GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



MITCHELL ISLAND: rocky island about 2.5 mi. 

 long and 2 mi. wide, lying immediately S. of Bailey 

 and Clark Islands which, collectively, form the 

 group of three principal islands at the NE. end of 

 the Windmill Is. that lie close against Budd Coast; 

 in 66°20'S., 110°30'E. Delineated from aerial 

 photographs taken by USN Op. Hjp. in February 

 1947 which indicate tliat these three islands are 

 connected by a steep snow ramp to the continental 

 ice overlying Budd Coast. Prominent and moraine 

 deposits overlie and parallel the upper margin of 

 this snow ramp about 1 mi. from its outer edge on 

 Clark, Bailey and Mitchell Islands. Named by the 

 US-ACAN for Capt. Ray A. Mitchell, USN, captain 

 of the U.S.S. Cacapon, tanker of the western task 

 group of USN Op. Hjp., Task Force 68, 1946-47. 



MITCHELL PEAK: solitary pyramidal peak, 

 about 1,200 ft. in el., standing at the E. end of 

 Guest I., which lies W. of Paul Block Bay along 

 the coast of Marie Byrd Land; in about 76°25'S., 

 147°25'W. Sighted by the ByrdAE during a flight 

 on Dec. 5, 1929 over the NW. coast of Marie Byrd 

 Land. Named by Byrd for Hugh C. Mitchell, 

 mathematician of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, and member of the National Geographic 

 Soc. committee of experts which determined that 

 Byrd reached both the North and South Poles by 

 airplane in 1926 and 1929, respectively. Not 

 adopted: Hugh Mitchell Peak. 



Mitchells Island: see Robert Island. 



Mobiloil Bay: see Mobiloil Inlet. 



MOBILOIL INLET: ice-filled inlet, nurtured by 

 several NE. and E. flowing glaciers, lying between 

 Rock Pile Peaks on the W. and Hollick-Kenyon 

 Pen. on the E., along the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 68°35'S., 64°30'W. Disc, by Sir Hubert Wilkins 

 in a flight on Dec. 20, 1928, and named by him after 

 a product of the Vacuum Oil Co. of Australia. Not 

 adopted: Mobiloil Bay. 



MOE ISLAND: island about 1 mi. long, sepa- 

 rated from the SW. end of Signy I. by Fyr Chan., 

 in the South Orkney Is.; in 60°45'S., 45°41'W. The 

 name appears on a chart by Capt. Petter S0rlle in 

 1912-13. Probably named for Thoralf Moe of 

 Sandefjord, Norway, a whaling captain working in 

 Antarctic waters in that period. 



MOFFETT GLACIER: glacier about 5 mi. wide 

 and 20 mi. long, flowing in a NE. direction into 

 Amundsen Gl. between Mt. Ellsworth and Mt. 

 Breyer, in the Queen Maud Range; in about 

 85°54'S., 160°30'W. Disc, by the ByrdAE on the 

 South Polar FUght in November 1929. Named by 

 Byrd for R. Adm. WUliam A. Moffett, USN, first 



Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy 

 Department. 



MOHN BASIN: a major depression in the surface 

 of the south polar plateau, extending from the N. 

 slopes of Mounts Fridtjof Nansen and Don Pedro 

 Christophersen for about 120 mi. to the S., and in- 

 cluding the region of Devils Gl., with a width of 

 about 20 mi.; its deepest portion lies in about 

 86°30'S., 167°00'W. Disc, in December 1911 on 

 the journey to the South Pole by the Nor. exp. un- 

 der Amundsen. Named by the US-ACAN for Prof. 

 Henrik Mohn, Norwegian meteorologist and author 

 of the meteorological report of the Nor. exp. under 

 Amundsen. 



MOHN PEAKS: two ice-covered peaks, the north- 

 ern and southern about 4,200 and 4,000 ft. in el., 

 respectively, standing about 9 mi. WSW. of the 

 head of Mason Inlet, on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 73°07'S., 61°16'W. First seen and photographed 

 from the air in December 1940 by the USAS. Dur- 

 ing 1947 the peaks were photographed from the 

 air by the RARE under Ronne, who in conjunction 

 with the FIDS charted them from the ground. 

 Named by the FIDS for Henrik Mohn. 



Moldaenke Berg: see Hodges, Mount. 



MOLLYHAWK ISLET: small, tussock grass 

 covered islet, lying between Seaward Rock and 

 Crescent It., about 2 mi. SE. of Cape BuUer, in the 

 N. part of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia; in 

 54°01'S., 37°19'W. Charted in 1912-13 by Robert 

 Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard 

 the brig Daisy. It was surveyed in 1929-30 by DI 

 personnel, who named it MoUyhawk Island in as- 

 sociation with Albatross I., Prion I. and other nat- 

 ural history names in the Bay of Isles given by 

 Murphy in 1912-13. The name Mollyhawk Islet is 

 approved because of the small size of the feature. 

 Not adopted : Mollyhawk Island. 



MOLTKE HARBOR: bay about 1 mi. wide in the 

 NW. side of Royal Bay, along the N. coast of South 

 Georgia; in 54°31'S., 36°04'W. Charted by a Ger. 

 exp. under Schrader, based at Royal Bay in 1882-83, 

 and named after the exp. ship Moltke. 



MOLTKE NUNATAK: nunatak standing at the 

 S. side of Wiedenmann Gl., about 25 mi. S. of Duke 

 Ernst Bay, on Luitpold Coast; in about 78°20'S., 

 35°00'W. Disc, in January-February 1912 by the 

 GerAE under Filchner, and named for Gen. Hel- 

 muth von Moltke, Chief of the German General 

 Staff and Sec. of State for Home Affairs. Not 

 adopted: Moltke Nunataks. 



Monaco, Cape: see Albert de Monaco, Cape. 



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