GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



named it for Charles and Eugene Lagrange, 

 staunch supporters of the expedition. 



LAGRELIUS POINT: low, ice-free point on the 

 NW. coast of James Ross I., 2 mi. S. of Carlson I.; 

 in 63°55'S., 58°17'W. Disc, and first surveyed in 

 1903 by the SwedAE under Nordenskjold, who 

 named it Cape Lagrelius after Axel Lagrelius of 

 Stockholm, who contributed toward the cost of 

 the expedition. It was resurveyed by the FIDS 

 in 1952. Point is considered a more suitable de- 

 scriptive term for this feature than cape. Not 

 adopted: Cape Lagrelius. 



Lahille, Pointe: see Lahille Island. 



LAHILLE ISLAND: island about 3 mi. long and 

 1 mi. wide, lying about 2 mi. W. of Nuiiez Pt., off 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 65°33'S., 64°23'W. 

 Disc, by the FrAE under Charcot, 1903-5, and 

 charted as a point on the coast in honor of Fer- 

 nando Lahille, noted Argentine naturalist. The 

 FrAE under Charcot, 1908-10, determined the 

 feature's insularity. Not adopted: Pointe Lahille 

 [French] . 



LAINEZ, CAPE: steep, rocky promontory about 

 3,000 ft. in el., forming the W. end of Pourquoi 

 Pas I., oflf the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 67°42'S., 

 67°48'W. Disc, by the FrAE under Charcot, 

 1908-10, and named for Manuel Lainez, Senator 

 of the Argentine Republic and founder of the 

 newspaper. El Diario. 



LAJARTE ISLANDS: group of islands fringing 

 the N. coast of Anvers I., close E. of Cape Gron- 

 land, in the Palmer Arch.; in 64°16'S., 63°24'W. 

 Disc, by a German exp. under Dallmann, 1873-74. 

 Charted by the FrAE, 1903-5, under Charcot, and 

 named by him for Capt. Dufaure de Lajarte, French 

 Navy. Not adopted: Dufaure de Lajarte Islands, 

 Lajarte Islets. 



LALLEMAND FJORD: bay about 30 mi. long, 

 in a N.-S. direction, and about 12 mi. wide at its 

 entrance between Cape Rey and Charles-Roux I., 

 lying close SW. of Marin Darbel Bay along the 

 W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 67°05'S., 66°45'W. 

 Disc, by the FrAE, 1908-10, under Charcot, who 

 named it for Charles Lallemand, French scientist 

 and member of the Bureau des Longitudes. Not 

 adopted: Lallemand Bay, Lattemand Bay. 



LAMB, CAPE: cape forming the SW. end of 

 Vega I., lying S. of the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 63°54'S., 57°37'W. Disc, by the SwedAE, 1901-4, 

 undejf Nordenskjold. Recharted in 1945 by the 

 FIDS, who named it for I. M. Lamb, botanist on 

 the FIDS staff at Hope Bay in 1945. 



LAMBDA ISLAND: island, about 1 mi. long, 

 which lies immediately NW. of Delta I. in the 

 Melchior Is., Palmer Arch.; in 64°18'S., 63°00'W. 

 This island, the largest feature in the NW. part 

 of the island group, was first roughly charted and 

 named "He Sourrieu" by the FrAE under Charcot, 

 1903-5, but that name has not survived in usage. 

 The name Lambda, derived from the 11th letter 

 of the Greek alphabet, was probably given by DI 

 personnel who roughly surveyed the island in 



1927. The island was surveyed by Argentine ex- 

 peditions in 1942, 1943 and 1948. Not adopted: 

 He Sourrieu [French], Isla Primero de Mayo 

 [Spanish] . 



LAMB POINT: low, ice-covered point forming 

 the S. side of the entrance to Howkins Inlet, on 

 the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 73°41'S., 60°48'W. 

 Disc, and photographed from the air in Decem- 

 ber 1940 by the USAS. During 1947 it was pho- 

 tographed from the air by the RARE Ronne, who 

 in conjunction with the FIDS charted it from 

 the ground. Named by the FIDS for H. H. Lamb, 

 meteorologist on the British whale factory ship 

 Balaena in Antarctic waters in 1946-47, who pre- 

 pared daily forecasts for the whaling fleet on the 

 basis of FIDS and other meteorological reports. 



LAMINA PEAK: prominent pyramid-shaped 

 peak, about 4,200 ft. in el., surmounting a strati- 

 fied ridge which curves down from Mt. Edred north- 

 eastward toward George VI Sound. The peak 

 stands 4.5 mi. inland from the E. coast of Alex- 

 ander I Island at the S. limit of the Douglas 

 Range; in 70°32'S., 68°45'W. This peak was first 

 photographed from the air on Nov. 23, 1935 by 

 Lincoln Ellsworth, and was mapped from these 

 photographs by W. L. G. Joerg. It was roughly 

 surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE under Rymill, and 

 resurveyed in 1949 by the FIDS. So named by 

 FIDS because of the marked horizontal stratifica- 

 tion of the rocks of this peak. 



LAMMERS GLACIER: large glacier flowing in 

 an E. direction and merging with several other 

 large glaciers close W. of Mobiloil Inlet, on the E. 

 coast of Palmer Pen.; in about 68°38'S., 66°25'W. 

 This glacier appears indistinctly in an aerial pho- 

 tograph taken by Sir Hubert Wilkins on Dec. 20, 



1928, but shows more clearly in aerial photo- 

 graphs taken by a U.S. exp. under Ellsworth in 

 1935 and the USAS in 1940. It was resighted in 

 1947 by the RARE under Ronne, who named it 

 for Lester Lammers, contributor of nine grown 

 husky dogs and four puppies to the expedition. 



Lamplugh Bay: see Lamplugh Inlet. 



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