GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Queen Maud Mountains: see Queen Maud Range. 



QUEEN MAUD RANGE: major range of moun- 

 tains standing at the head of Ross Ice Shelf in the 

 general vicinity of Beardmore Gl., in about 84°S., 

 174°E. and extending in a SE. direction for an 

 indeterminate distance beyond 87°S., 145°W. 

 Disc, in 1911 by a Nor. exp. under Amundsen, and 

 named by him for the Queen of Norway. Not 

 adopted: Dronning Mauds Fjell [Norwegian], 

 Konigin Maud Gebirge [German], Queen Maud's 

 Range, Queen Maud Mountains. 



Queen Mountain: see Queer Mountain. 



Queens Bay: see Borge Bay. 



QUEENSLAND, MOUNT: high peak about 25 mi. 

 WNW. of Mt. Melbourne, standing to the E. of Mt. 

 New Zealand, in Victoria Land; in about 74°00'S., 

 163°35'E. Disc, by the BrNAE under Scott, 1901-4, 

 who named this peak because of the generous as- 

 sistance given the exp. by both the govt, and people 

 of Queensland. 



QUEER MOUNTAIN: mountain about 3,400 ft. 

 in el., standing at the head of Miller Gl. about 1 

 mi. W. of Killer Ridge, in Victoria Land; in about 

 77°08'S., 161°48'E. Charted and named by the 

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

 Mountain. 



Querthal: see Cross Valley. 



QUERY ISLET: prominent rocky islet lying be- 

 tween the foot of Clarke Gl. and Keyhole It. on the 

 S. side of Mikkelsen Bay, along the W. coast of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 68°47'S., 67°12'W. Surveyed in 

 1948 by the FIDS, who so named it because of the 

 difficulty in deciding from a distance whether the 

 feature was an islet or part of the mainland. 



QUILP ROCK: small, isolated rock in Laubeuf 

 Fjord, lying 3.5 mi. SSE. of the S. tip of Piiiero I. 

 and 1.5 mi. off the NW. side of Pourquoi Pas I., off 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 67°38'S., 67°46'W. 

 First surveyed in 1948 by the FIDS, and named by 

 them after the dwarf, Daniel Quilp, a vicious, ill- 

 tempered character in The Old Curiosity Shop, by 

 Charles Dickens. 



QUINTANA ISLETS: group of islets and rocks 

 about 5 mi. N. of the Betbeder Islets and some 17 

 mi. WNW. of the Argentine Is., off the W. coast of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 65°11'S., 65°00'W. Disc, by the 

 FrAE under Charcot, 1903-5, and named by him 

 for Manuel Quintana, Pres. of the Argentine Re- 

 public, 1904-6. Charted by the BGLE under Ry- 

 mill, 1934-37. Not adopted: Quintana Islands. 



RABOT ISLAND: island about 12 mi. long and 

 4 mi. wide, lying about 1 mi. SW. of Renaud I., in 

 the Biscoe Is.; in 65°52'S., 66°09'W. Rabot Island 

 was first charted by the FrAE, 1903-5, under Char- 

 cot, who named it for Charles Rabot. 



RABOT, MOUNT: southernmost of three moun- 

 tains lying about 45 mi. inland from the W. side 

 of Ross Ice Shelf, in the Queen Alexandra Range, 

 and about 30 mi. SSE. of Mt. Markham; in about 

 83°25'S., 162°00'E. Disc, by the BrAE under 

 Shackleton, 1907-9, who named it for Charles 

 Rabot, editor of La Geographie, of the Geo- 

 graphical Soc. of Paris, an outstanding glaciologist 

 of that period. 



Rade Point: see Kade Point. 



RADFORD MOUNTAINS: mountains about 

 3,000 ft. in el., standing W. of Mt. Saunders in 

 the Edsel Ford Ranges, and occupying a relatively 

 isolated frontal position on Sulzberger Bay, in 

 Marie Byrd Land; in about 76°52'S., 146°40'W. 

 Disc, by R. Adm. Byrd on the Eastern Flight of 

 Dec. 5, 1929, and named for V. Adm. Arthur W. 

 Radford, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations 

 (Air) during the exploration by USN Op. Hjp., 

 1946-47, and later Adm. and Chairman of the 

 Joint Chiefs of Staff. 



RAE, POINT: point marking the N. side of the 

 entrance to Scotia Bay on the S. coast of Laurie 

 I., in the South Orkney Is.; in 60°46'S., 44°37'W. 

 First charted by the ScotNAE under Bruce, 1902-4, 

 who named it for John Rae, Scottish Arctic ex- 

 plorer and member of the Sir John Richardson 

 exp., 1854, who learned the fate of the Sir John 

 Franklin Arctic exp., 1847. 



Ragged Island: see Rugged Island. 



Ragnhild Coast: see Princess Ragnhild Coast. 



Rainoff's Island: see Gibbs Island. 



RALLIER DU BATY ISLET: islet about 0.25 mi. 

 in extent, with a smaller islet off its N. side, lying 

 0.25 mi. W. of the NW. extremity of Booth I., off 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 65°03'S., 64°04'W. 

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

 named by him for R. Rallier du Baty, merchant 

 marine cadet who signed on as seaman on the 

 exp. ship Frangais. Not adopted: Rallier du Baty 

 Islets. 



RAMP ROCK: the westernmost of a number of 

 rocks which extend 2.5 mi. N. and NW. of Johan- 

 nesen Pt., Main I., at the W. extremity of South 

 Georgia; in 54°01'S., 38°21'W. The name 

 "Laavebrua" has been used for this feature by 



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