GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



air by the RARE under Ronne, who in conjunction 

 with the FIDS charted it from the ground. Named 

 by the FIDS for George Grimminger, American 

 meteorologist and joint author of the meteorologi- 

 cal reports of the ByrdAE, 1928-30, and the Byrd- 

 AE, 1933-35, and a member of the latter expedition. 



GRIM ROCK: rock about 3.5 mi. SSE. of Gedges 

 Reef and some 11 mi. WNW. of Cape Trois Perez, 

 lying in Grandidier Chan, off the W. coast of 

 Pahner Pen.; in 65°24'S., 64°32'W. Disc, and 

 named by the BGLE under Rymill, 1934-37. The 

 name is not a personal name. 



GRINDLE ROCK: rock about 700 ft. in el., lying 

 about 0.7 mi. W. of Bristol I., in the South Sandwich 

 Is.; in 59°03'S., 26°37'W. Charted by DI personnel 

 on the Discovery II, and named by them for Sir 

 Gilbert E. A. Grindle, Permanent Under-Secretary 

 of State for the British Colonies. 



GRONLAND, CAPE: cape which forms the west- 

 ernmost of the northern extremities of Anvers I., 

 in the Palmer Arch.; in 64°18'S., 63°32'W. Disc, 

 by a Ger. exp., 1873-74, under Dallmann, who 

 named it for his exp. ship, the Gronland. It was 

 later charted by the FrAE under Charcot, 1903-5. 

 Not adopted: Cape Greenland. 



Grosse Eisebene: see Ross Shelf Ice. 



GROSVENOR RANGE: a group of ridges rising 

 to about 10,500 ft. in el., which stand close NW. of 

 the northwest-facing escarpment of the Queen 

 Maud Range that also marks the head of Shackle- 

 ton Gl. some 20 mi. to the NE., bordering the south 

 polar plateau and pierced by several glaciers; ex- 

 tending from about 85°40'S., 175°00'E. to about 

 86°25'S., 179°E. Disc, by R. Adm. Byrd on the 

 ByrdAE flight to the South Pole in November 1929, 

 and named by him for Gilbert Grosvenor, then 

 Pres. of the National Geographic Soc, which helped 

 finance the expedition. Not adopted: Gilbert 

 Grosvenor Range. 



GROTTO GLACIER: glacier on the E. coast of 

 Alexander I Island, which flows E. to George VI 

 Sound between Belemnite Pt. and Ablation Pt.; in 

 70°45'S., 68°40'W. It is about 3 mi. wide where 

 it emerges from the coastal mountains, and then 

 widens to about 7 mi. at its mouth. It is about 15 

 mi. long. This glacier was first photographed from 

 the air on Nov. 23, 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth, and 

 was mapped from these photographs by W. L. G. 

 Joerg. It was roughly surveyed in 1936 by the 

 BGLE under Rymill, and resurveyed in 1949 by the 

 FIDS. So named by FIDS because a sledge dog was 

 rescued from a crystal-lined crevasse in this glacier. 



GROTTO ISLAND: narrow islet with a serrated 

 coastline, lying about 0.2 mi. NNW. of Galindez I., 

 in the Ai'gentine Is., off the W. coast of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 65°15'S., 64°15'W. Charted and named in 

 1935 by the BGLE under Rymill. 



GROWLER ROCK: rock about 0.75 mi. NNW. of 

 Cape Lions Rump, the W. side of the entrance to 

 King George Bay, King George I., in 62°07'S., 

 58°07'W. Charted and named during 1937 by DI 

 personnel on the Discovery II. The term growler 

 generally is used to denote small pieces of ice barely 

 showing above water. 



GRUBER MOUNTAINS: small mountain group 

 about 8,500 ft. in el., lying in the MiihUg-Hofmann 

 Mtns. between the Mayr and Bundermann Ranges 

 on the W. and the Loesener Platform on the E., 

 in New Schwabenland; in about 71°45'S., 3°45'E. 

 Disc, by the GerAE under Ritscher, 1938-39, and 

 named for Erich Gruber, radio operator on the 

 Boreas, one of the flying boats used by the expedi- 

 tion. 



Gruening, Mount: see Andrew Jackson, Mount. 



GRUENING GLACIER: broad glacier descending 

 SE. between steep rock walls to the NW. part of 

 Hilton Inlet, on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 

 71°52'S., 61°55'W. Disc, by the USAS in a flight 

 down this glacier from East Base on Dec. 30, 1940. 

 Named for Ernest H. Gruening, Dir. of the Div. of 

 Territories and Island Possessions, U. S. Dept. of 

 the Interior, during the inception of the USAS and 

 member of the Executive Committee by which the 

 USAS was directed. 



GRUNDEN ROCK: rock about 40 ft. in el., sur- 

 rounded by a group of smaller rocks, lying close E. 

 of Hut Cove along the SE. side of the entrance to 

 Hope Bay, at the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; in 

 63°24'S., 56°58'W. Disc, by the SwedAE under 

 Nordenskjold, 1901-4. The FIDS, 1945, named the 

 entire group of rocks for Toralf Grunden, member 

 of the SwedAE who wintered at Hope Bay in 1903, 

 but in 1952 the name Grunden was restricted to 

 the largest rock in this group for easier reference 

 to the light beacon established by the Argentine 

 Govt, on the main rock during the previous season. 

 Not adopted: Grunden Rocks. 



Griine Insel; Griin-Insel: see Green Island. 



GRYTVIKEN: settlement and port of entry for 

 shipping, lying at the head of King Edward Cove on 

 the W. side of Cumberland East Bay, South 

 Georgia; in 54°17'S., 36°31'W. The area adjacent 

 to this cove was visited by J. Gunnar Andersson of 

 the SwedAE under Nordenskjold, 1901-4. Anders- 

 son named the place Grytviken, meaning Pot Cove, 



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