GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



HOLLICK-KENYON PLATEAU: plateau area of 

 Ellsworth Highland, over 6,000 ft. in el., centering 

 in about 79°S., 108°W. Disc, by Lincoln Ellsworth 

 on his trans-Antarctic flight of 1935, and named 

 by Ellsworth for his pilot, Herbert Hollick-Kenyon. 

 Not adopted : Hollick Kenyon Plateau. 



HOLL ISLAND: rocky, triangular-shaped island, 

 about 1.7 mi. long and rising to about 310 ft. in 

 el., marking the SW. end of the Windmill Is., off 

 Budd Coast; in 66°25'S., 110'=27'E. Delineated 

 from aerial photographs taken by USN Op. Hjp., 

 1946-47, and USN Op. Wml., 1947-48. Named by 

 the US-ACAN for Lt. Richard C. HoU, USNR, 

 photogrammetrist with the Navy Hydrographic 

 Office, who served as surveyor with the USN Op. 

 Wml. parties which established astronomical con- 

 trol stations on Holl I. and along Queen Mary and 

 Knox Coasts. 



HOLMAN DOME: dome-shaped nunatak about 

 2 mi. SW. of Watson Bluff, on the E. side of David I., 

 off Queen Mary Coast; in about 66°28'S., 98°48'E. 

 Charted by the AAE under Mawson, 1911-14, who 

 named it for the Hon. William Arthur Holman, 

 Premier of New South Wales in 1911, and later 

 member of the Commonwealth House of Repre- 

 sentatives. 



HOLME BAY: bay about 20 mi. wide, contain- 

 ing many islands and islets, lying just N. of the 

 Framnes Mtns. along Mac-Robertson Coast; in 

 about 67°35'S., 62°42'E. Mapped by Norwegian 

 cartographers from aerial photographs taken by 

 a Nor. exp. under Christensen in January-Febru- 

 ary 1937, and so named because of its island- 

 studded character. 



Holmen Graa: see Grey Islet. 



HOLMES, MOUNT: buttress-type mountain 

 about 4,800 ft. in el., lying about 4 mi. NW. of Mt. 

 Hayes on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 66°47'S., 

 64°16'W. Charted in 1947 by the FIDS, and photo- 

 graphed from the air by the RARE under Ronne. 

 Named by the FIDS for Maurice Holmes, author 

 of An Introduction to the Bibliography of Captain 

 James Cook, R.N. (London, 1936) . 



HOLMES GLACIER: piedmont glacier about 10 

 mi. wide, formed by the confluence of small chan- 

 nel glaciers which flow from the continental ice 

 on the NE. flank of Norths Highland to the W. 

 side of Porpoise Bay, about 10 mi. SSE. of Cape 

 Spieden, on Banzare Coast; in about 66°30'S., 

 127°15'E. Delineated from aerial photographs 

 taken by USN Op. Hjp., 1946-47, and named by 



the US-ACAN for Dr. Silas Holmes, assistant sur- 

 geon on the brig Porpoise of the USEE under 

 Wilkes, 1838-42. 



HOLTEDAHL BAY: bay, about 7 mi. long in a 

 NW.-SE. direction and averaging about 6 mi. wide, 

 lying between Ferin Head and Black Head, along 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 66°05'S., 65°25'W. 

 Disc, by the BGLE under Rymill, 1934-37. Named 

 by Rymill for Prof. Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian 

 geologist who conducted geologic research during 

 1927-28, in the South Shetland Is. and the Palmer 

 Arch., to which he was transported by various 

 whaling vessels. 



HOMBRON ROCKS: two rocks about 1.5 mi. 

 apart, lying about 8 mi. NE. of Cape Roquemaurel 

 and 4 mi. off the NW. coast of Louis Philippe Pen.; 

 in 63°28'S., 58°42'W. Disc, by a Fr. exp., 1837-40, 

 under D'Urville, and named by him for Jacques 

 Hombron, a member of the expedition. The rocks 

 were charted by the FIDS in 1946. Not adopted: 

 Honabron Rock. 



Homresund: see Macfie Sound. 



Honabron Rock: see Hombron Rocks. 



HOOD GLACIER: tributary glacier entering the 

 E. side of Beardmore Gl. immediately N. of Mt. 

 Cyril, at the head of Ross Ice Shelf; in about 

 83°50'S., 172°30'E. Disc, and named by the BrAE 

 under Shackleton in December 1908. 



HOOKER, CAPE: cape which forms the NE. end 

 of Low I., in the South Shetland Is.; in 63°16'S., 

 62°00'W. Though the origin of the name Cape 

 Hooker is unknown, it has appeared on charts for 

 over a hundred years and its usage has been estab- 

 lished internationally. The name may be asso- 

 ciated with the voyage of a Br. exp. under Foster 

 in the Chanticleer, 1828-31. 



HOOKER, CAPE : cape which forms the W. side 

 of the entrance to Yule Bay, on the N. coast of 

 Victoria Land; in about 70°35'S., 166°25'E. Disc, 

 in 1841 by a Br. exp. under Ross, who named it 

 for Joseph Dal ton Hooker (later Sir Joseph), 

 naturalist and asst. surgeon on the exp. ship 

 Erebus who became internationally famous as a 

 botanist. 



HOOKER, MOUNT: rounded summit about 

 12,400 ft. in el., standing in the Royal Society 

 Range, SW. of McMurdo Sound, on the W. side of 

 Ross Sea; in about 78°07'S., 162°50'E. Disc, by the 

 BrNAE, 1901-4, under Scott, who named it for Sir 

 Joseph Dalton Hooker. 



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