GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



KADE POINT: point which forms the N. side 

 of the entrance to Wilson Hbr., on the S. coast of 

 South Georgia; in 54°06'S., 37°47'W. Kade Point 

 is an old established name dating back to about 

 1912. Not adopted : Rade Point. 



KAINAN BAY: bay about 1 mi. wide and 8 mi. 

 long, indenting the Ross Ice Shelf about 30 mi. NE. 

 of the Bay of Whales; in about 78°14'S., 161°55'W. 

 Disc, in January 1902 by the BrNAE under Scott, 

 but it was not named until the Japanese exp. under 

 Shirase, in the exp. ship Hainan Maru, landed 

 there in January 1912. Little America V, the 

 main base of USN Operation Deepfreeze, 1955-56, 

 was established at this site in late December 1955. 

 Not adopted: Helen Washington Bay. 



KAISER, CAPE: northern extremity of a group 

 of small islands lying close off the E. side of Bra- 

 bant I., about 6 mi. WSW. of the S. end of Two 

 Hummock I., in Palmer Arch.; in 64°12'S., 61°52'W. 

 Disc, by the BelgAE, 1897-99, under De Gerlache, 

 and named by him for a supporter of the expe- 

 dition. 



Kaiser Wilhelm II Coast; Kaiser Wilhelm II 

 Land: see Wilhelm II Coast. 



Kaiser Wilhelm II Islands; Kaiser Wilhelm 

 Inseln: see Dannebrog Islands. 



KaWer-Berg: see Calf Head. 



KANIN POINT: rocky point, lying 2 ml. WSW. 

 of Kelp Pt. on the S. side of Husvik Hbr., in Strom- 

 ness Bay, South Georgia; in 54°11'S., 36°42'W. 

 The descriptive name Rocky Point was given for 

 this feature, probably by DI personnel who surveyed 

 Husvik Hbr. in 1928. This name is used elsewhere 

 in the Antarctic. The SGS, 1951-52, reported that 

 this feature is known at the Husvik whaling station 

 as Kanin Point (the word Kanin meaning rabbit) . 

 This name presumably arose from one of several 

 attempts made since 1872 to introduce rabbits into 

 the island. The name Kanin Point is approved on 

 the basis of local usage. Not adopted: Rocky 

 Point. 



KAPPA ISLAND: islet, nearly 0.5 mi. long, lying 

 immediately S. of Beta I. and close E. of Theta Its. 

 in 'the Melchior Is., Palmer Arch.; in 64°19'S., 

 63°00'W. The name Kappa, derived from the 

 tenth letter of the Greek alphabet, probably was 

 given by DI personnel who roughly surveyed the 

 islet in 1927. The islet was surveyed by Argentine 

 expeditions in 1942, 1943 and 1948. Not adopted: 

 Isla Donati [Spanish]. 



Kap Parjadine: see Paryadin, Cape. 



KARLSEN ROCK: submerged rock about 10.5 

 mi. NNW. of Penguin Pt., the NW. point of Coro- 

 nation I., in the South Orkney Is.; in 60°21'S., 

 46°00'W. The rock appears charted and named 

 on a map by Petter S0rlle, a Norwegian whaler 

 who made a running survey of the South Orkney 

 Is. in 1912-13. Not adopted: Karlsens Rocks, Kar- 

 sten Rock. 



Karlsens Rocks; Karsten Rock: see Karlsen Rock. 



KARPF POINT: turret-shaped headland sur- 

 mounting the plateau escarpment along the E. 

 coast of Palmer Pen., standing at the head of Mill 

 Inlet; in 66°54'S., 64°30'W. Charted by the FIDS 

 and photographed from the air by the RARE in 

 1947. Named by the FIDS for Alois Karpf, librar- 

 ian of the Kaiserliche and Kdnigliche Geo- 

 graphische Gesellschaft in Vienna and joint author 

 of a polar bibliography. 



KAR PLATEAU: small plateau which is snow 

 covered except for an almost vertical rock scarp 

 marking its S. side. The plateau rises gently 

 toward the NW. to the heights of Mt. Marston, sit- 

 uated at the W. side of Granite Hbr. in Victoria 

 Land; in about 76°56'S., 162°25'E. Charted and 

 named by the BrAE, 1910-13, under Scott. "Kar" 

 is a Turkish word meaning snow. 



Kasco Glacier: see Waverly Glacier. 



Kastor Nunatak: see Castor Nunatak. 



KATER, CAPE: cape fringed by rocks, marking 

 the W. side of the entrance to Charcot Bay, on the 

 W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 63°45'S., 59°40'W. 

 This coast was sketched by a Br. exp., 1828-31, 

 under Foster, who named a cape in this region 

 after Capt. Henry Kater, a member of the com- 

 mittee which planned the exp. This region was 

 more fully mapped by the SwedAE, 1901-4, under 

 Nordenskjold, who gave the name Cape Gunnar 

 to this cape. The name Kater perpetuates the 

 earlier naming. Not adopted: Cape Gunnar. 



Katherine Paine, Mount: see Paine, Mount. 



KATHLEEN, MOUNT: mountain in the Com- 

 monwealth Range, standing NE. of Mt. Robert 

 Scott and overlooking the E. side of Beardmore Gl. 

 at its junction with Ross Ice Shelf; in about 

 83°40'S., 174°40'E. Disc, by the BrAE, 1907-9, 

 under Shackleton, who probably named it for his 

 sister. Not adopted: Mount Catherine. 



Kats Pillar: see Petes Pillar. 



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