GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



coast of Palmer Pen.; in 70°35'S., 61°45'W. The 

 rocky N. wall of this peninsula is probably the fea- 

 ture which, on his flight on Dec. 20, 1928, Sir Hubert 

 Wilkins sighted and named "Cape Eielson" from 

 a position above Stefansson Str. (Wilkins gave 

 the name to the farthest S. rock outcrop seen from 

 this position.) This rock wall is conspicuous in 

 the aerial photographs of the peninsula taken by 

 members of the US AS in 1940 from an aerial posi- 

 tion at the N. side of Stefansson Strait. The pen- 

 insula is named for Carl B. Eielson, pilot on Wil- 

 kins' flight of 1928. 



Eigg Rock: see Nigg Rock. 



EIGHTS COAST: that portion of the coast of 

 Antarctica along the S. shore of Bellingshausen 

 Sea, extending from about 88°00'W., to Cape Fly- 

 ing Fish, in about 100°50'W. Named by the US- 

 SCAN for James Eights of Albany, N. Y., geologist 

 on the Annawan in 1830, who carried on geologic 

 investigations in the South Shetland Is., and who 

 cruised westward on the Annawan, in company 

 with the Penguin, to 103°W. Eights, the earliest 

 American scientist in the Antarctic, discovered the 

 first known fossils in the Antarctic region, a tree 

 section, in the South Shetland Islands. As a re- 

 sult of these investigations Eights, in 1833, pub- 

 lished in the Transactions of the Albany Institute 

 (Vol. 2), what have proved to be remarkably ac- 

 curate observations and conclusions on the natural 

 phenomena of the region. Not adopted: Robert 

 English Coast (western part), Walgreen Coast 

 (eastern part). 



Eights Peninsula: see Thurston Peninsula. 



EILLIUM ISLAND: small island about 1.2 mi. 

 NW. of Route Pt., off the NW. tip of Laurie I., in 

 the South Orkney Is.; in 60°42'S., 44°51'W. Prob- 

 ably first seen by Capt. George Powell and Capt. 

 Nathaniel Palmer during their joint cruise in 1821. 

 It was charted by the ScotNAE, 1902-4, under Dr. 

 William S. Bruce, who named it for his son Eillium. 

 Not adopted: Eillum Island. 



Eillum Island: see Eillium Island. 



Einstodingane: see Stanton Group. 



EKBLAW, MOUNT : easternmost mountain of the 

 Clark Mtns., in the E. part of the Edsel Ford Ranges 

 of Marie Byrd Land; in about 77°18'S., 141°40'W. 

 Disc, on aerial flights from the West Base of the 

 USAS in 1940 and named for Prof. W. E. Ekblaw, 

 Prof, of Geography at Clark Univ. and a member of 

 the Crocker Land Expedition in the Arctic, 

 1913-17. 



EKELOF POINT: high rocky point which lies 5 

 mi. SW. of Cape Gage and marks the N. side of 

 the entrance to Markham Bay on the E. coast of 

 James Ross I.; in 64°14'S., 57°12'W. First seen and 

 surveyed by the SwedAE under Nordenskjold, 

 1901-4, who named it Cape Ekelof after Dr. Eric 

 Ekelof, medical officer of the expedition. It was 

 surveyed by the FIDS in 1953. Point is considered 

 a more suitable descriptive term for this feature 

 than cape. Not adopted: Cape Ekelof, Cape 

 Ekelof. 



EKLUND ISLANDS : group of islands which rise 

 through the ice near the SW. end of George VI 

 Sound; in 73°16'S., 71°45'W. The largest island, 

 about 5 mi. in extent and 1,300 ft. in el., was disc, 

 in December 1940 by Finn Ronne and Carl R. 

 Eklund of the USAS during their 1,097-mile sledge 

 Journey S. from Stonington I. to the SW. part of 

 George VI Sound and return. At that time this 

 large island, named by Ronne for Eklund, ornithol- 

 ogist and assistant biologist of the exp., was the 

 only land, protruding above an area of hummocky 

 ice. V. E. Fuchs and R. J. Adie of the FIDS 

 sledged to the SW. part of George VI Sound in 

 1949, at which time, because of a recession of the 

 ice in the sound, they were able to determine that 

 the island disc, by Ronne and Eklund is the largest 

 of a group of mainly ice-covered islands. On the 

 basis of original discovery, the US-ACAN recom- 

 mends that the name Eklund be applied to the 

 island group rather than the single island disc, 

 by Ronne and Eklund. 



ELAND MOUNTAINS: range of mountains 

 which rise to above 8,000 ft. in el. and extend about 

 20 mi. in a NE.-SW. direction along the S. side of 

 Clifford Gl., on the E. .coast of Palmer Pen.; in 

 70°35'S., 63°10'W. These mountains were disc, 

 in 1936 by the BGLE, and they appear in aerial 

 photographs taken by the USAS in September 1940. 

 During 1947 the range was photographed from the 

 air by members of the RARE, who in conjunction 

 with the FIDS charted it from the ground. The 

 name Eland, Lady Clifford's maiden name, was 

 given by Sir Miles Clifford, Gov. of the Falkland 

 Islands, at the request of members of the FIDS 

 staff. 



Elefanten-Bucht: see Elephant Bay. 



Elefant oya: see Elephant Island. 



ELEPHANT BAY: small circular bay lying mid- 

 way between Cape Demidov and , Klutschak Pt. 

 along the S. coast and near the W. end of South 

 Georgia; in 54°09'S., 37°44'W. The name, which 

 was probably applied by early sealers at South 

 Georgia, was recorded on the chart of the Ger. exp. 

 under Kohl-Larsen, 1928-29, and the chart by DI 



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