GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



BrAE under Scott, 1910-13, and named for Petty 

 Officer Robert Forde, RN, member of the expedi- 

 tion's western geological party. 



FOREL GLACIER: glacier about 2 mi. wide and 

 5 mi. long, flowing SW. into Blind Bay, on the W. 

 coast of Palmer Pen.; in 67°29'S., 66°30'W. First 

 roughly surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE under 

 Rymill. Its lower reaches were surveyed in 1949 

 by the FIDS, and the glacier named by them for 

 Frangois A. Forel, noted Swiss glacier physicist and 

 author, and first Pres. of the International Com- 

 mission of Glaciers in 1894. 



FORELAND ISLET: islet which lies about 3 mi. 

 SSE. of North Foreland, and NE. cape of King 

 George I., in the South Shetland Is.; in 61°55'S., 

 57°36'W. This islet was known to sealers as early 

 as 1821. It takes its name from nearby North 

 Foreland. Not adopted: Foreland Island. 



FORSTERS PASSAGE: body of water lying 

 between Bristol I. and Southern Thule, in the South 

 Sandwich Is.; in 59°14'S., 26°48'W. In 1775, a 

 Br. exp. under Cook applied the name Forster, after 

 John R. Forster, naturalist with the exp., to what 

 appeared to be a bay in essentially this position. 

 The bay was determined to be a strait by a Russ. 

 exp. under Bellingshausen in 1820. Not adopted: 

 Forster's Passage. 



FORT ROCK: rock, about 285 ft. in el., lying close 

 off the SE. end of Green which I., South Shetland 

 Is.; in 62°34'S., 59°34'W. The feature was named 

 Castle Rock, probably by DI personnel following 

 their survey in 1935. The name Fort Rock, which 

 is equally descriptive of the feature, has been ap- 

 proved to avoid confusion with Castle Rock lying 

 close westward of Snow I., only 60 mi. away. Not 

 adopted: Castle Rock. 



FORT WILLIAM: cape forming the NW. side of 

 the entrance to Discovery Bay, on Greenwhich I., in 

 the South Shetland Is.; in 62°26'S., 59°45'W. The 

 name has been in use since at least 1930 and is 

 now established in international usage. 



FORTRESS HILL: hill about 400 ft. in el., which 

 stands about 2 mi. N. of Terrapin Hill on The Naze, 

 a peninsula of northern James Ross I., which lies 

 S. of the NE. tip of Palmer Pen.; in 63°56'S., 

 57°31'W. Charted in 1946 by the FIDS, who gave 

 this descriptive name. 



FORTUNA BAY: bay about 3 mi. long and 1 mi. 

 wide, which lies about midway between Stromness 

 and Antarctic Bays along the N. coast of South 

 Georgia; in 54»07'S., 36°48'W. Named after the 

 Fortuna, one of the vessels of the Nor.-Arg. whaling 



exp. under C. A. Larsen which participated in estab- 

 lishing the first permanent whaling base at Gryt- 

 viken. South Georgia in 1904-5. 



FORTUNA GLACIER: glacier flowing in a NE. 

 direction to its terminus about 1 mi. W. of Cape 

 Best, with an eastern distributary almost reaching 

 the W. side of Fortuna Bay, on the N. coast of South 

 Georgia; in 54°05'S., 36°51'W. Named in about 

 1912, presumably for the vessel Fortuna. 



FORTUNA ROCKS: small group of rocks extend- 

 ing across the E. side of the entrance to Fortuna 

 Bay, along the N. coast of South Georgia; in 

 54°06'S., 36°47'W. These rocks were indicated on 

 a chart by the GerAE under Filchner, who 

 examined Fortuna Bay in 1911-12. The name 

 Fortuna Rocks was in use prior to 1920 and derives 

 from nearby Fortuna Bay. 



FOSDICK MOUNTAINS: an E.-W. trending 

 range of mountains with marked serrated outlines, 

 lying between Balchen Gl. on the N. and Crevasse 

 Valley Gl. on the S., in the Edsel Ford Ranges in 

 Marie Byrd Land; in about 76°30'S., between 

 144°00'W. and 145°25'W. Disc, by the ByrdAE 

 in 1929, and named by Byrd for Raymond B. Fds- 

 dick, Pres. of the Rockefeller Foundation. Not 

 adopted: Raymond Fosdick Mountains, Raymond 

 Fosdick Range. 



FOSSIL BLUFF: prominent rock bluff on the 

 E. coast of Alexander I Island, marking the N. side 

 of the mouth of Uranus Gl. where it enters George 

 VI Sound; in 71°20'S., 68°17'W. This feature was 

 probably flrst sighted by Lincoln Ellsworth, who 

 photographed segments of the coast in this vicin- 

 ity on Nov. 23, 1935. The bluff was first roughly 

 surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE under Rymill, and so 

 named by them because fossils were found in the 

 rock strata there. It was resurveyed in 1948 by 

 the FIDS. 



FOSTER, CAPE: cape lying about 3 mi. SE. of 

 Carlsson Bay on the S. side of James Ross I., lying 

 S. of the NE.tip of Palmer Pen.; in 64°27'S., 

 57°59'W. Disc, by a Br. exp., 1839-43, under Ross, 

 who named it for Capt. Henry Foster, RN, leader 

 of a Br. exp. in the Chanticleer, 1828-31. The cape 

 was charted by the SwedAE under Nordenskjold, 

 1901^. 



FOSTER, MOUNT: peak, about 6,900 ft. in el., 

 standing 4 mi. SW. of Mt. Pisgah in the central 

 part of Smith I., South Shetland Is.; in 63°00'S., 

 62°34'W. Capt. Henry Foster, RN, who visited the 

 island in the Chanticleer in 1829, named this fea- 

 ture Mount Beaufort, but this name has gradually 



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