GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Flanders Bay: see Flandres Bay. 



FLANNERY, CAPE: cape which forms the W. 

 end of Thule I., in the South Sandwich Is.; in 

 59°27'S., 27°21'W. Charted in 1930 by DI per- 

 sonnel on the Discovery II, who named it for Sir 

 Fortescue Flannery, a member of the Discovery 

 Committee. 



FLAT ISLAND: small island lying at the W. 

 side of the entrance to Robertson Bay and at the 

 N. side of Pressure Bay, off the N. coast of Victoria 

 Land; in about 71°20'S., 169°10'E. First charted 

 and named by the BrAE under Scott, 1910-13. 



Flat Isle: see Watchkeeper, The. 



FLATIRON, THE: rocky, triangular-shaped 

 headland about 1,100 ft. in el., which overlooks the 

 SW. part of Granite Hbr. about 1.5 mi. S. of the 

 mouth of Mackay Gl., in Victoria Land; in about 

 77°00'S., 162°26'E. Charted by the BrAE under 

 Scott, 1910-13, who so named it because of its dis- 

 tinctive shape. 



FLATNES ICE TONGUE: small ice tongue, 

 about 2 mi. wide and 3 mi. long, projecting NW. 

 from the continental ice overlying Ingrid Christen- 

 sen Coast, about 3 mi. SW. of Hovde Ice Tongue; 

 in about 69°16'S., 76°25'E. Charted by Norwegian 

 cartographers from aerial photographs taken in 

 January 1937 by the Nor. exp. under Lars Christen- 

 sen, and named Flatnes, a Norwegian word mean- 

 ing flat headland. The generic ice tongue is 

 approved as a more appropriate term on the basis 

 of John H. Roscoe's 1952 compilation from USN 

 Op. Hjp. aerial photographs taken in March 1947. 

 Not adopted: Flatness [Norwegian]. 



FLEMING GLACIER: glacier on the W. coast of 

 Palmer Pen., terminating in Wordie Ice Shelf; in 

 69°12'S., 67°10'W. Together with Bingham Gl. it 

 fills a major depression across Palmer Pen. Disc, 

 and charted by the BGLE under Rymill, 1934-37. 

 Photographed from the air by the USAS on Sept. 

 29, 1940. This hitherto unnamed feature was 

 named by the US-ACAN in 1947 for Rev. W. L. S. 

 Fleming, Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Univ.; 

 also chaplain, chief scientist, and geologist of the 

 BGLE. 



Flenserne: see Flensing Islets. 



FLENSING ISLETS: group of islets lying about 

 0.5 mi. N. of Jebsen Rocks and about 1 mi. off the 

 W. side of Signy I., in the South Orkney Is.; in 

 60°42'S., 45°41'W. These islets appear to be first 

 charted and named by a Nor. whaling exp. under 

 S0rlle, 1912-13. It is possible that in former 

 years these islets were used for flensing, the proc- 



ess of stripping the skin and blubber from whales. 

 Not adopted: Flenserne [Norwegian]. 



FLETCHER, CAPE: minor projection of the 

 coastline related to a slight eminence which breaks 

 the relief of an otherwise low coast, about 26 mi. 

 W. of Scullin Monolith, on Mac-Robertson Coast; 

 in about 67°42'S., 65°38'E. Disc, by the BANZARE, 

 1929-31, under Mawson, and named by him for 

 H. O. Fletcher, asst. biologist with the BANZARE. 



FLETCHER ISLANDS: two prominent islands, 

 McNamara I. and Dustin I., lying near the W. end 

 of Bellingshausen Sea, about 40 mi. E. of Cape 

 Palmer, off Eights Coast; in about 71°55'S., 

 94°55'W. Disc, by the USAS in a flight from the 

 Bear on Feb. 27, 1940, and named by R. Adm. Byrd 

 for Fred C. Fletcher of Boston, Mass., a contributor 

 to the expedition. 



FLETCHER ISLET: the largest and southern- 

 most of the Fletcher Islets, lying immediately N. 

 of the small coastal nunatak which lies about 1 mi. 

 NE. of Whetter Nunatak, in the E. portion of Com- 

 monwealth Bay off George V Coast; in about 

 66°55'S., 143°00'E. Disc, in 1912 by the AAE under 

 Mawson, and named by him for Frank D. Fletcher, 

 first officer on the exp. ship Aurora. 



FLETCHER ISLETS: small group of iselts in the 

 E. part of Commonwealth Bay, lying close seaward 

 of a small coastal nunatak which stands about 

 1 mi. NE. of Whetter Nunatak, off George V Coast; 

 in about 66°54'S., 143°00'E. Disc, in 1912 by the 

 AAE under Mawson, who applied the name Fletcher 

 to the large islet at the S. end of this group. The 

 name Fletcher is also adopted for this islet group 

 in keeping with the interpretation shown on the 

 US-ACAN reconnaissance map of 1955 compiled 

 from aerial photographs taken by USN Op. Hjp., 

 1946-47. 



FLINT GLACIER: glacier which flows S. into 

 Whirlwind Inlet between Demorest Gl. and Cape 

 Northrop, on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 

 67°20'S., 65°25'W. Disc, by Sir Hubert Wilkins 

 on his flight of Dec. 20, 1928, and photographed 

 from the air by the USAS in 1940. Charted by the 

 FIDS in 1947, who named it for Richard F. Flint, 

 glaciologist and prof, of geology at Yale University. 



Flint Peninsula: see Churchill Peninsula. 



FLORA, MOUNT: mountain, about 1,700 ft. in 

 el., containing a well-defined cirque which faces NE. 

 lying about 0.5 mi. ESE. of the head of Hope Bay, 

 at the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; in 63°25'S., 57°01'W. 

 Disc, by the SwedAE under Nordenskjold, 1901-4, 

 and named by J. Gunnar Andersson, second-in- 



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