GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Pen.; in 63°52'S., 59°22'W. Charted in 1948 by 

 the FIDS and named for S. St. C. McNeile, surveyor 

 at the FIDS Hope Bay base in 1948-49. 



M'Cormik, Cape: see McCormick, Cape. 



McVitie, Cape: see Hatree, Cape. 



MEADE ISLANDS: small group of islets lying 

 in the N. entrance to McFarlane Str., in the South 

 Shetland Is.; in 62°26'S., 60°07'W. Charted and 

 named in 1935 by DI personnel on the Discovery II. 



MEARES CLIFF: steep cliflf, about 880 ft. in el., 

 lying about 2 mi. E. of Ponting Cliff, on the N. 

 coast of Victoria Land; in about 71°13'S., 168°33'E. 

 First charted in 1911 by the Northern Party of the 

 BrAE under Scott, 1910-13, and named for Cecil 

 H. Meares who had charge of the dogs on this ex- 

 pedition. 



MECHANICS BAY: bay, which is about 1 mi. 

 wide and recedes 0.5 mi., lying immediately E. of 

 Saddle Pt. on the N. coast of Heard I.; in 53°01'S., 

 73°31'E. Named by American sealers after the 

 schooner Mechanic, a tender to the Corinthian in 

 Capt. Erasmus Darwin Rogers' sealing fleet which 

 landed at Heard I. in 1855. The name appears on 

 a chart by the Br. exp. under Nares, which visited 

 the island in the Challenger in 1874 and utilized 

 the names then in use by the sealers. 



MEEK CHANNEL: channel about 0.75 mi. long 

 and 0.1 mi. wide, separating Galindez I. from 

 Grotto I. and the Corner Is., in the Argentine Is., 

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

 64°15'W. Charted in 1935 by the BGLE under Ry- 

 mill, and named for William McC. Meek, marine 

 architect and surveyor, who was of assistance in 

 preparing the exp. ship Penola for the voyage. 



MEFJELL MOUNTAIN: mountain standing be- 

 tween Mt. Walnum and Mt. Bergersen in the cen- 

 tral part of the S0r Rondane Mtns., inland from 

 Princess Ragnhild Coast; in about 72°10'S., 

 24°00'E. Disc, and photographed from the air by 

 a Nor. exp. under Christensen on February 6, 1937 

 and named Mefjell (middle mountain) because of 

 its central location in the mountain group. Not 

 adopted: Mefjell [Norwegian], Middle Mountain. 



MEGALESTRIS HILL: rock hill, about 110 ft. in 

 el., in the S. part of Petermann I., off the W. coast 

 of Palmer Pen.; in 65°11'S., 64°11'W. Charted and 

 named by the FrAE under Charcot, 1908-10. 

 Megalestris is an obsolete name for the South 

 Polar skua. 



MEIER, CAPE : cape forming the W. side of the 

 entrance to Norway Bight, on the S. side of Coro- 

 nation I., in the South Orkney Is.; in 60°39'S., 

 45°54'W. The cape appears named on a chart by 

 Capt. Better S0rlle, Norwegian whaler who made a 

 running survey of the South Orkney Islands in 

 1912-13. 



MEIKLEJOHN GLACIER: glacier, about 11 mi. 

 long and 4 mi. wide, flowing SW. from the Dyer 

 Plateau of Palmer Pen. to George VI Sound, imme- 

 diately S. of Moore Pt.; in 70°32'S., 67°44'W. In 

 its lower reaches the S. side of this glacier merges 

 with Millett Gl. First surveyed in 1936 by the 

 BGLE under Rymill, and later named for Ian F. 

 Meiklejohn, radio operator of the BGLE, 1934-37. 



MEINARDUS GLACIER: extensive glacier flow- 

 ing in an ENE. direction to a point immediately E. 

 of Mt. Barkow where it is joined from the NW. by 

 Haines Gl., and then E. to enter New Bedford Inlet 

 close W. of Court Nunatak, on the E. coast of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 73°22'S., 61°52'W. Disc, and pho- 

 tographed from the air in December 1940 by the 

 USAS. During 1947 it was photographed from the 

 air by the RARE under Ronne, who in conjunction 

 with the FIDS charted it from the ground. Named 

 by the FIDS for Wilhelm Meinardus, German 

 meteorologist and climatologist and author of 

 many publications including the meteorological 

 results of the GerAE under Grygalski, 1901-3. 



MEKAMMEN CREST: mountain about 3,900 ft. 

 in el., lying close SE. of Nordkammen Crest and ex- 

 tending 5 mi. in a N.-S. direction, in the Masson 

 Range of the Framnes Mtns. on Mac-Robertson 

 Coast; in about 67°50'S., 62°55'E. It was mapped 

 and named by Norwegian cartographers from aerial 

 photographs taken by a Nor. exp. under Christen- 

 sen in January 1937. The name is descriptive, 

 meaning "middle comb." Not adopted: Mekam- 

 men [Norwegian] , Middle Crest. 



MELBA PENINSULA: ice-covered peninsula be- 

 tween Reid Gl. and the Bay of Winds, fronting on 

 Shackleton Ice Shelf, on Queen Mary Coast; in 

 about 66°35'S., 98°10'E. Disc, by the AAE under 

 Mawson, 1911-14, who named it for Dame Nellie 

 Melba, of Melbourne, a patron of the expedition. 



MELBOURNE, MOUNT: conspicuous volcanic 

 cone, about 8,500 ft. in el., back of Cape Washing- 

 ton, and between Terra Nova Bay and Wood Bay, in 

 Victoria Land; in about 74°25'S., 164°50'E. Disc, 

 in January 1841 by a Br. exp. under Ross, who 

 named it for Lord Viscount Melbourne, British 

 Prime Minister when the exp. was being planned. 



Melbourne Glacier: see Campbell Glacier. 



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