GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



in about 76°30'S., 70°45'W. Disc, by the RARE 

 under Ronne, 1947-48, who named these moun- 

 tains for Lowell Thomas, a supporter of the ex- 

 pedition. 



Lower Ferrar Glacier: see Ferrar Glacier. 



LOW HEAD, CAPE: cape about 1.75 mi. SSW. 

 of Cape Lions Rump, the W. side of the entrance 

 to King George Bay, on King George I., in the 

 South Shetland Is.; in 62°10'S., 58°08'W. Charted 

 and named during 1937 by DI personnel on the 

 Discovery II. 



LOW ISLAND: low island about 9 mi. long and 

 about 5 mi. wide, lying about 17 mi. SSE. of Smith 

 I., in the South Shetland Is.; in 63°17'S., 62°09'W. 

 So named because of its low elevation. This island 

 was known to sealers as early as 1820, and the 

 name Low has been well established in interna- 

 tional usage for over 100 years. Not adopted: 

 Jameson Island, Jamesons Island. 



LOW POINT: low point marking the NW. ex- 

 tremity of Vindication I., South Sandwich Is.; in 

 57°04'S., 26°45'W. The point was named by DI 

 personnel following their survey in 1930. 



Low Point: see Daisy Point; Kikhaylov Point; 

 Pacific Point. 



LOW ROCK: low rock surrounded by foul 

 ground, lying at the E. side of the S. entrance 

 to Fildes Str., about 1 mi. off the S. end of King 

 George I., in the South Shetland Is.; in 62°16'S., 

 58°37'W. An unnamed rock in essentially this 

 position appears on a chart by David Ferguson, 

 Scottish geologist aboard the whaler Hanka in 

 these waters in 1913-14. Low Rock was accurately 

 charted by DI personnel on the Discovery II in 

 1935 and 1937. 



Low Rock: see Bucentaur Rock. 



LOW ROCK POINT: point about 4 mi. SW. of 

 Cape North, near the W. end of the N. coast of 

 South Georgia; in 53°59'S., 37°50'W. Charted by 

 DI personnel in 1926-30, and so named because a 

 low rock lies off the point. 



LUBBOCK, MOUNT: high peak standing E. of 

 Mt. Phillips in northern Victoria Land; in about 

 73°08'S., 167°30'E. Disc, in January 1841 by a 

 Br. exp. under Ross, who named it for Sir John 

 Lubbock, treasurer of the Royal Society. 



LUCAS GLACIER: glacier flowing in a N. direc- 

 tion to the S. side of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia, 

 close W. of Luck Pt.; in 54°04'S., 37°19'W. Charted 

 in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, Amer- 



ican naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, who named 

 it for Frederic A. Lucas, Dir. of the American 

 Museum of Natural History at that time. 



LUCK POINT: point at the W. side of the en- 

 trance to Sea Leopard Fjord, in the Bay of Isles, 

 South Georgia; in 54°03'S., 37°17'W. The name 

 appears to have been first used by DI personnel 

 who charted this point during 1929-30. 



Lucy, Mount: see Henry Lucy, Mount. 



Luigi de Savoie, Pic: see Luigi di Savoia Peak. 



LUIGI DI SAVOIA PEAK: peak about 4,600 ft. 

 in el., at the NE. end of Sierra Du Fief, a mountain 

 range in the SW. part of Wiencke I., in the Palmer 

 Arch.; in 64°51'S., 63°26'W. Disc, by the BelgAE 

 under De Gerlache in 1898, and scaled by mem- 

 bers of the FrAE under Charcot, 1903-5. Named 

 by Charcot for Luigi di Savoia, Duke of the 

 Abruzzi. Not adopted: Pic Luigi de Savoie 

 [French] . 



LUISA BAY: small bay lying between Cape 

 Vakop and Mt. Skittle on the N. coast of South 

 Georgia; in 54°23'S., 36°11'W. Surveyed by the 

 SGS, 1951-52, and named by the Br-APC after 

 the Luisa, one of the vessels of the Compafiia Ar- 

 gentina de Pesca which participated in establish- 

 ing the first permanent whaling station at 

 Grytviken, South Georgia, in 1904; now a hulk in 

 King Edward Cove. 



LUITPOLD COAST : that portion of the coast of 

 Coats Land extending from about 29°W. to 37°W., 

 marked by an unbroken ice cliff from 30 to 100 

 ft. in el. Disc, by the GerAE under Filchner, 

 1911-12, and named for Prince Regent Luitpold 

 of Bavaria. Not adopted: Leopold Coast, Luitpold 

 Land, Prince-Regent Luitpold Land, Prinzregent 

 Luitpold Land [German] . 



Luitpold Land: see Luitpold Coast. 



LUKE GLACIER: glacier, more than 7 mi. long, 

 flowing NW. into the SE. corner of Leroux Bay, 

 on the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 65°41'S., 

 64°08'W. This glacier was first sighted and 

 roughly surveyed in 1909 by the FrAE under Char- 

 cot. It was resurveyed in 1935-36 by the BGLE 

 under Rymill, and later named for George Lawson 

 Johnston, 1st Baron Luke of Pavenham, Chairman 

 of Messrs. Bovril Ltd., who contributed toward 

 the cost of the BGLE, 1934-37. 



LUMIfeRE PEAK: peak about 3,400 ft. in el., at 

 the SE. end of the peninsula terminating in Cape 

 Tuxen, on the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 65°19'S., 

 64°02'W. Disc, by the FrAE under Charcot, 1903-5, 



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