GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



of Gardner Inlet N. of Mt. Austin, on the E. coast 

 of Palmer Pen.; in about 74°42'S., 63°15'W. Disc, 

 by the RARE, 1947-48, under Ronne, who named 

 it for George J. Irvine, of the Engineer Depot at 

 Fort Belvoir, Va., who outlined the RARE photo- 

 graphic program. 



IRVING POINT: easternmost point of Visoloi I., 

 in the South Sandwich Is.; in 56°43'S., 27°07'W. 

 Disc, by a Russ. exp. under Bellingshausen in 1819. 

 Charted in 1930 by DI personnel on the Discovery 

 II, and named for Lt. Cdr. J. C. C. Irving, RN 

 (Ret.), who made sketches of the South Sandwich 

 Is. from the ship. Not adopted: Penguin Point. 



ISAACSON POINT: the SE. point of Bellings- 

 hausen I., in the South Sandwich Is.; in 59°26'S., 

 27°03'W. Charted by DI personnel on the Dis- 

 covery II in 1930 and named for Miss S. M. Isaac- 

 son, an assistant to the staff of the Discovery Com- 

 mittee. 



ISAIAH BOWMAN GLACIER: glacier about 5 

 mi. wide and 40 mi. long, which lies SE. of Mt. 

 Ruth Gade, in the Queen Maud Range, and flows 

 NE. to the Ross Ice Shelf; in about 85°30'S., 

 160°00'W. Disc, by the Geological Party of the 

 ByrdAE in 1929, and named for Isaiah Bowman, 

 eminent geographer and Pres. of The Johns Hop- 

 kins Univ. who was dir. of the American Geo- 

 graphical Soc, 1915-35. 



ISELIN BANK: submarine bank lying N. of 

 Pennell Bank and Ross Sea; centering in about 

 71°45'S., 177°30'W. Disc, by personnel on the 

 Bear of Oakland during her cruises for the ByrdAE, 

 1933-35, and named for C. O'D. Iselin, II, of the 

 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 



Isfjorden: see Ice Bay. 



ISLA (plural, ISLAS) : for names beginning with 

 Isla or Islas see under the specific part of the name. 

 For example, for Isla Alfa see Alfa, Isla. (Isla is 

 a Spanish word for "island.") 



ISLANDS POINT: point separating Berg Bay 

 and Relay Bay, lying along the W. shore of Robert- 

 son Bay in northern Victoria Land; in about 

 71°28'S., 169°27'E. Charted in 1911 by the North- 

 ern Party of the BrAE under Scott. Probably so 

 named because several small islands lie off the 

 coast in front of this feature. 



ISLA Y : island in the William Scoresby Arch, off 

 Mac-Robertson Coast, lying about 4 mi. ENE. of 

 the entrance to William Scoresby Bay and forming 

 the NW. shore of Macfie Sound; in about 67°22'S., 



59°45'E. Disc, in February 1936 by DI personnel 

 on the William Scoresby, who probably named it 

 for an island of that name in the Hebrides. 



ISLES, BAY OF: bay, about 9 mi. wide and 

 receding about 3 mi., lying between Capes BuUer 

 and Wilson along the N. coast of South Georgia; 

 in 54°02'S., 37°20'W. Disc, by a Br. exp. imder 

 Cook in 1775, and so named by him because several 

 islands lie in the bay. Not adopted: Bucht der 

 Inseln [German]. 



ISLOTE (plural, ISLOTES) : for names begin- 

 ning with Islote or Islotes see under the specific 

 part of the name. For example, for Islotes Avion 

 see Avion, Islotes. (Islote is a Spanish word for 

 "Islet.") 



IVEAGH, MOUNT: mountain about 11,000 ft. in 

 el., which stands between Keltic and Mill Glaciers 

 on the E. side of Beardmore Gl. in about 85°10'S., 

 171°20'E. Disc, and named by the BrAE, 1907-9, 

 under Shackleton. 



IVORY PINNACLES: two ice-covered peaks, 

 about 3,400 ft. in el., projecting from the S. part 

 of a spur which extends N. from the W. side of 

 Detroit Plateau in the direction of Poynter Hill, 

 on the NW. side of Louis Philippe Pen.; in 63°50'S., 

 59°06'W. Charted in 1948 by members of the 

 FIDS who applied this descriptive name. 



JABET PEAK: peak about 1,800 ft. in el., which 

 marks the SW. end of a serrated ridge about 1 mi. 

 NE. of Port Lockroy, on the NW. side of Wiencke I., 

 in the Palmer Arch.; in 64°49'S., 63°28'W. Prob- 

 ably first sighted in 1898 by the BelgAE imder De 

 Gerlache. The peak was first charted by the 

 FrAE, 1903-5, under Charcot, who named it for 

 Jacques Jabet, boatswain of the exp. ship Franqais. 



JACKLING, MOUNT: peak standing about 0.7 

 mi. W. of Mt. Fitzsimmons, in the N. group of the 

 Rockefeller Mtns. on Edward VII Pen.; in about 

 77°54'S., 155°24'W. Disc, on Jan. 27, 1929 by mem- 

 bers of the ByrdAE on an exploratory flight over 

 this area. 



Jackson, Mount: see Andrew Jackson, Mount. 



Jacob Ruppert Coast: see Ruppert Coast. 



JACQUINOT, MOUNT: pyramidal peak about 

 1,600 ft. in el. with exposed rock on its N. side, 

 lying 2 mi. S. of Cape Legoupil and 0.5 mi. E. of 

 Huon Bay, on the NW. coast of Louis Philippe Pen.; 

 in 63°21'S., 57°53'W. Disc, by a Fr. exp., 1837-40, 

 under D'Urville, who named it for Charles Jac- 

 quinot, captain of the exp. ship Zelee. 



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