GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



EAST STACK: rock outcrop, about 300 ft. in el., 

 on the E. side of an ice-covered promontory on 

 Kemp Coast that lies about 25 mi. SE. of the 

 entrance to Edward VIII Bay; in about 67°04'S., 

 58°15'E. Disc, and named by DI personnel on the 

 William Scoresby, February 1936. Not adopted: 

 Austskotet [Norwegian]. 



Ebba Glacier: see Liotard Glacier. 



EBONY WALL: dark, nearly vertical rock wall, 

 about 1,000 ft. in el., standing at the head of a 

 large glacier which flows northward along the E. 

 side of the Ivory Pinnacles. The wall is about 2 

 mi. long and forms a part of the W. escarpment of 

 Detroit Plateau near the base of Louis Philippe 

 Pen.; in 63°53'S., 59°04'W. Charted in 1948 by the 

 FIDS who gave this descriptive name. 



ECHO MOUNTAIN: conspicuous mountain, 

 about 2,600 ft. in el., standing on the W. side of 

 Laws Gl., about 2.7 mi. NNW. of Cape Vik, Corona- 

 tion I., South Orkney Is.; in 60°37'S., 45°42'W. 

 Surveyed in 1948-49 by the FIDS, and so named 

 by them because of the remarkable echoing noted 

 in this part of Laws Glacier. 



ECHO PASS: pass, about 1,100 ft. in el., lying 1.5 

 mi. SW. of Grytviken, South Georgia, in the chain 

 of mountains which extend SW. from Mt. Hodges; 

 in 54°17'S., 36°33'W. The pass provides a ski 

 route from the whaling station at Grytviken to 

 the head of Cumberland West Bay. The name is 

 used on the chart of a Ger. exp., 1928-29, under 

 Kohl-Larsen, who states that the name was already 

 in use by whalers. Not adopted: Echopass, Echo- 

 Pass. 



EDDYSTONE ROCKS: chain of rocks extending 

 in a NE.-SW. direction for about 3 mi., lying about 

 5 mi. W. of Start Pt., Livingston I., in the South 

 Shetland Is.; in 62°33'S., 61°23'W. The name 

 dates back to about 1822 and is now established 

 international usage. Not adopted: Eddystone. 



EDEN GLACIER: glacier about 10 mi. long, 

 which flows in a southerly direction into the head 

 of Cabinet Inlet, close NW. of Lyttelton Ridge, on 

 the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 66°15'S., 63°14'W. 

 Charted by the FIDS and photographed from the 

 air by the RARE in 1947. Named by the FIDS for 

 Rt. Hon. Robert Anthony Eden, M.P., then British 

 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and member 

 of the War Cabinet. 



EDGELL, MOUNT: mountain about 5,500 ft. in 

 el., surmounting Cape Jeremy, the E. side of the 

 N. entrance to George VI Sound, on the W. coast 

 of Palmer Pen.; in 69°26'S., 68°16'W. Disc, by 



the FrAE under Charcot, 1908-10. Seen from a 

 great distance and thought to be an island, it was 

 named He Gordon Bennett for James Gordon Ben- 

 nett, 1841-1918, of the New York Herald, who gave 

 financial aid to the expedition. The BGLE under 

 Rymill, surveying this area in 1936-37 and finding 

 no island, applied the name Mount Edgell to the 

 feature now recognized as Charcot's He Gordon 

 Bennett. The name Mount Edgell, after Sir John 

 Augustine Edgell, Hydrographer of the British 

 Navy, 1932-45, has since become established 

 through international usage. Not adopted: He 

 Gordon Bennett [French]. 



EDGELL BAY: bay about 1.5 mi. long and wide 

 indenting the NE. side of Nelson I., in the South 

 Shetland Is.; in 62°15'S., 58°57'W. This bay ap- 

 pears in rough outline on Powell's chart of the 

 South Shetland Is. published in 1822. It was 

 charted during 1934-35 by DI personnel on the 

 Discovery II, who named it for V. Adm. Sir John 

 Augustine Edgell. 



EDISTO CHANNEL: channel, filled in January 

 1948 by Edisto Ice Tongue at its S. end, which ex- 

 tends in a NE.-SW. direction between the Taylor 

 Its. and the NW. islands of the Highjump Arch., on 

 the W. and the Hunger Hills, Thomas I., and the 

 remaining islands in the Highjump Arch, on the E., 

 lying off the W. end of Knox Coast; in about 

 66°05'S., 100°48'E. Delineated from aerial photo- 

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

 by the US-ACAN for the U.S.S. Edisto, one of the 

 two icebreakers of USN Op. Wml., 1947-48, which 

 assisted in establishing astronomical control sta- 

 tions along Wilhelm II, Queen Mary, Knox and 

 Budd Coasts. 



EDISTO ICE TONGUE: an ice tongue about 5 

 mi. wide, forming an extension of Apfel Gl. and 

 part of the main flow of Scott Gl., lying at the 

 W. and NW. sides of the Bunger Hills and terminat- 

 ing in Edisto Chan, against the W. side of Thomas 

 I., off the W. end of Knox Coast; in about 66°10'S., 

 100°40'E. Delineated from aerial photographs 

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

 US-ACAN because of its close association with 

 Edisto Channel. 



EDISTO ROCK: low rock 1.2 mi. SW. of the W. 

 tip of Neny I., lying in Marguerite Bay off the W. 

 coast of Palmer Pen.; in 68°13'S., 67°08'W. Sur- 

 veyed in 1947 by the FIDS, who named it for the 

 U.S.S. Edisto, icebreaker with USN Op. Wml., which 

 visited Marguerite Bay in February 1948 and as- 

 sisted in the relief of the RARE and FIDS parties 

 on Stonington Island. 



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