GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Amundsen in 1911, and named for Dr. Fridtjof 

 Nansen, polar explorer, who helped support 

 Amundsen's expedition. Not adopted: Mount 

 Nansen. 



Fridjof -Nansen Bank: see Fridtjof Nansen Banks. 



Fridjof Sound: see Fridtjof Sound. 



FRIDTJOF NANSEN BANKS: submerged, rocl^y 

 ridge, about 3.5 mi. long and about 0.5 mi. wide, 

 with a depth of about 18 ft. over its E. end, situ- 

 ated about 3.5 mi. ENE. of Cape George, off the 

 N. coast of South Georgia; in about 54°16'S., 

 36°09'W. Named after the S.S. Fridtjof Nansen 

 which was wreclced on this ridge in 1907. Not 

 adopted: Fridjof -Nansen Banlc, Fridjof -Nansen 

 Banks, Fridtjof-Nansen Banks, Fritjof Nansen 

 Bank, Nansen Bank, Nansen Rocks. 



Fridtjof Nansen Hafen: see Stromness Harbor. 



FRIDTJOF SOUND: sound about 6 mi. long, 

 in a N.-S. direction, and 2 mi. wide, which sep- 

 arates Andersson and Jonassen Islands from 

 Tabarin Pen., at the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; in 

 63°35'S., 56°43'W. Disc, by the SwedAE, 1901-4, 

 under Nordenskjbld, and named after the Fridtjof, 

 a vessel dispatched from Sweden to search for 

 the SwedAE when it was feared lost in 1903. Not 

 adopted: Detroit du Frithjof [French], Fridjof 

 Sound, Frithjof Sound, Frithiofs Sund [Swedish]. 



FRIEDERICHSEN GLACIER: glacier about 7 

 mi. long, which flows in an easterly direction into 

 Cabinet Inlet, close N. to Mt. Hulth, on the E. 

 coast of Palmer Pen.; in 66°38'S., 64°09'W. 

 Charted by the FIDS and photographed from the 

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

 Ludwig Friederichsen, German cartographer who 

 in 1895 published a chart based upon all existing 

 explorations of northern Palmer Peninsula and 

 the South Shetland Islands. Not adopted: Bailey 

 Glacier. 



Friesland Island: see Livingston Island. 



Friesland Peak: see Barnard, Mount. 



Friesland Point: see Pin Point. 



FRIGGA PEAK: peak about 5,100 ft. in el., 

 which stands at the S. side of Anderson Gl. on 

 the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 66°25'S., 64°00'W. 

 Charted by the FIDS and photographed from the 

 air by the RARE in 1947. The FIDS named it after 

 the mythological Norse goddess Frigga, the "cloud 

 spinner," because cloud was observed to form on 

 the summit of this peak earlier than on any other 

 feature in this vicinity. 



Frithiof Sound; Frithiofs Sund: see Fridtjof 

 Sound. 



Frithjof, Detroit du: see Fridtjof Sound. 



Fritjof Nansen Bank: see Fridtjof Nansen Banks. 



Froa: see Couling Island. 



FROST GLACIER: chaimel glacier about 8 mi. 

 wide and 7 mi. long, flowing N. from the conti- 

 nental ice to the head of Porpoise Bay, on Banzare 

 Coast; in about 66°55'S., 128°50'E. Delineated 

 from aerial photographs taken by USN Op. Hjp., 

 1946-47, and named by the US-AC AN for John 

 Frost, boaswain on the brig Porpoise of the USEE 

 under Wilkes, 1838-42. 



FRY GLACIER: long, deep outlet glacier, about 

 2 mi. wide, with vertical, smooth rock walls, which 

 merges with Albrecht Penck Gl., about 25 mi. S. 

 of Nordenskjold Ice Tongue, on the coast of Vic- 

 toria Land; in about 76°38'S., 162°32'E. First 

 charted by the BrAE, 1907-9, under Shackleton, 

 who named it for A. M. Fry, of Bristol, England, 

 a contributor to the expedition. 



Fry Strait; Fyr Strait: see Fyr Channel. 



FRYER POINT: northern point of Bristol I., in 

 the South Sandwich Is.; in 58°59'S., 26°30'W. 

 Charted in 1930 by DI personnel on the Discovery 

 II, and named for Lt. Cdr. D. H. Fryer, RN, captain 

 of H. M. Surveying Ship Fitzroy. 



FUCHS ICE PIEDMONT: large ice piedmont, 

 about 6 to 10 mi. wide and about 80 mi. long, ex- 

 tending in a NE.-SW. direction along the entire 

 W. coast of Adelaide I.; centering in 67°10'S., 

 68°55'W. First roughly surveyed in 1909 by the 

 FrAE under Charcot. It was named by the FIDS 

 for Vivian E. Fuchs, FIDS base leader and geolo- 

 gist at Stonington I. in 1948-48. 



FULMAR BAY: semi-circular bay, about 1 mi. 

 wide at the entrance, lying between Moreton Pt. 

 and Return Pt. at the W. end of Coronation I., 

 South Orkney Is.; in 60°38'S., 46°02'W. First 

 sighted and roughly charted by Capt. George 

 Powell and Capt. Nathaniel Palmer on their joint 

 cruise in December 1821. It was surveyed in 1933 

 by DI personnel. So named in 1954 by the Br-APC 

 because large numbers of Antarctic fulmars {Ful- 

 marus glacialoides) nest in this area. 



FURNESS GLACIER: small glacier flowing 

 northward to the coast between Cape Belsham and 

 Mt. Houlder, on the N. coast of Elephant I., in 

 the South Shetland Is.; in about 61°02'S., 55°00'W. 

 Charted and named by a Br. exp. under Shackleton, 

 1914-16. 



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