GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Arch.; in 64°32'S., 63°55'W. Disc, but incom- 

 pletely defined by a Ger. exp. under Dallmann, 

 1873-74, who named it for Hamburg, Germany, 

 home port of the expedition. The bay was more 

 accurately charted by the FrAE, 1903-5, under 

 Charcot. Not adopted: Hambourg Bay. 



HAMILTON, MOUNT: twin-peak mountain 

 about 7,400 ft. in el., standing on the S. side of 

 Barne Inlet, about 40 mi. SW. of Cape Selborne, on 

 the W. side of Ross Ice Shelf; in about 80°40'S., 

 158°25'E. Disc, by the BrNAE, 1901-4, under 

 Scott, who named it for Adm. Sir Richard Vesey 

 Hamilton, who served on Arctic voyages during 

 1850-54, and who was a member of the BrNAE 

 Ship Committee. 



HAMILTON, MOUNT: mountain rising to about 

 5,000 ft. in el., which marks the W. end of the 

 Tapley Mtns., standing at the E. side of the lower 

 reaches of Robert Scott Gl., in the Queen Maud 

 Range; in about 85°39'S., 151°48'W. Disc, in De- 

 cember 1934 by the ByrdAE Geological party under 

 Quin Blackburn, and named by Byrd for G. C. 

 Hamilton, general manager of the McClatchy 

 Newspapers, of Sacramento, California, who was a 

 contributor to the expedition. 



HAMILTON POINT: flat-topped point marking 

 the S. side of the entrance to Markham Bay on the 

 SE. side of James Ross I., lying S. of the NE. end 

 of Palmer Pen.; in 64°22'S., 57°18'W. Disc, by a 

 Br. exp. under Ross, 1839-43, who named it Cape 

 Hamilton after Capt. W. A. B. Hamilton, RN, at 

 that time private secretary to the Earl of Hadding- 

 ton, and later Second Secretary to the Admiralty. 

 The feature was first surveyed by the SwedAE 

 under Nordenskjold, 1901-4, and resurveyed by 

 the FIDS in 1953. Point is considered a more 

 suitable descriptive term for the feature than 

 cape. Not adopted: Cape Hamilton. 



HAMMERSLY, CAPE: ice-covered cape marking 

 the E. side of the entrance to Colvocoresses Bay, on 

 Budd Coast; in about 66°00'S., 115°35'E. Deline- 

 ated from aerial photographs taken by USN Op. 

 Hjp., 1946-47, and named by the US-ACAN for 

 George W. Hammersly, midshipman on the sloop of 

 war Vincennes of the USEE under Wilkes, 1838-42. 



HAMMOND GLACIER: valley glacier about 11 

 mi. wide and of undetermined length, fiowing 

 from the Rockefeller Plateau in a NW. direction 

 between the Haines Mtns. and Mt. Woodward to 

 Sulzberger Bay, in Marie Byrd Land; in about 

 77°20'S., 146°45'W. Disc, in 1934 by the ByrdAE, 

 and named by Byrd for John Hays Hammond, 

 American mining engineer and philanthropist. 

 Not adopted: Hammond Inlet, John Hayes Ham- 

 mond Inlet, John Hays Hammond Glacier. 



Hammond Inlet: see Hammond Glacier. 



HAMPTON, MOUNT: the northernmost peak of 

 the Executive Committee Range, in Marie Byrd 

 Land; in about 76°30'S., 127°00'W. Disc, by the 

 USAS on a flight on Dec. 15, 1940, and named for 

 Mrs. Ruth Hampton, Dept. of the Interior member 

 of the USAS Executive Committee. 



HAMPTON GLACIER: glacier in the NE. part of 

 Alexander I Island, about 25 mi. long and 5 mi. 

 wide, which flows in a NNE. direction along the W. 

 wall of the Douglas Range and enters Schokalsky 

 Bay; in 69°20'S., 70°05'W. First seen from the air 

 and photographed during a flight up this glacier 

 in 1937 by the BGLE. The mouth of the glacier 

 was surveyed in 1948 by the FIDS. Named for 

 Wilfred E. Hampton of the BGLE, 1934-37, who 

 piloted the airplane that made the above men- 

 tioned flight in 1937. 



Hamrehovden: see Trethewry Point. 



Hamreneset: see Bertha Island. 



HANNAM ISLETS: small group of rocky islets 

 lying about 1 mi. N. of Whetter Nunatak in the E. 

 portion of Commonwealth Bay, off George V Coast; 

 in about 66°56'S., 143°56'E. Disc, in 1912 by the 

 AAE under Mawson, and named by him for Walter 

 N. Hannam, wireless telegrapher with the AAE 

 Main Base Party. 



HANSEN, CAPE : cape which separates Marshall 

 and Iceberg Bays on the S. coast of Coronation I., 

 in the South Orkney Is.; in 60°40'S., 45°36'W. The 

 name appears on a chart based upon a running 

 survey in 1912-13 by Petter S0rlle, Norwegian 

 whaling captain. Not adopted: Cape Haasen. 



HANSEN ISLAND: island, about 4 mi. long and 

 1.5 mi. wide, lying immediately N. of The Gullet at 

 the head of Hanusse Bay, off the W. coast of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 67°07'S., 67°36'W. First surveyed in 1936 

 by the BGLE under Rymill, who used the provi- 

 sional name North Island for this feature. The 

 island was resurveyed in 1948 by the FIDS, and 

 renamed for Leganger H. Hansen, Mgr. at Messrs. 

 Chr. Salvesen's whaling station at Leith Hbr., 

 South Georgia, 1916-37, who gave great assistance 

 to the BGLE, 1934-37. Not adopted : North Island. 



HANSEN MOUNTAINS : large group of nunataks 

 which rise to an estimated 7,000 ft. in el., and 

 protrude about 1,000 ft. above the ice level, lying 

 about 55 mi. S. of Stefansson Bay and extending 

 25 mi. in a NW.-SW. direction, inland from the 

 E. end of Kemp Coast; in about 68°16'S., 58°47'E. 

 Disc, by a Nor. exp. under Christensen in January- 

 February 1937 and mapped from aerial photo- 



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