GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



DOUBTFUL BAY: small, but deeply indented 

 bay, which lies 1.5 mi. ENE. of Smaaland Cove and 

 immediately W. of Rumbolds Ft. on the SE. coast of 

 South Georgia; in 54°52'S., 36°02'W. This bay was 

 charted by the GerAE under Filchner, 1911-12, 

 who named it for Walter Slossarczyk, third officer 

 of the exp. ship Deutschland. Later the names 

 Doubtful Bay and Smaaland Bay (now Smaaland 

 Cove, q.v.) were erroneously transposed on charts 

 of this area. The SGS, 1951-52, reported that the 

 name Slossarczyk Bay is not known locally and that 

 this feature is best known as Doubtful Bay. Despite 

 the undoubted priority of Filchner's naming, the 

 name Doubtful Bay is approved in order to conform 

 with local usage. Not adopted: Green Bay, Slo- 

 sarczyk Bay, Slossarczyk Bay, Smaaland Bay, 

 Smedland Bay. 



Doubtful Bay: see Smaaland Cove. 



DOUGLAS, CAFE: rocky headland between 

 Barne Inlet and Beaumont Bay along the W. edge 

 of the Ross Ice Shelf; in about 81°00'S., 160°30'E. 

 Disc, by the BrNAE under Scott in December 1902, 

 and named for Adm. Sir Archibald Douglas, Lord 

 of the Admiralty, who led the Admiralty to assign 

 naval seamen to the expedition. 



DOUGLAS BAY: an indentation in the front of 

 Amery Ice Shelf westward of Cape Thomas, in the 

 SW. part of MacKenzie Bay along Lars Christensen 

 Coast; in about 68°45'S., 70°30'E. Sketched from 

 the air, Feb. 10, 1931, by the BANZARE under 

 Mawson. Probably named for Air Pilot E. Douglas, 

 one of the aviators on the expedition. 



Douglas Inlet: see New Bedford Inlet. 



DOUGLAS ISLANDS: group of islands about 14 

 mi. NW. of Cape Daly, off Mac-Robertson Coast; in 

 about 67°20'S., 63°32'E. Disc, by the BANZARE, 

 1929-31, under Mawson. Lt. E. Douglas was one 

 of the air pilots who first sighted these islands, 

 when he explored the coast from an airplane in 

 December 1929. 



DOUGLAS PEAK: peak about 5,000 ft. in el., 

 lying about 12 mi. SSW. of Mt. Codrington, in 

 Enderby Land; in about 66°32'S., 52°20'E. Disc, 

 in January 1930 by the BANZARE under Mawson, 

 and probably named for Air Pilot E. Douglas. 



DOUGLAS RANGE: sharp-crested range form- 

 ing the steep E. escarpment of Alexander I Island, 

 overlooking George VI Sound from about 69°20'S., 

 69°50'W. to about 70°35'S. The narrow, linear 

 divide of the range rises majestically to about 

 8,000 ft. in el., surmounted by peaks which rise to 

 9,800 ft. The S. end of this range was photo- 

 graphed by Lincoln Ellsworth, Nov. 23, 1935, on his 



trans-Antarctic flight, and its N. end was seen 

 dimly by Charcot on the Pourquoi-Pas? , Jan. 21 to 

 23, 1909. Positive discovery, however, was made in 

 1936 by members of the BGLE, under Rymill, who 

 mapped the range as a result of aerial flights and 

 of a sledge journey to beyond 72°S. in George VI 

 Sound. Named for V. Adm. Sir Percy Douglas, 

 chairman of the BGLE Advisory Committee, mem- 

 ber of the Discovery Committee from 1928 until his 

 death in 1939, formerly Hydrographer of the British 

 Navy, and Vice Pres. of the Royal Geographical Soc. 

 As Hydrographer, Sir Percy produced the first issue 

 of the Antarctic Pilot in 1930. 



DOUGLASS, MOUNT: ice-covered mountain with 

 several peaks rising to an estimated 1,500 ft. in el., 

 on the SW. side of the lower part of Boyd Gl., in the 

 Edsel Ford Ranges in Marie Byrd Land; in about 

 77°19'S., 145°17'W. Disc, in 1934 on aerial flights 

 of the ByrdAE. Named for Malcolm C. Douglass, 

 dog driver at West Base of the USAS, 1939-41. 



DOUGLAS STRAIT: strait about 2 mi. wide be- 

 tween Thule and Cook Islands, in the South Sand- 

 wich Is.; in 59°27'S., 27°14'W. The existence of 

 this strait was first noted by a Russ. exp. under 

 Bellingshausen in 1820. It was charted by DI per- 

 sonnel on the Discovery II and named for V. Adm. 

 Sir Percy Douglas. 



DOUMER ISLAND: island, about 4.5 mi. long 

 and 2 mi. wide, surmounted by a snow-covered 

 pyramidal peak about 1,700 ft. in el., lying between 

 the S. portions of Anvers I. and Wiencke I., in the 

 Palmer Arch.; in 64°51'S., 63°35'W. First seen by 

 the BelgAE, 1897-99, under De Gerlache. It was 

 resighted and charted by the FrAE, 1903-5, under 

 Charcot, who named it for Paul Doumer, Pres. of 

 the Chamber of Deputies and later Pres. of France. 



DOVE CHANNEL : narrow channel bisecting the 

 Oliphant Its., trending in an E.-W. direction be- 

 tween two large islets, on the N., and the main 

 group of smaller islets and rocks, on the S., lying 

 about 0.4 mi. S. of Gourlay Pt., the SE. tip of 

 Signy I., in the South Orkney Is.; in 60°45'S., 

 45°36'W. The name Dove Strait dates back to 

 about 1930, but the generic term channel is ap- 

 proved because of the small size of this feature. 

 Not adopted: Dove Strait. 



DOVERS, CAPE: prominent cape about 5 mi. 

 SSW. of Henderson I., on Queen Mary Coast; in 

 about 66°32'S., 97°01'E. Disc, by the AAE, 1911-14, 

 under Mawson, and named for G. Dovers, cartog- 

 rapher at the expedition's Western Base. 



Dove Strait: see Dove Channel. 



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