GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



visited and resurveyed in 1949 by the FIDS, who 

 estaWished a sealing camp there. The name, pro- 

 posed by FIDS, derives from the old sealers' term 

 pod, meaning a group of seals hauled ashore. 



Poindexter, Cape: see Reynolds, Mount. 



POINSETT, CAPE: ice-covered cape marking 

 the northernmost point of land on Budd Coast, 

 from which the coast recedes abruptly to the SW. 

 and SE.; in about 63°30'S., 113°00'E. The posi- 

 tion of Cape Poinsett correlates closely with the 

 high seaward extremity of "Budd's High Land" 

 as charted by Wilkes in 1840. Delineated from 

 aerial photographs taken by USN Op. Hjp., 

 1946-47, and named by the US-ACAN for Joel R. 

 Poinsett, Sec. of War imder Pres. Van Buren, who 

 was instrumental in the compilation and publica- 

 tion of the large number of scientific reports based 

 on the work of the USEE under Wilkes, 1838-42. 

 Poinsett was also instrumental in the preservation 

 of the USEE specimens and the subsequent foun- 

 dation of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Pointe: for names beginning thus see under 

 the specific part of the name. For example, for 

 Pointe Concepcion see Concepcion, Pointe. {Pointe 

 is a French word for "point.") 



Pointing Cliff: see Ponting Cliff. 



POLARARBOKEN GLACIER: channel glacier 

 about 5 mi. wide and over 5 mi. long, flowing W. 

 from the continental ice and terminating at the 

 E. side of Sandefjord Ice ToAgue, midway between 

 Polar Record Gl. and the Larsemann Hills on In- 

 grid Christensen Coast; in about 69°35'S., 75°28'E. 

 This glacier is marked by a prominent glacier 

 tongue about 3 mi. wide which in March 1947 

 extended W. for about 12 mi. Delineated in 1952 

 by John H. Roscoe from aerial photographs taken 

 by USN Op. Hjp., 1946-47. Named by Roscoe after 

 Polar arhoken, a polar journal published by the 

 Norsk Polarklubb at Oslo, Norway. 



POLARFORSCHUNG GLACIER: channel glacier 

 about 5 mi. wide and over 8 mi. long, flowing NNW. 

 from the continental ice and terminating at the 

 SE. side of Sandefjord Ice Bay, midway between 

 U Polo and Polar Record Glaciers on Ingrid 

 Christensen Coast; in about 69°50'S., 74°30'E. 

 This glacier is marked by a prominent glacier 

 tongue about 6 mi. wide, which in March 1947 ex- 

 tended NNW. for about 5 mi. Delineated in 1952 

 by John H. Roscoe from aerial photographs taken 

 by USN Op. Hjp., 1946-47. Named by Roscoe after 

 Polar forschung, a polar journal published since 

 1930, by the Archiv fiir Pol3,rforschung at Kiel, 

 Germany. 



POLAR RECORD GLACIER: channel glacier 

 about 15 mi. wide and of undetermined length, 

 flowing NW. from the continental ice and termi- 

 nating at the SE. side of Sandefjord Ice Bay, mid- 

 way between Polarforschung and Polar&rboken 

 Glaciers on Ingrid Christensen Coast; in about 

 70°00'S., 75°10'E. This glacier is marked by a 

 massive glacier tongue about 10 mi. wide, which 

 in March 1947 extended NNW. for about 40 mi. 

 Delineated in 1952 by John H. Roscoe from aerial 

 photographs taken by USN Op. Hjp., 1946-47. 

 Named by Roscoe after The Polar Record, a polar 

 journal published, since 1931, by the Scott Polar 

 Research Institute at Cambridge, England. 



POLAR TIMES GLACIER: channel glacier about 

 6 mi. wide and over 15 mi. long, flowing NE. from 

 the continental ice and terminating at the SE. 

 side of Sandefjord Ice Bay, midway between Mt. 

 Caroline Mikkelsen and II Polo Gl. on Ingrid 

 Christensen Coast; in about 69°48'S., 74°02'E. 

 This glacier is marked by a prominent glacier 

 tongue about 7 mi. wide, which in March 1947 

 extended N. for about 10 miles. Delineated in 

 1952 by John H. Roscoe from aerial photographs 

 taken by USN Op. Hjp., 1946-47. Named by Roscoe 

 after Polar Times, a polar journal published, since 

 1938, by the American Polar Society at New York 

 City. 



POLLOCK, CAPE: cape which forms the N. end 

 of Dixson I., at the W. side of the mouth of Ninnis 

 GL, along George V Coast; in about 68°03'S., 

 146°46'E. Disc, in 1912 by the AAE Main Base 

 party under Mawson, and named for Prof. J. A. 

 Pollock of the Expedition Advisory Committee. 



Polotsk Island: see Robert Island. 



POLYNESIA POINT: ice-free point forming the 

 N. side of the entrance to Paal Hbr. on the E. side 

 of Signy I., South Orkney Is.; in 60°43'S., 45°36'W. 

 Surveyed in 1933 by DI personnel, and resurveyed 

 in 1947 by the FIDS. Named by the Br-APC in 

 1954 after the floating factory Polynesia, of the 

 Rethval Whaling Co. of Oslo, which worked in 

 the South Orkney Is. in 1913-14. 



Pomona Island: see Coronation Island. 



POMONA PLATEAU: ice-covered plateau, over 

 1,000 ft. in el., extending between Sandefjord 

 Peaks and Deacon Hill m the western part of Cor- 

 onation I., South Orkney Is.; in 60°36'S., 45°56'W. 

 Named by the Br-APC following a survey by the 

 FIDS in 1948-50. This naming revives in an 

 altered form a name given by James Weddell in 

 1822. Being unaware of the prior discovery of 

 Coronation I. by Capt. Nathaniel Palmer and Capt. 



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