GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Mcelroy, mount; mountain about 6,000 ft. 

 in el. standing NW. of Nantucket Inlet, on the E. 

 coast of Palmer Pen., in about 74°12'S., 63°04'W. 

 Disc, by the RARE, 1947-48, under Ronne who 

 named it for T. P. McElroy, of Boston, who con- 

 tributed the radio and communication instruments 

 for the expedition. 



McFARLANE STRAIT: strait lying between 

 Greenwich and Livingston Islands, in the South 

 Shetland Is.; in 62°31'S., 59°58'W. The name ap- 

 pears on an 1822 chart by Capt. George Powell, a 

 British sealer, and is now well established in inter- 

 national usage. Not adopted: Detroit de Mac- 

 Ferlane [French], Duffs Straits, McFarlane's 

 Strait, Yankee Sound. 



Mcintosh Cove: see Mackintosh Cove. 



McINTYRE, MOUNT: a group of low connecting 

 ridges extending in an E.-W. direction, with rock 

 walls facing generally N., protruding above the 

 ice of the south polar plateau to about 9,700 ft. in 

 el., standing about 9 mi. S. of Mt. Weaver and S. 

 of the head of Robert Scott Gl.; in about 87°08'S., 

 152°05'W. Disc, in December 1934 by the ByrdAE 

 geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named 

 by Byrd for Marvin H. Mclntyre, secretary to the 

 President of the United States at that time. 



McKASKLE HILLS: group of moderately low, 

 rocky hills, about 1.5 mi. long and 1 mi. wide, 

 standing between Mistichelli Hills and Rogers Gl. 

 on Ingrid Christensen Coast; in about 70°01'S., 

 72°15'E. Delineated in 1952 by John H. Roscoe 

 from aerial photographs taken by USN Op. Hjp. in 

 March 1947, and named by him for H. A. McKaskle, 

 air crewman on USN Op. Hjp. photographic flights 

 in this area and other coastal areas between 14° 

 and 164°, east longitude. 



McKERCHER, MOUNT: mountain rising to 

 about 7,000 ft. in el., which is marked by promi- 

 nent outliers on its NW. and NE. sides, standing 

 at the E. side of Robert Scott Gl. opposite the 

 junction of Bartlett Gl., in the Queen Maud Range; 

 in about 86°07'S., 149°45'W. Disc, in December 

 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin 

 Blackburn, and named for Miss Hazel McKercher, 

 secretary to R. Adm. Byrd during the period of this 

 expedition. 



McKinley, Mount: see Grace McKinley, Mount. 



McLEAN NUNATAKS: group of three nunataks 

 at the W. side of the head of Mertz Gl., on the 

 George V Coast; in about 67°49'S., 143°56'E. Disc, 

 in 1912 by the AAE under Mawson, and named for 

 Archie L. McLean, medical officer and bacteriologist 

 with the expedition. 



McLENNAN MOUNT: mountain about 5,800 ft. 

 in el., standing at the N. side of Taylor Glacier Dry 

 Valley and forming the NE. wall of Canada GL, in 

 Victoria Land; in about 77°35'S., 162°49'E. 

 Charted and named by the BrAE, 1910-13, under 

 Scott. 



McLEOD GLACIER: glacier, about 1 mi. long, 

 flowing in a SSE. direction into Clowes Bay on the 

 S. side of Signy I., South Orkney Is.; in 60°44'S., 

 45°38'W. Named by the Br-APC in 1954 for Mi- 

 chael McLeod, following a survey by the FIDS in 

 1947. On Dec. 12, 1821, the cutter Beaufoy under 

 Michael McLeod sailed to a position at least 60 mi. 

 W. of the South Orkney Is., where a chart annota- 

 tion indicates that land was sighted, probably 

 Coronation Island. 



McLEOD HILL: rounded, ice-covered hill, about 

 5,900 ft. in el., which forms a prominent landmark 

 1 mi. E. of the head of Northeast Gl., on the W. 

 side of Palmer Pen.; in 68°05'S., 66°30'W. First 

 roughly surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE, and re- 

 surveyed by the USAS, 1939-41. It was resurveyed 

 in 1946 by the FIDS and named for Kenneth A. 

 McLeod, FIDS meteorological observer who, during 

 July-December 1947, occupied with a member of 

 the RARE the plateau meteorological station 1 mi. 

 E. of this hill. Not adopted: Glacier Dome, The 

 Dome. 



McMURDO SOUND: a sound at the junction of 

 the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf, lying between 

 Ross I. and Victoria Land; in about 77°30'S., 

 165°00'E. Disc, in February 1841 by a Br. exp. 

 under Ross, who named it for Lt. Archibald Mc- 

 Murdo of the Terror, one of the exp. ships. Not 

 adopted: McMurdo Strait. 



McMurdo Strait: see McMurdo Sound. 



McNAB, CAPE: cape, about 1,160 ft. in el., form- 

 ing the S. end of Buckle I., in the Balleny Is.; in 

 about 66°49'S., 163°10'E. Named for John McNab, 

 2d mate of the schooner Eliza Scott, who made a 

 sketch of the Balleny Is. when they were disc, in 

 1839. Not adopted : Cape Macnab. 



McNAMARA ISLAND: the more northern of the 

 two Fletcher Is., lying near the W. end of Bellings- 

 hausen Sea, about 40 mi. E. of Cape Palmer, off 

 Eights Coast; in about 71°45'S., 94°45'W. Disc, 

 by the USAS in a flight from the Bear on Feb. 27, 

 1940. Named by R. Adm. Byrd for John McNa- 

 mara, boatswain on the Jacob Ruppert of the 

 ByrdAE, 1933-35. 



McNEILE GLACIER: narrow glacier flowing 

 northward to the SE. side of Almond Pt. where it 

 enters Charcot Bay, on the NW. coast of Palmer 



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