 

 140°05'E. Photographed from the air by USN Op. 

 Hjp., 1946-47. Charted by the FrAE under Lio- 

 tard, 1949-51, and so named because separate field 

 parties competed against each other for the honor 

 of being first to reach the islet. 



DE RONGfi ISLAND: high, rugged island about 

 5 mi. long in a NE.-SW. direction and about half 

 as broad; largest island of the group which forms 

 the W. side of Errera Chan.; off the W. coast of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 64°43'S., 62°41'W. Disc, by the 

 BelgAE, 1897-99, under De Gerlache, who named 

 it for Madame de Ronge, a contributor to the ex- 

 pedition. Not adopted: Cuverville Island (q.v.). 

 Rouge Island, Rouge Island. 



DESOLATION HARBOR: anchorage in the SE. 

 side of Desolation I., lying N. of Livingston I. in 

 the South Shetland Is.; in 62°28'S., 60°22'W. Used 

 as an anchorage by early sealers, this feature was 

 charted as Blythe Bay by Capt. George Powell on 

 a map published by Laurie in 1822. The anchor- 

 age takes its name from Desolation I., and was 

 charted by DI personnel on the Discovery II in 

 1935. Not adopted: Blythe Bay (q.v.) . 



DESOLATION ISLAND: V-shaped island lying 

 in the entrance to Blythe Bay, about 5 mi. W. of 

 Williams Pt., Livingston I., in the South Shetland 

 Is.; in 62°27'S., 60°23'W. Disc, in January 1820 by 

 a Br., exp. under Bransfield, and so named by him 

 because of the desolate appearance. 



DESPAIR ROCKS : group of rocks about 3 mi. S. 

 of Melsom Rocks and some 8 mi. WSW. of Penguin 

 Pt., the NW. tip of Coronation I., in the South 

 Orkney Is.; in 60°33'S., 46°12'W. Disc, and named 

 by Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer, an American sealer, 

 and Capt. George Powell, a British sealer, during 

 their joint cruise in December 1821. Not adopted: 

 Rocks of Despair. 



DETAILLE ISLET: islet which lies close off the 

 NW. side of Andresen I. and about 4 mi. off the 

 W. coast of Palmer Pen. in the N. part of Lallemand 

 Fjord; in about 66°55'S., 66°37'W. Disc, by the 

 FrAE, 1908-10, under Charcot, who named it for 

 Monsieur Detaille of Punta Arenas, shareholder in 

 the Magellan Whaling Co., who assisted Charcot 

 in obtaining supplies at the company's whaling 

 base at Deception Island. 



DETROIT: for names beginning thus see under 

 the specific part of the word. For example, for 

 Detroit de MacFerlane see MacFerlane, Detroit de. 

 (Detroit is a French word for "strait.") 



DETROIT PLATEAU: a major interior plateau 

 of Palmer Pen., averaging between 5,000 and 5,500 

 ft. in el., whose NW. limit is marked by the S. wall 

 of Russel Gl., in 63°43'S., 58°40'W., and extends 

 some 120 mi. in a general SW. direction to a S. 

 limit not precisely defined, but believed to be in 

 about 64°50'S., 62°30'W. The plateau was seen 

 from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins on a flight over 

 Palmer Pen., Dec. 20, 1928. Wilkins named it 

 Detroit Aviation Society Plateau after the society 

 which aided in the organizing of his exp., but the 

 US-ACAN recommends that the shortened form of 

 the original name be used. The N. and E. sides 

 of the plateau were charted by the FIDS in 1946-47. 

 Not adopted: Detroit Aviation Society Plateau. 



DEVIL ISLAND : island about 1 mi. long, with a 

 low summit on each end, lying in the center of a 

 small bay about 1 mi. SE. of Cape Well-met, north- 

 ern Vega Island, S. of the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 63°48'S., 57°17'W. Disc, and named by the 

 SwedAE, 1901-4, under Nordenskjold. Not 

 adopted: Djafvulson [Swedish] , Teufelsinsel [Ger- 

 man]. 



Devils Ballroom: see Devils Glacier. 



DEVILS CORRIE: large and very spectacular 

 cirque, or corrie, midway between Olivine Pt. and 

 Amphibolite Pt. on the S. coast of Coronation I., 

 South Orkney Is.; in 60°40'S., 45°25'W. Named 

 by the FIDS following their survey of 1948-49. 



DEVILS GLACIER: a heavily crevassed area in 

 the S. end of the Mohn Basin, lying to the W. and 

 SW. of the mountain group consisting of Mounts 

 Wisting, Hassel, Bjaaland and Prestrud, in the 

 south polar plateau; its northern and lower end 

 lies in about 86°30'S., 167°20'W. Disc, in Novem- 

 ber 1911 on the journey to the South Pole by the 

 Nor. exp. under Amundsen, and named by him to 

 describe the extremely rough sledging in that area. 

 Not adopted: Devils Ballroom. 



DEVILS PEAK: conspicuous rocky peak, about 

 2,400 ft. in el., between Sunshine Gl. and Devils 

 Corrie on the S. side of Coronation I., South Ork- 

 ney Is.; in 60°40'S., 45°27'W. Surveyed in 1948-49 

 by the FIDS, who so named it because of its 

 proximity to Devils Corrie. 



DEVILS PUNCHBOWL: bowl-shaped cove (an 

 empty cirque, the floor of which is below sea level) 

 in the SW. corner of Granite Hbr., between Devils 

 Ridge and the S. side of The Flatiron, in Victoria 



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