GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



MILL INLET : ice-filled inlet which recedes about 

 8 mi. in a NW.-SE. direction, and is some 20 mi. 

 wide at its entrance between Cape Robinson and 

 Monnier Pt., along the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 

 66"56'S., 64°20'W. Charted by the FIDS in 1947 

 and named for Hugh Robert Mill. Photographed 

 from the air during 1947 by the RARE under Ronne. 

 Not adopted: Sullivan Inlet. 



MILL ISLAND: ice-domed island about 1 mi. 

 long and 15 mi. wide, lying about 22 mi. N. of 

 Thomas I., off the W. end of Knox Coast; in about 

 65°37'S., 100°48'E. Disc, in February 1936 by DI 

 personnel on the William Scoresby, and named for 

 Hugh Robert Mill. 



MILL PEAK: prominent, detached peak about 

 5,750 ft. in el., lying about 32 mi. S. of Cape Simp- 

 son and about 11 mi. S. of Pearce Peak, inland from 

 Mac-Robertson Coast; in about 67°59'S., 61°12'E. 

 Disc, in Feb. 17, 1931 by the BANZARE under Maw- 

 son, who named it for Hugh Robert Mill. 



MILLS, MOUNT: peak about 7,400 ft. in el., at 

 the N. end of the Dominion Range; in about 

 85°13'S., 166°00'E. Disc, by the BrAE under 

 Shackleton, 1907-9, and named for Sir James Mills, 

 chairman of the Union Steamship Co., who jointly 

 with the Govt, of New Zealand paid the cost of 

 towing the exp. ship Nimrod to the Antarctic in 

 1908. 



MILWARD PATCH: large patch of kelp about 2 

 mi. N. of the E. part of Bird I., off the W. tip of 

 South Georgia; in about 53°58'S., 38°03'W. Mil- 

 ward Patch was charted in 1930, along with other 

 nearby navigational hazards, by DI personnel on 

 the William Scoresby, and named for C. A. Mil- 

 ward, Chief Officer of the William Scoresby at the 

 time of the survey. 



MIMAS PEAK: sharp conspicuous peak which 

 appears from George VI Sound to be the most dis- 

 tant nunatak at the head of Saturn Glacier, situ- 

 ated about 12 mi. W. of Deimos Ridge in the SE. 

 part of Alexander I Island; in about 71°56'S., 

 69°23'W. This peak was first seen and photo- 

 graphed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on Nov. 

 23, 1935, and was mapped from these photographs 

 by W. L. G. Joerg. It is probably the highest peak 

 in the range discovered there by Ellsworth. The 

 peak was seen from a distance in 1949 by the FIDS 

 and roughly positioned. Named by FIDS for its 

 association with Saturn Glacier; Mimas being one 

 of the satellites of Saturn. 



MINERAL HILL: round-topped hill, about 1,400 

 ft. in el., with ice-free, talus-covered slopes, stand- 

 ing about 4 mi. S. of the head of Hope Bay and 3 

 mi. E. of the NE. end of Duse Bay, at the NE. end 



of Palmer Pen.; in 63°29'S., 57°03'W. Probably 

 first seen by the SwedAE under Nordenskjold, 

 1901-4. First charted by the FIDS in 1946, who 

 so named it because small quantities of reddish 

 mineral in the rock gave the surfaces a conspicu- 

 ous color. 



MINNA BLUFF: long, narrow, bold peninsula, 

 about 25 mi. long and 5 mi. wide, projecting SE. 

 from Mt. Discovery into the NW. portion of Ross 

 Ice Shelf; in about 78°40'S., 167°05'E. Disc, and 

 named by the BrNAE under Scott in September 

 1902. 



MINNEHAHA ICEFALLS: small, heavily cre- 

 vassed ice fall descending the steep W. slopes of Mt. 

 England, and forming a S. tributary to New Gl. 

 close W. of its terminus at Granite Hbr., in Vic- 

 toria Land; in about 77°02'S., 162°26'E. Charted 

 and named by the BrAE under Scott, 1910-13. 



MINTO, MOUNT: peak about 10,000 ft. in el., 

 standing at the SW. side of Robertson Bay in the 

 Admiralty Range, in northern Victoria Land; in 

 about 71°35'S., 169°20'E. Disc, in January 1841 

 by a Br. exp. under Ross, who named it for Rt. Hon. 

 Earl Minto, then First Lord of the Admiralty. 



MIROUNGA FLATS: small, partially enclosed 

 tidal area in the inner, northwestern corner of 

 Borge Bay, Signy I., South Orkney Is.; in 60°42'S., 

 45°37'W. Its E. limit is formed by the Thule Its.; 

 its N. and W. limits by Signy I. The tidal area 

 dries at low water. Roughly surveyed in 1933 by 

 DI personnel. Resurveyed in 1947 by the FIDS, 

 and so named by them because elephant seals 

 (Mirounga leonina) are found there in large num- 

 bers during the moulting period. 



Mission Island: see Masson Island. 



MISTICHELLI HILLS : group of moderately low, 

 rocky hills, about 2 mi. long and 1 mi. wide, which 

 lie midway between McKaskle Hills and Peterson 

 Ice Falls and front on Ingrid Christensen Coast; in 

 about 70°02'S., 72°07'E. Delineated in 1952 by 

 John H. Roscoe from aerial photographs taken by 

 USN Op. Hjp. in March 1947, and named by him for 

 G. Mistichelli, air crewman on USN Op. Hjp. photo- 

 graphic flights in this area and other coastal areas 

 between 14° and 164°, east longitude. 



MISTY PASS: pass about 2,300 ft. in el., lying 

 between the head of Broad Valley and a valley 

 descending N. to Bransfield Str., situated about 7 

 mi. SE. of Cape Ducorps on Louis Philippe Pen.; in 

 63°29'S., 57°59'W. Disc, by the FIDS in 1946, and 

 so named because clouds pouring E. through the 

 pass had been noted by the survey party to herald 

 bad weather. 



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