GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Lemaire Strait: see Lemaire Channel. 



LE MAY RANGE: mountain range in the SE. 

 part of Alexander I Island; in about 71°50'S., 

 70°00'W. Disc, by the RARE, 1947-48, under 

 Ronne, and named by him for Gen. Curtis Le 

 May, head of the Office of Research and Develop- 

 ment of the then USAAF,»which furnished equip- 

 ment for the expedition. Not adopted: Army 

 Range, U.S. Army Range. 



LENTON POINT: the SW. extremity of a small, 

 rocky peninsula in Clowes Bay on the S. side of 

 Signy I., South Orkney Is.; in 60°44'S., 45°37'W. 

 Roughly surveyed in 1933 by DI personnel, and 

 resurveyed in 1947 by the FIDS. Named in 1954 

 by the Br-APC for Ralph A. Lenton of the FIDS, 

 radio operator at Signy I. base in 1948, who helped 

 with the survey and biological work; subsequently 

 at Admiralty Bay in 1949, and then leader at 

 Deception I. in 1951, at Port Lockroy in 1952 and 

 at the Argentine Is. in 1954. 



LEON HEAD: prominent rocky headland, about 

 2,900 ft. in el., forming the S. side of the mouth 

 of Brogger Gl. and the SE. side of the entrance 

 to Undine South Hbr., on the S. coast of South 

 Georgia; in 54°33'S., 36°28'W. The headland was 

 roughly charted in 1819 by a Russ. exp. under 

 Bellingshausen. Named by the Br-APC, following 

 a survey by the SGS, 1951-52, after the Spanish 

 vessel Leon, which resighted South Georgia in 

 1756. 



LeONIE ISLANDS: group of small islands about 

 6 mi. N. of Jenny I., lying in the entrance to Ryder 

 Bay along the SE. side of Adelaide I.; in 67°36'S., 

 68°17'W. The FrAE under Charcot, 1908-10, disc, 

 these islands and gave the name Leonie to the 

 largest island in the group. The BGLE under 

 Rymill, 1934-37, extended the coverage of the name 

 to the entire group. Not adopted: Leonie Islands, 

 Leonie Islets. 



LfiONIE ISLET: largest and westernmost of the 

 Leonie Islands, about 1 mi. in diameter and about 

 1,500 ft. in el., lying in the entrance to Ryder Bay 

 off the SE. side of Adelaide I.; in 67°36'S., 68°22'W. 

 Disc, and named by the FrAE, 1908-10, under 

 Charcot. 



LEOPARD ISLAND: islet about 0.25 mi. W. of 

 the SW. end of Skua I., in the Argentine Is., off 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 65°15'S., 64°18'W. 

 Charted and named in 1935 by the BGLE under 

 Rymill. 



LEOPOLD AND ASTRID COAST: that portion 

 of the coast of Antarctica lying between about 

 81°00'E. and Cape Penck, in about 87°35'E. Disc. 



in January 1934 by a Nor. Exp. under Christensen, 

 and named for King Leopold and Queen Astrid 

 of Belgium. Not adopted : King Leopold and Queen 

 Astrid Coast, King Leopold and Queen Astrid Land, 

 Kong Leopold og Dronning Astrid Land [Nor- 

 wegian]. 



Leopold Coast: see Luitpold Coast. 



Le Poing: see Fist, The. 



LERCHENFELD GLACIER: the southerly of two 

 glaciers descending W. from the interior heights 

 of Luitpold Coast to Duke Ernst Bay; in about 

 77°50'S., 34°50'W. Disc, in January-February 1912 

 by the GerAE under Filchner, who named it for 

 Count Hugo von und zu Lerchenfeld-Kofering, sup- 

 porter of the expedition. Not adopted: Graf Lerch- 

 enfeld Gletscher [German]. 



LEROUX BAY: boot-shaped bay, about 7 mi. 

 long in a NW.-SE. direction, and averaging about 

 5 mi. wide, between Nufiez Pt. and the narrow pen- 

 insula surmounted by Magnier Peaks, along the W. 

 coast of Palmer Pen.; in 65°36'S., 64°21'W. Disc, 

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

 him for Commander Leroux, Argentine Navy. This 

 bay was more accurately delineated by the BGLE 

 under Rymill in 1935. 



LESKOV ISLAND: island less than 1 mi. in ex- 

 tent, lying about 30 mi. W. of Visokoi I., in the 

 South Sandwich Is.; in 56°40'S., 28°10'W. Disc, 

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

 named it for the third lieutenant on the exp. ship 

 Vostok. 



LESSER MACKELLAR ISLET: islet immediately 

 NE. of Greater Mackellar Islet in the Mackellar 

 Islets group, lying in the center of Commonwealth 

 Bay, along George V Coast; in about 66°58'S., 

 142°39'E. Disc, and named by the AAE under 

 Mawson, 1911-14. The name is indicative of the 

 size of the feature in relation to Greater Mackellar 

 Islet. 



LEVERETT GLACIER: slow-moving glacier 

 about 10 mi. wide and over 20 mi. long, flowing in 

 a WNW. direction between the Harold Byrd and 

 Tapley Mountains and terminating at the head 

 of Ross Ice Shelf close E. of Robert Scott Gl.; 

 in about 85°30'S., 150°00'W. Disc, in December 

 1929 by the ByrdAE geological party under Laur- 

 ence Gould, and named by him for Frank Leverett, 

 eminent geologist at the Univ. of Michigan and 

 authority on glacial geology of the central United 

 States. 



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