GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



named features within the group Duroch Rock and 

 Coupvent Rock. The FIDS, who charted the islets 

 in 1946, found that the group could not satisfac- 

 torily be divided into two parts and that individual 

 islet names were unnecessary. The present de- 

 scription is in accord with the FIDS that the name 

 Duroch include the entire group of islets. Named 

 for Ensign Joseph Duroch of D'Urville's ship, the 

 Astrolabe. Not adopted: Duroch Rock, Durock 

 Rock. 



Duroch Rock; Durock Rock: see Duroch Islets. 



D'URSEL, CAPE: cape which marks the S. side 

 of the entrance to Buls Bay, which indents the 

 center of the E. coast of Brabant I., in the Palmer 

 Arch.; in 64°21'S., 62°08'W. Disc, by the BelgAE, 

 1897-99, under De Gerlache, and named by him 

 for Count Hippolyte d'Ursel, a supporter of the 

 expedition. Not adopted: Cape d'Ursel. 



D'URVILLE, MOUNT: mountain about 3,500 ft. 

 in el., which lies about 7 mi. S. of Cape Ducorps and 

 some 20 mi. ENE. of Cape Roquemaurel, on the 

 NW. coast of Louis Philippe Pen.; in 63°31'S., 

 58°11'W. Disc, by the Fr. exp., 1837-40, and named 

 for the exp. leader, Capt. (later Adm.) Dumont 

 D'Urville. Not adopted: Mount d'Urville. 



D'URVILLE ISLAND: northernmost island of 

 the Joinville I. group, about 13 mi. long, lying 

 immediately N. of Joinville I., from which it is 

 separated by Larsen Chan.; in 63°05'S., 56°20'W. 

 Charted in 1902 by the SwedAE under Norden- 

 skjold, who named it after Capt. Dumont D'Urville, 

 French explorer who disc, land in the Joinville I. 

 group. 



D'URVILLE MONUMENT: conspicuous conical 

 summit about 1,900 ft. in el., at the SW. end of 

 Joinville I., off the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; in 

 63°25'S., 56°18'W. Disc, by a Br. exp., 1839-43, 

 under Ross, and named by him for Capt. Dumont 

 D'Urville. Not adopted: d'Urville Monument, 

 D'Urville's Monument. 



D'URVILLE WALL: great glacier-cut wall of 

 granite several thousand feet high, which forms 

 the N. wall of David Gl., in Victoria Land; in about 

 75°18'S., 162°00'E. Disc, by the BrAE, 1907-9, 

 under Shackleton, who named it for Capt. Dumont 

 D'Urville. 



DUSE, MOUNT: conspicuous mountain, about 

 1,700 ft. in el., surmounting King Edward Pt. on 

 the W. side of Cumberland East Bay, South 

 Georgia; in 54n6'S., 36^29'W. Charted in 1902 by 

 Lt. Samuel A. Duse, cartographer of the SwedAE, 

 1901-4, for whom it is named. 



DUSE BAY: bay indenting the SE. coast of Louis 

 Philippe Pen. between View Pt. and the SW. end 

 of Tabarin Pen.; in 63°35'S., 57°15'W. Disc, by a 

 party under J. Gunnar Andersson, of the SwedAE, 

 1901-4. Named by Nordenskjold, leader of the 

 SwedAE, for Lt. Samuel A. Duse. Not adopted: 

 Duce Bay, Duses Bukt [Swedish] . 



DUSEBERG, CAPE: cape surmounted by a con- 

 spicuous rocky cone, about 1,500 ft. in el., lying 

 at the SW. side of Mt. Scott, on the W. coast of 

 Palmer Pen.; in about 65°11'S., 64°08'W. Disc, 

 and named by the BelgAE, 1897-99, under De Ger- 

 lache. 



Duses Bukt: see Duse Bay. 



DUSTIN ISLAND : the larger and more southern 

 of the two Fletcher Is., lying near the W. end of 

 Bellingshausen Sea, about 35 mi. ESE. of Cape 

 Palmer, ofT Eights Coast; in about 72°05'S., 

 95°05'W. Disc, by the USAS in a flight from the 

 Bear on Feb. 27, 1940. Named by R. Adm. Byrd 

 for Frederick G. Dustin, member of the ByrdAE, 

 1933-35, and mechanic with the USAS, 1939-41. 



DUTHOIT POINT: point which forms the SE. 

 tip of Nelson I., in the South Shetland Is.; in 

 62°18'S., 58°50'W. The name is used on a chart 

 based upon a 1935 survey of these islands by DI 

 personnel on the Discovery II. 



DYER PLATEAU: broad upland with elevations 

 ranging between 6,500 and 9,000 ft., bounded on 

 the W. by George VI Sound, on the E. by Mt. 

 Wakefield, the Eternity Mtns. and Mt. Andrew 

 Jackson, on the N. by Fleming GL, and with a 

 southern boundary not as yet determined; center- 

 ing in about 70°45'S., 65°30'W. The plateau was 

 explored on land and photographed, from the air 

 by the USAS, 1939-41, and named for J. Glenn 

 Dyer, surveyor with the then General Land Office, 

 Dept. of Interior, and leader of the USAS party 

 which sledged from the mouth of Fleming Gl. SW. 

 across the plateau to the Eternity Mountains. 



DYNAMITE ISLET: small, low, rocky islet in 

 Back Bay, lying 0.1 mi. E. of Stonington I., off 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 68°11'S., 67°00'W. 

 First surveyed by the USAS, 1939-41, who referred 

 to it as Petrel Island, a name not approved because 

 it duplicates an existing name in the Antarctic. 

 The name Dynamite Islet was prbposed by Finn 

 Ronne, leader of RARE, 1947-48. In 1947 it was 

 necessary to dynamite a passage for the Port of 

 Beaumont, Texas through the ice to the E. of this 

 islet. Not adopted: Petrel Island. 



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