GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Pennilea, Lake: see Kroner Lake. 



PENOLA ISLET: islet lying close off the S. coast 

 of King George I. about 2 mi. NE. of Three Sisters 

 Point, in the South Shetland Is.; in 62° OS'S., 

 57°52'W. Charted in 1937 by DI personnel on the 

 Discovery II, and named for the Penola, the BGLE 

 ship which assisted the Discovery II in the search 

 for a survey party stranded on King George I. in 

 January 1937. 



PENOLA STRAIT: strait about 7 mi. long and 

 averaging 2 mi. wide, separating the Argentine Is. 

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

 64°14'W. This strait was traversed by the BelgAE 

 under De Gerlache on Feb. 12, 1898. Named by the 

 BGLE under Rymill, 1934-37, after the exp. ship 

 Penola. 



PEPIN CAPE: ice-covered cape at the W. side 

 of the Barre Gl. on Adelie Coast; in about 66°32'S., 

 138°34'E. Disc, and named by the Fr. exp. under 

 D'Urville in 1840. The area was charted by the 

 AAE in 1912-13, and again by the BANZARE in 

 1931, both under Mawson. The cape was more 

 recently delineated from aerial photographs taken 

 by USN Op. Hjp., 1946-47. 



PERCE, CAPE: cape at the S. side of the W. end 

 of Alexander I Island, which marks the NE. side 

 of the entrance to Ronne Entrance; in about 

 71°39'S., 76°00'W. Disc, by Snow, Perce and Car- 

 roll of the USAS in a flight from East Base on 

 Dec. 22, 1940, and named for Earl B. Perce, co-pilot 

 and radio operator of the expedition. 



PERCHOT, MOUNT: mountain about 6,700 ft. 

 in el.,- surmounted by a prominent ridge trending 

 in a general N.-S. direction, standing about 5 mi. 

 SE. of Magnier Peaks between Mt. Chevreux and 

 Mt. Bigo, on the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 

 65°44'S., 64°12'W. Disc, by the FrAE under Char- 

 cot, 1908-10 and named by him for Monsieur 

 Perchot, an acquaintance who donated seventy 

 pairs of boots to the expedition. 



Perez, Cape: see Trois Perez, Cape. 



Perick Glacier: see Penck Glacier. 



PERKINS, MOUNT: mountain about 2,500 ft. 

 in el., standing at the E. end of the Fosdick Mtns. 

 in the Edsel Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land; in 

 about 76°30'S., 144°05'W. Disc, by the ByrdAE 

 on the Northeastern Flight on Dec. 15-16, 1934. 

 Named for Jack E. Perkins, biologist at the USAS 

 West Base, 1939-41, and leader of the Edsel Ford 

 Mountains Biological Party which visited this area 

 in December 1940. 



PERPLEX RIDGE: ridge, more than 3,000 ft. in 

 el., composed of four rocky masses separated by 

 small glaciers, extending 6 mi. northeastwards 

 from Cape Lainez along the NW. side of Pourquoi 

 Pas I., off the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 67°40'S., 

 67°43'W. First sighted and roughly charted in 

 1909 by the FrAE under Charcot. It was surveyed 

 in 1936 by the BGLE and in 1948 by the FIDS. So 

 named by FIDS because of confusion in attempting 

 to identify this ridge from earliei; maps. 



PERRIER BAY: bay about 3 mi. long and 3 mi. 

 wide, indenting the NW. coast of Anvers I. about 

 8 mi. SW of Cape Gronland, in the Palmer Arch.; 

 in 64°27'S., 63°41'W. Disc, by the FrAE under 

 Charcot, 1903-5, and named by him for Edmond 

 Perrier, French naturalist. 



PERRY BAY: open, ice-filled bay about 13 mi. 

 wide and 4 mi. long, indenting Clarie Coast be- 

 tween Freeman Pt. and Freeman Gl. on the W. 

 and the stubby peninsula terminating in Cape 

 Keltie on the E.; in about 65°55'S., 132°55'E. De- 

 lineated from aerial photographs taken by USN 

 Op. Hjp., 1946-47, and named by the US-ACAN for 

 Lt. O. H. Perry on the sloop of war Peacock of the 

 USEE under Wilkes, 1838-42. 



PERSSON ISLAND: island about 1.5 mi. long 

 and 0.5 mi. wide, lying in the entrance to Rohss 

 Bay along the SW. side of James Ross I., which 

 lies S. of the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; in 64°12'S., 

 58°24'W. Disc, by the SwedAE under Norden- 

 skjold, 1901-4, and named by him for Nils Persson, 

 patron of the expedition. Not adopted : N. Persson 

 Island, N. Personns o [Swedish] . 



PERUTZ GLACIER: glacier, about 11 mi. long 

 and 2 mi. wide, which flows WNW. into Bourgeois 

 Fjord, close E. of Thomson Head, on the W. coast 

 of Palmer Pen.; in 67°36'S., 66°33'W. The mouth 

 of the glacier was first surveyed in 1936 by the 

 BGLE under Rymill. The entire glacier was sur- 

 veyed in 1946-47 and 1948-49 by the FIDS, and 

 named by them for Max F. Perutz of the Caven- 

 dish Laboratory, Cambridge, who has made im- 

 portant studies on the mechanism of glacier flow. 



PETER I ISLAND: ice-covered island about 14 

 mi. long, in a N.-S. direction, and about 5 mi. 

 wide, lying NE. of Thurston Pen.; in about 68°50'S., 

 90°35'W. Disc, in January 1821 by a Russ. exp. 

 under Bellingshausen, who named it for Peter 

 the Great of Russia. 



PETERMANN ISLAND: island about 1 mi. long 

 and 0.5 mi. wide, lying in the Dannebrog Is. about 

 1 mi. W. of Cape Duseberg, off the W. coast of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 65°11'S., 64°11'W. Disc, by the 

 Ger. exp. under Dallmann, 1873-74, and named 



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