GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Melchior Is., Palmer Arch.; in 64°18'S., 62°57'W. 

 The name was probably given by DI personnel who 

 roughly surveyed the islet in 1927. The islet was 

 surveyed by Ai'gentine expeditions in 1942, 1943 

 and 1948. Not adopted: Isla Iota [Spanish]. 



PEACOCK, MOUNT: high peak lying between 

 Mt. Humphrey Lloyd and Mt. Herschel in the Ad- 

 miralty Range, in northern Victoria Land; in about 

 72°14'S., 169°15'E. Disc, in January 1841 by a 

 Br. exp. under Ross, who named it for the Very 

 Reverend Dr. George Peacock, Dean of Ely. 



Peacock Bay: see Deakin Bay. 



PEACOCK BAY: ice-filled bay, deeply indenting 

 the E. end of Walgreen Coast, immediately W. of 

 Thurston Pen. and N. of the Hudson Mtns.; in 

 about 72°30'S., 100°30'W. Disc, on Feb. 25, 1940 

 by the USAS in a flight from the Bear, and further 

 delineated from aerial photographs taken by USN 

 Op. Hjp. in December 1946. Named after the 

 USEE sloop of war Peacock which sailed, in com- 

 pany with the tender Flying Fish, along the edge 

 of the pack ice NE. of this bay for several days in 

 March 1839. 



PEALE INLET: ice-filled inlet about 25 mi. long, 

 lying immediately W. of Noville Pen. and indenting 

 the NE. side of Thurston Pen.; in about 71°55'S., 

 97°40'W. Delineated from aerial photographs 

 taken by USN Op. Hjp. in December 1946. Named 

 by the US-AC AN for Titian Ramsay Peale, noted 

 artist, naturalist who served on the sloop of war 

 Peacock of the USEE under Wilkes, 1838-42. The 

 Peacock, accompanied by the Flying Fish, reached 

 a point within 100 mi. of Thurston Pen. during 

 March 1839. 



PEARCE PEAK: peak about 4,000 ft. in el., 

 standing close S. of Moyes Peak about 21 mi. S. of 

 Cape Simpson, on Mac-Robertson Coast; in about 

 67°48'S., 61°14'E. Disc, and named by the 

 BANZARE under Mawson on about Feb. 17, 1931. 



PEARSON POINT: forms the SW. point of Bird I., 

 off the W. end of South Georgia; in 54°01'S., 

 38°08'W. The name appears on a chart by DI per- 

 sonnel who charted South Georgia during the 

 period 1926-30. 



Peary, Massif: see Peary, Mount. 



PEARY, MOUNT: conspicuous massif about 6,200 

 ft. in el., with a flat, snow-covered summit several 

 miles in extent, surmounted by a marginal peak on 

 the W., standing about 7 mi. ENE. of Cape Tuxen, 

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

 63°52'W. Disc, by the FrAE under Charcot, 1908- 

 10, and named by him for R. Adm. Robert E. Peary, 



USN, famous American Arctic explorer and dis- 

 coverer of the North Pole in 1909. Not adopted: 

 Massif Peary [French] , Mount Matin. 



PECHELL, MOUNT: prominent peak lying 

 between Mt. Troubridge and Mt. Dalmeny in the 

 Admiralty Range, in northern Victoria Land; in 

 about 71°05'S., 167°27'E. Disc, in January 1841 

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

 Sir Samuel J. Brooke Pechell, a Junior Naval Lord 

 of the Admiralty at that time. 



PEDERSEN NUNATAK: the westernmost of the 

 Seal Nunataks, lying about 8 mi. NE. of Cape Fair- 

 weather, off the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 64°56'S., 

 60°46'W. Pedersen Nunatak was first charted in 

 1947 by the FIDS, and named for Capt. Morten 

 Pedersen of the Norwegian sealer Castor, which 

 operated in Antarctic waters during the 1893-94 

 season. 



PEGTOP MOUNTAIN: mountain about 4,000 ft. 

 in el., marked by several conspicuous knobs, the 

 highest and westernmost knob protruding about 

 1,800 ft. above Mackay Gl. about 5 mi. W. of Mt. 

 Suess, in Victoria Land; in about 77°03'S., 161°20'E. 

 Charted and given this descriptive name by the 

 BrAE under Scott, 1910-13. Not adopted: Pegtop 

 Nunatak. 



Pegtop Nunatak: see Pegtop Mountain. 



PELSENEER ISLAND: island about 4 mi. long 

 and 2 mi. wide, with three prominent rocky peaks 

 projecting through its icecap, lying about 3 mi. S. 

 of Delaite I. in the south-central portion of Wil- 

 helmina Bay, along the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 64°37'S., 62°03'W. Disc, by the BelgAE under 

 De Gerlache, 1897-99, and named by him for P. 

 Pelseneer, member of the Belgica Commission and 

 the Royal Academy of Belgium. 



PELTIER CHANNEL: channel about 6 mi. long 

 and 1 mi. wide, in the shape of the numeral 7, 

 with its main stem oriented in a N.-S. direction, 

 separating Doumer and Wiencke Islands S. of Port 

 Lockroy, in the Palmer Arch., in 64°52'S., 63°33'W. 

 Disc, by the FrAE, 1903-5, under Charcot, and 

 named by him for Jean Peltier, noted French 

 physicist. 



PENCK, CAPE: ice-covered cape, fronting on 

 West Ice Shelf about 45 mi. WNW. of Gaussberg, 

 which separates Leopold and Astrid Coast from 

 Wilhelm II Coast; in about 66°40'S., 87°35'E. 

 Roughly charted in December 1912 by the Western 

 Base party of the AAE under Mawson, and named 

 by him for Albrecht Penck, internationally known 

 German geographer. 



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