GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



with the USN Op. Wml. parties which established 

 astronomical control along Wilhelm II, Knox and 

 Budd Coasts during January-February 1948. 



MERSEY SPIT: a spit on the S. coast of King 

 George I., about 0.5 mi. N. of Penguin I., in the 

 South Shetland Is.; in 62°04'S., 57°55'W. Charted 

 and named during 1937 by DI personnel on the 

 Discovery II. 



MERTON PASSAGE: narrow passage between 

 Right Whale Rocks and a small rock about 0.1 

 mi. N. of Bariff Pt., at the E. side of the entrance 

 to Cumberland Bay, South Georgia; in 54°14'S., 

 36°24'W. The name Merton, the former name for 

 Right Whale Rocks, was applied to this passage 

 by C personnel as a result of surveys during the 

 period 1926-30. 



Merton Rocks: see Right Whale Rocks. 



MERTZ GLACIER : valley glacier averaging over 

 20 mi. in width and flowing about 40 mi. from the 

 inland plateau to the sea, lying W. of Ninnis Gl. 

 on George V Coast; in about 67°30'S., 144°45'E. 

 Disc, by the AAE under Mawson, 1911-14, who 

 named it for Xavier Mertz, who perished on Jan. 

 7, 1913, while on a sledging journey about 100 mi. 

 SE. of Main Base. 



MERTZ GLACIER TONGUE: glacier tongue 

 about 45 mi. long and 20 mi. wide, forming the 

 seaward extension of Mertz Glacier along George 

 V Coast; in about 67°10'S., 145°30'E. Disc, and 

 named by the AAE, 1911-14, under Mawson. 

 Named after Mertz Glacier. Not adopted: Mertz 

 Glacier Ice Tongue. 



MERZ PENINSULA: irregular, ice-covered pen- 

 insula, about 15 mi. long in an E.-W. direction 

 and averaging 25 mi. wide, projecting from the E. 

 coast of Palmer Pen.; in 72°15'S., 61°05'W. Disc, 

 and photographed 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 Alfred Merz, 

 1880-1925, noted German oceanographer and orig- 

 inal leader of the Ger. exp. in the Meteor, 1925-26. 



METHUEN COVE : cove between Cape Anderson 

 and Cape Whitson, along the S. coast of Laurie I., 

 in the South Orkney Is.; in 60°46'S., 44°33'W. 

 Charted by the ScotNAE under Bruce, 1902-4, 

 who named it for H. Methuen, accountant of the 

 expedition. 



MICA ISLETS: group of about four mainly ice- 

 covered islets lying 7 mi. W. of Mt. Guernsey and 

 6 mi. NE. of Cape Jeremy, off the W. coast of Palmer 



Pen.; in 69°20'S., 68°36'W. First seen from 

 the air and photographed by the BGLE in 1936, 

 and later roughly mapped from the photographs. 

 The islets were visited and surveyed from the 

 ground in 1948 by the FIDS, and so named by 

 them because there is mica in the schists which 

 form them. 



MICHAEL, MOUNT: active volcanic mountain 

 about 2,600 ft. in el., surmounting Saunders I., in 

 the South Sandwich Is.; in 57°48'S., 26°28'W. 

 The island was disc, by a Br. exp. under Cook in 

 1775, but the mountain was presumably first 

 charted in 1820 by a Russ. exp. under Bellings- 

 hausen. Recharted in 1930 by DI personnel on 

 the Discovery II and named for Michael J. de C. 

 Carey, son of Cdr. W. M. Carey, RN (Ret.), cap- 

 tain of the Discovery II at the time of the survey. 



Michailoff's Island: see Cornwallis Island. 



MICHELSEN ISLAND: small island in the 

 South Orkney Is., joined to the S. end of Powell I. 

 by a narrow isthmus of occasionally submerged 

 boulders; in 60°45'S., 45°02'W. The island appears 

 to be first charted and named on a map by Capt. 

 Petter S0rlle, Norwegian whaler who made a run- 

 ning survey of the South Orkney Is. in 1912-13. 

 Not adopted: Michelsens Island. 



MICKLE ISLET: islet about 1 mi. SE. of Flag- 

 staff Pt., close off the W. side of Ross I.; in about 

 77°34'S., 166°11'E. Charted and named by the 

 BrAE under Shackleton, 1907-9. Not adopted: 

 Mickle Island. 



Middle Crest: see Mekammen Crest. 



Middle Island: see Day Island. 



MIDDLE ISLET: islet about 1.5 mi. S. of Fore- 

 land Islet and about midway along the E. coast 

 of King George I., in the South Shetland Is.; in 

 61°57'S., 57°36'W. Charted in 1937 by DI per- 

 sonnel on the Discovery II, and so named because 

 of its position. 



Middle Mountain: see Mefjell Mountain. 



MIKHAYLOV POINT: small promontory mark- 

 ing the S. extremity of Visokoi I., South Sand- 

 wich Is.; in 54°44'S., 27°12'W. The descriptive 

 name Low Point was given for this feature by DI 

 personnel following their survey of 1930, but this 

 name has been rejected because there is a Low 

 Point at nearby Vindication Island. The name 

 Mikhaylov Point was recommended by the Br-APC 

 in 1953 and is for Pavel N. Mikhaylov, artist 

 aboard the Vostok during the Russ. exp. under 

 Bellingshausen, 1819-21. Milhaylov made an ex- 



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