GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



JOERG PENINSULA: rugged, mountainous pen- 

 insula, about 20 mi. long in an E.-W. direction 

 and averaging about 8 mi. wide, lying between 

 Trail and Solberg Inlets on the E. coast of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 68°12'S., 65°12'W. The peninsula lies 

 in the area explored from the air by Sir Hubert 

 Wilkins in 1928 and Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935, but 

 was first charted by members of the USAS in 1940. 

 It was named in 1952 by the British Antarctic 

 Place-names Committee, following a 1947 survey of 

 this coast by the FIDS, for W. L. G. Joerg, who, 

 until his death on Jan. 7, 1952, was a member of 

 the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names of the 

 United States Board on Geographic Names, and 

 over a long period made notable contributions to 

 the solution of problems of Antarctic cartography, 

 nomenclature and history. 



JOERG PLATEAU: an upland area which is 

 mainly ice covered, but through which protrude 

 the tops of numerous peaks and mountains, sit- 

 uated to the SW. of Gardner Inlet and W. of Orville 

 Escarpment at the base of Palmer Pen.; centering 

 in about 76°00'S., 67°30'W. Disc, and photo- 

 graphed from the air by the RARE 1946-48, under 

 Ronne, who named the plateau for W. L. G. Joerg. 



JOHANNESEN POINT: the SW. point of Main I. 

 in the Willis Is., off the W. end of South Georgia; 

 in 54°02'S., 38°17'W. This feature was named All 

 Johannesens Point, presumably by DI personnel 

 who charted South Georgia in the period 1926-30. 

 Following a survey of the island in 1951-52, the 

 SGS reported that this cumbersome name is seldom 

 used locally. On this basis, the Br-APC recom- 

 mended the present shortened form of the name. 

 Not adopted: All Johannesens Point. 



JOHANNES MULLER CRESTS: group of peaks 

 about 9,800 ft. in el., lying immediately S. of the 

 Filchner Mtns. at the N. edge of the polar plateau, 

 in New Schwabenland; in about 72°40'S., 8°10'E. 

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

 named for Johannes Miiller, navigation officer of 

 the Deutschland, exp. ship of the GerAE, 1911-12, 

 under Filchner. Not adopted: Johann Miiller 

 Crest. 



JOHANNSEN LOCH: cove about 0.5 mi. long, 

 lying 1 mi. N. of Ocean Hbr. along the N. coast of 

 South Georgia; in 54°19'S., 36°15'W. The name 

 appears on a chart based upon surveys by DI per- 

 sonnel during the period 1926-30, but may reflect 

 an earlier naming. 



Johann Miiller Crest: see Johannes Miiller Crests. 



JOHANSEN ISLANDS: group of small, low, 

 partly snow-free islands lying off the NW. coast of 

 Alexander I Island; in about 69°05'S., 72°07'W. 



Disc, from the U.S.S. Bear, on its initial approach 

 to establish the East Base of the USAS in 1940. 

 Named for Bendik Johansen, ice pilot for the USAS, 

 who served in a similar capacity on the Byrd Ant- 

 arctic Expeditions of 1928-30 and 1933-35. 



JOHN BOWMAN PEAK: peak about 1,900 ft. in 

 el., lying approximately in the center of the Alex- 

 andra Mtns. on Edward VII Pen.; in about 77°30'S., 

 153°28'W. Disc, by the ByrdAE in 1929, and 

 named for John McEntee Bowman, then Pres. of 

 the Bowman Biltmore Hotels Corporation, who 

 donated headquarters for the preparation of the 

 expedition. Not adopted: John Bowman Moun- 

 tain. 



John Carlsson Bucht: see Carlsson Bay. 



John Hayes Hammond Inlet; John Hays Ham- 

 mond Glacier: see Hammond Glacier. 



John Murray Gletscher: see Purvis Glacier. 



John Oliver LaGorce Mountains: see La Gorce 

 Mountains. 



JOHN PEAKS: prominent snow-covered peaks, 

 about 1,400 ft. in el., at the S. end of Powell I., in 

 the South Orkney Is.; in 60°43'S., 45°03'W. Prob- 

 ably first sighted by Capt. George Powell and Capt. 

 Nathaniel Palmer, who disc, these islands in De- 

 cember 1821. The peaks were charted in 1933 by 

 DI personnel on the Discovery II who named them 

 for D. D. John, member of the zoological staff of 

 the Discovery Committee. 



JOHN QUINCY ADAMS GLACIER: channel gla- 

 cier about 9 mi. wide and over 20 mi. long, flowing 

 WNW. from the continental ice overlying Budd 

 Coast to the E. side of the head of Vincennes Bay; 

 in about 66°50'S., 109°50'E. This area was en- 

 shrouded by heavy clouds in the USN Op. Hjp. 

 aerial photographs of February 1947, but it is be- 

 lieved that this glacier extends for a considerable 

 distance to the SE. and that it lies close N. of a 

 prominent, ice-covered E.-W. mountain range 

 which overlooks the head of Vincennes Bay. De- 

 lineated from aerial photographs taken by USN 

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

 John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the 

 United States, who initiated interest in a govern- 

 mental scientific exp. and the establishment of a 

 national observatory. Adams was later instru- 

 mental, while serving as Representative from Mas- 

 sachusetts, in gaining congressional authorization 

 of the USEE under Wilkes, 1838-42, and perpetuat- 

 ing the compilation and publication of the large 

 number of scientific reports based on the work of 

 the expedition. 



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