GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



and named by him, probably for Louis Lumiere, 

 leader in photographic research and development 

 in France at that time. Not adopted: Lumiere 

 Peak. 



LUMUS REEF: reef about 7 mi. WNW. of 

 Betbeder Islets and some 29 mi. W. of Cape Tuxen, 

 lying off the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 65°14'S., 

 65°18'W. Disc, and named by the BGLE under 

 Rymill, 1934-37. 



LUPA, MOUNT: fiat- topped, ice-covered moun- 

 tain, more than 5,500 ft. in el., standing between 

 Romulus Gl. and Martin Gl. close ESE. of Black 

 Thumb Mtn. and 5 mi. E. of the Head of Rymill 

 Bay, on the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 68°27'S., 

 66°43'W. First roughly surveyed in 1936 by the 

 BGLE under Rymill. Resurveyed in 1948-49 by 

 the FIDS who applied the name. This mountain 

 lies near the heads of Romulus and Remus Gla- 

 ciers, and the name derives from the mythological 

 story of the she-wolf which fed these twins after 

 they had been thrown into the Tiber. 



Lurdbee Channel: see Lurabee Glacier. 



LURABEE GLACIER: glacier flowing NE. be- 

 tween Scripps Ridge and Finley Ridge with Cape 

 Walcott at its N. portal, on the E. coast of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 69°12'S., 63°35'W. This glacier, which is 

 a distributary of Bingham Gl., was disc, by Sir 

 Hubert Wilkins on Dec. 20, 1928 on his pioneer 

 Antarctic flight. He named it Lurabee Channel 

 for Lurabee Shreck of San Francisco, in recog- 

 nition of her aid in procuring equipment for this 

 and his earlier Arctic flight, and for her editorial 

 assistance on his book Flying the Arctic. Not 

 adopted: Lurabee Channel. 



LUSSICH COVE: cove at the SE. side of Martel 

 Inlet, in Admiralty Bay, King George I., in the 

 South Shetland Is.; in 62°05'S., 58°21'W. Charted 

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

 by him for Antonio Lussich of Montevideo, who 

 was of assistance to the expedition. 



Luttich Island: see Liege Island. 



LtJTZOW-HOLM BAY: large bay, about 130 mi. 

 wide, lying between Riiser-Larsen Pen. and the 

 W. end of Prince Olav Coast; centering near 

 68°50'S., 37°30'E. Disc, by a Nor. exp. under 

 Isachsen and Riiser-Larsen, 1930-31, in two aerial 

 flights on Feb. 21 and 23, 1931. Named by Bjarne 

 Aagaard in 1934 for Cdr. Finn Liitzow-Holm, pilot 

 with the Nor. exp. under Riiser-Larsen in 1929-30. 



LUZ RANGE: prominent N.-S. trending range 

 about 25 mi. long and 9,200 ft. in el., in the Miihlig- 

 Hofmann Mtns., projecting from the intermediate 



icecap level about 15 mi. N. of the edge of the 

 polar plateau in New Schwabenland; in about 

 72°00'S., 5°50'E. Disc, by the GerAE under 

 Filchner, 1938-39, and named for the commercial 

 director of the German Lufthansa Corporation. 



LYALL ISLANDS: group of small islands lying 

 NW. of Cape Moore, off the N. coast of Victoria 

 Land; in about 70°45'S., 167°20'E. Disc, in 

 1841 by a Br. exp. under Ross, and named for David 

 Lyall, asst. surgeon on the exp. ship Terror. 



LYELL GLACIER: glacier flowing in a N. di- 

 rection to a small bay close E. of Mercer Bay, at 

 the SW. end of Cumberland West Bay, South 

 Georgia; in 54°17'S., 36°38'W. Disc, by the 

 SwedAE, 1901-4, under Nordenskjold, who named 

 it for Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), eminent 

 British geologist. 



LYNCH ISLET: islet lying 1.5 mi. E. of Cape 

 Vik in the E. part of Marshall Bay, off the S. coast 

 of Coronation I. in the South Orkney Is.; in 

 60°40'S., 45°38'W. It was roughly charted in 

 1912-13 by Better S0rlle, a Norwegian whaling 

 captain, and was surveyed in 1933 by DI per- 

 sonnel. Resurveyed in 1948-49 by the FIDS and 

 named by them for Thomas B. Lynch, an American 

 sealer who visited the South Orkney Is. in the 

 schooner Express in 1880. 



LYSTAD BAY: bay about 3 mi. wide which in- 

 dents the W. side of Horseshoe I., in the NE. part 

 of Marguerite Bay; in 67°51'S., 67°17'W. First 

 surveyed in 1936-37 by the BGLE under RymiU. 

 The bay was visited by the U.S. M.S. North Star 

 and U.S.S. Bear of the USAS in 1940. The name 

 was proposed by the US-ACAN for Capt. Isak 

 Lystad of the North Star. Not adopted : Horseshoe 

 Bay, Horseshoe Island Cove. 



LYTTELTON, CAPE: bold cape which forms the 

 S. side of the entrance to Shackleton Inlet, along 

 the W. edge of Ross Ice Shelf; in about 82°35'S., 

 164°30'E. Disc, in December 1902 by the BrNAE 

 under Scott. The exp. ship Discovery started on 

 the last lap of its journey S. from Lyttelton, New 

 Zealand, where very generous assistance was given 

 the expedition. Not adopted: Cape Lyttleton. 



LYTTELTON RIDGE: dark, jagged ridge about 

 1,400 ft. in el., extending for about 5 mi. in a SSE. 

 direction along the W. side of Churchill Pen., on 

 the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 66°22'S., 63°08'W. 

 Charted in 1947 by the FIDS, who named it for 

 Rt. Hon. Oliver Lyttelton, M. P., British Minister 

 of Production and member of the War Cabinet. 

 Photographed from the air during 1947 by the 

 RARE under Ronne. Not adopted: Antarctic 

 Tetons. 



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