GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



the BGLE sledge party found their way to George 

 VI Sound via this glacier in 1936. 



EVA, CAPE: cape which forms the NW. end of 

 Peter I Island; in about 68°42'S., 90°39'W. Charted 

 and named in 1927 by a Nor. exp. in the Odd I 

 under Tofte. Not adopted: Evas Cape. 



EVANS, CAPE: cape on the W. side of Ross I., 

 forming the N. side of the entrance to Erebus Bay; 

 in about 77°38'S., 166°24'E. Disc, by the BrNAE, 

 1901-4, under Scott, who named it the Skuary. 

 Scott's second exp., the BrAE, 1910-13, built its 

 headquarters here, re-naming the cape for Lt. 

 Edward R. G. R. Evans, RN, who was second-in- 

 command of the expedition. Not adopted: Skuary. 



EVANS, MOUNT: mountain with twin summits, 

 about 3,900 and 3,700 ft. in el., standing at the S. 

 side of Debenham Gl. about 6 mi. WSW. of Lizards 

 Foot, in Victoria Land; in about 77°14'S., 162°38'E. 

 Disc, by the BrNAE, 1901-4, under Scott, who 

 named it for Lt. Edward R. G. R. Evans, RN, of the 

 Morning, relief ship to the expedition. 



EVANS BAY: bay about 15 mi. wide in the SE. 

 part of MacKenzie Bay, formed by an indentation 

 in the Amery Ice Shelf immediately E. of Cape 

 Child, along Lars Christensen Coast; in about 

 68°40'S., 71°45'E. Originally charted by the 

 BANZARE, under Mawson, from an air survey of 

 the boundaries of McKenzie Bay made on Feb. 10, 

 1931. Probably named for Sir Edward R. G. R. 

 Evans, then R. Adm. commanding the Royal Aus- 

 tralian Navy. 



EVANS COVE: cove about 2.5 mi. wide, lying 

 between Inexpressible I. and Northern Foothills 

 along the coast of Victoria Land; in about 74°59'S., 

 163°47'E. First charted by the BrAE, 1907-9, 

 under Shackleton, and presumably named by him 

 for Capt. F. P. Evans, master of the Koonya, which 

 towed the exp. ship Nimrod S. in 1907, and later of 

 the Nimrod during the last year of the expedition. 



EVANS INLET: circular embayment, about 9 mi. 

 in diameter, lying between Shiver Pt. and White- 

 side Pt., along the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 

 65°03'S., 61°36'W. Disc, by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 

 an aerial flight, Dec. 20, 1928, and named by him 

 for E. S. Evans of Detroit. It was resighted and 

 charted by the FIDS in 1947. 



Evas Cape: see Eva, Cape. 



EVENSEN, CAPE: bold promontory lying W. of 

 Waldeck-Rousseau Peak, on the W. coast of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 66?10'S., 65°49'W. Disc, by the FrAE, 

 1903-05, under Charcot, and named by him for 



Capt. C. J. Evensen of the Hertha, who explored 

 along the W. coast of Palmer Pen. in 1893. Not 

 adopted: Cape Evenson, Cape Waldeck Rousseau. 



Evensen Bay: see Auvert Bay. 



EVENSEN NUNATAK: nunatak about 1.5 mi. 

 NW. of Dallmann Nunatak in the Seal Nunataks 

 group, off the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 64°59'S., 

 60°25'W. Evensen Nunatak was first charted by 

 the FIDS in August 1947, and named by them 

 for Capt. C. J. Evensen. 



Evenson, Cape: see Evensen, Cape. 



EWING ISLAND: ice-covered, dome-shaped is- 

 land, about 8 mi. in diameter, lying about 15 mi. 

 NE. of Cape Collier, off the E. coast of Palmer Pen.;' 

 in 69°54'S., 61°13'W. Disc, from the air on Nov. 

 7, 1947 by RARE, under Ronne, who named it for 

 Maurice Ewing of Columbia Univ., who assisted 

 in planning the RARE seismological program. 



EXASPERATION INLET: ice-filled inlet, about 

 18 mi. long in an E.-W. direction and some 16 mi. 

 wide at its entrance between Foyn Pt. and Cape 

 Disappointment, on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 65°20'S., 62°00'W. Charted in 1947 by the FIDS 

 who so named it because the disturbed nature of 

 the ice in the vicinity caused considerable diffi- 

 culty to sledging parties. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE RANGE: range of 

 mountain peaks extending in a NE.-SW. direction 

 from about 76°30'S., 127°W. to 77°30'S., 130°00'W.; 

 in Marie Byrd Land. Disc, by the USAS on a flight, 

 Dec. 15, 1940, and named for the Antarctic Service 

 Executive "Committee. Several peaks were named 

 in honor of members of the committee, except Mt. 

 Sidley, the most imposing mountain in the range, 

 which was disc, by the ByrdAE on a flight in 1934. 



EXPEDITION ROCK: submerged rock lying in 

 the entrance to Jessie Bay, about 2 mi. ENE. of 

 Route Pt., off the N. coast of Laurie I., in the 

 South Orkney Is.; in 60°43'S., 44°46'W. The rock 

 appears to have been first chartered and named 

 on a map based upon a survey of these islands in 

 1933 by DI personnel on the Discovery II. 



EXPRESS COVE: small cove on the N. side of 

 Foca Pt. on the W. coast of Signy I., South Orkney 

 Is.; in 60°42'S., 45°39'W. It has a very indented 

 shoreline with numerous offshore islets and rocks. 

 It was roughly charted in 1933 by DI personnel, 

 and surveyed in 1947 by .the FIDS. Named by the 

 Br-APC after the American schooner Express, 

 Thomas B. Lynch commanding, which visited the 

 South Orkney Is. in 1880. 



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