GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Niznik family of Baltimore, Md., contributors to 

 the expedition. Not adopted: Niznik Island. 



NOBBY: rock at the SE. end of the Gierke Rocks, 

 lying some 45 mi. ESE. of the SE. end of South 

 Georgia; in 55°02'S., 34°38'W. The Gierke Rocks 

 were disc, by Gapt. James Cook in 1775. Nobby 

 was probably given this descriptive name by DI 

 personnel, who made surveys of the South Georgia 

 area in the period 1926-30. 



NOBBY NUNATAK: nunatak about 1,000 ft. in 

 el. on the SE. shore of Hope Bay, standing 1 mi. 

 S. of Lake Boeckella and 1 mi. E. of Mt. Flora, at 

 the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; in 63°25'S., 56°59'W. 

 This area was first explored by a party under 

 J. Gunnar Andersson of the SwedAE, 1901-4. 

 Nobby Nunatak was first charted and named by 

 the FIDS in 1945. The name is descriptive. 



NOBLE, MOUNT: peak about 4,000 ft. in el., 

 standing about 2 mi. W. of Gibbon Bay in the E. 

 portion of Coronation I., in the South Orkney Is.; 

 in about 60°40'S., 45°18'W. Although presumably 

 first sighted by Gapt. Nathaniel Palmer and Gapt. 

 George Powell in 1821, the peak was named by 

 James Weddell in 1823 for his friend James Noble 

 of Edinburgh, orientalist. 



NOBLE PEAK: peak about 1,800 ft. in el., stand- 

 ing 1 mi. SW. of Lockley Pt. and marking the NE. 

 end of a prominent ridge on the NW. side of 

 Wiencke I., in the Palmer Arch.; in 64°48'S., 

 63°25'W. Disc, by the BelgAE, 1897-99, under De 

 Gerlache. The name appears on a chart based 

 on a 1927 survey by DI personnel on the Discovery, 

 but may reflect an earlier naming. 



NOBLE ROCKS: group of about 19 rocks that 

 form the easternmost group in the De Dion Its., 

 lying in Marguerite Bay off the W. coast of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 67°52'S., 68°41'W. The De Dion Its. 

 were first sighted and roughly charted in 1909 by 

 the FrAE under Charcot. Noble Rocks were sur- 

 veyed in 1949 by the FIDS, who so named them 

 because of their association with Emperor Islet. 



NOEL HILL: conspicuous slate knob at the S. 

 side oL Marian Cove, King George I., in the South 

 Shetland Is.; in about ' 62'°a3'S., 58°44'W. The 

 name is used by the Scottish geologist David Fergu- 

 son in a 1921 report based upon his investigations 

 of King George I. in 1913-14, but may reflect an 

 earlier naming by whalers. 



Nogood Lagoon: see Little Jason Lagoon. 



Nordenskiold Barrier: see Nordenskjold Ice 

 Tongue. 



Nordenskiold Glacier: see Nordenskjold Glacier. 



Nordenskiold Glacier Tongue; Nordenskiold Ice 

 Barrier; Nordenskiold Ice Tongue; Nordenskiold 

 Tongue: see Nordenskjold Ice Tongue. 



NORDENSKJOLD COAST: that portion of the 

 E. coast of Palmer Pen. extending from Gape Long- 

 ing, in 64°33'S., 58°50'W., to Cape Fairweather, in 

 65°00'S., 61°05'W. The name was proposed in 

 1909 by Edwin Swift Balch, for Dr. Otto Norden- 

 skjold, Swedish geographer and leader of the 

 SwedAE, 1901-4, along this coast in 1902. Not 

 adopted: Terre Otto Nordenskjold [French]. 



NORDENSKJOLD GLACIER: large glacier flow- 

 ing northward to the head of Cumberland East 

 Bay, on the N. coast of South Georgia; in 54°22'S., 

 36°23'W. Charted by the SwedAE, 1901-4, and 

 named for Dr. Otto Nordenskjold, leader of the 

 expedition. Not adopted: Nordenskiold Glacier, 

 Nordenskjold Glacier. 



NORDENSKJOLD ICE TONGUE: glacier tongue 

 about 5 mi. wide, forming an extension of Mawson 

 Gl. along the coast of Victoria Land; in about 

 76°12'S., 162°30'E. Disc, by the BrNAE, 1901-4, 

 under Scott, at which time it extended about 20 

 mi. into Ross Sea. Scott named it for Dr. Otto 

 Nordenskjold. This feature had become well estab- 

 lished by the name Nordenskjold Ice Tongue prior 

 to initiation of systematic application of common 

 specific names to a glacier and its glacier tongue. 

 Although this feature is a glacier tongue, the 

 generic term ice tongue is retained in the name 

 to reduce ambiguity. Not adopted: Nordenskiold 

 Barrier, Nordenskiold Glacier Tongue, Norden- 

 skiold Ice Barrier, Nordenskiold Ice Tongue, Nor- 

 denskiold Tongue. 



NORDENSKJOLD PEAK: conspicuous, partly 

 snow-covered mountain, about 7,100 ft. in el., 

 standing near the head of Nordenskjold Glacier, 

 in the Allardyce Range of South Georgia; in 

 54°29'S., 36°22'W. The name derives from nearby 

 Nordenskjold Glacier, and was given by David 

 Ferguson, Scottish geologist who visited South 

 Georgia in 1911-12. 



NORDKAMMEN CREST: massive mountain 

 about 3,400 ft. in el., which extends 4 mi. in a N.-S. 

 direction and forms the N. portion of the Masson 

 Range of the Framnes Mtns., on Mac-Robertson 

 Coast; in about 67°47'S., 62°52'E. It was mapped 

 and named by Norwegian cartographers from aerial 

 photographs taken on a Nor. exp. under Christen- 

 sen in January 1937. The name is descriptive, 

 meaning "north comb." Not adopted: Nordkam- 

 men [Norwegian], North Crest. 



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