GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



SE. of the SE. end of the Thorvald Nilsen Mtns., 

 and terminating in Mt. Wyatt; in about 86°43'S., 

 155°00'W. Disc, in December 1934 by the ByrdAE 

 geological party under Quin Blackburn, and 

 named by Byrd for Frederick H. Rawson, American 

 banker and contributor to the Byrd Antactic Ex- 

 peditions of 1928-30 and 1933-35. Not adopted: 

 Frederick H. Rawson Mountains. 



RAYMOND, MOUNT: peak at the SE. end of the 

 Dominion Range, rising above the plateau ice 

 to about 8,500 ft. in el., in the Queen Maud Range; 

 in about 85°58'S., 174°00'E. Disc, and named in 

 December 1908 by the Southern Journey Party of 

 the BrAE under Shackleton. 



Raymond Fosdick Mountains; Raymond Fosdick 

 Range: see Fosdick Mountains. 



RAYNER PEAK: mountain about 5,500 ft. in el., 

 visible at sea from a great distance, standing S. 

 of the head of Edward VII Bay near the junction 

 of Enderby Land and Kemp Coast; in about 

 67°27'S., 55°52'E. Disc, in February 1936 by DI 

 personnel on the William Scoresby and named for 

 George W. Rayner, zoologist on the DI staff and 

 leader of this expedition. Not adopted: Kjuringen 

 [Norwegian] . 



RAYNER POINT: point marked by a rocky peak 

 forming the N. side of the entrance to Gibbon 

 Bay, on the E. coast of Coronation I., in the South 

 Orkney Is.; in 60°39'S., 45°12'W. Charted in 

 1912-13 by Capt. Petter S0rlle, a Norwegian whaler. 

 Recharted in 1933 by DI personnel on the Dis- 

 covery II, and named by them for George W. 

 Rayner. 



Razorhack Island: see Big Razorback Island; 

 Little Razorback Island. 



REA, MOUNT: prominent mountain about 3,700 

 ft. in el., with a vertical face on its W. side called 

 The Billboard, standing between Arthur Davis and 

 Boyd Glaciers in the Edsel Ford Ranges, and front- 

 ing on Sulzberger Bay, in Marie Byrd Land; in 

 about 77°03'S., 145°35'W. Disc, by the ByrdAE 

 on the Eastern Flight of Dec. 5, 1929, and named 

 for Mr. and Mrs. Rea, of Pittsburgh, Pa., contribu- 

 tors to the expedition. 



RECLUS, CAPE: cape forming the N. tip of the 

 peninsula between Wilhelmina Bay and Charlotte 

 Bay, on the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 64°23'S., 

 61°48'W. Disc, by the BelgAE under De Gerlache, 

 1897-99, who named it for Elisee Reclus, noted 

 French geographer and author. 



RED BAY: small, open bay lying close S. of the 

 W. extremity of Red Rock Ridge, along the W. 

 coast of Palmer Pen.; in 68°18'S., 67°11'W. First 

 surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE under Rymill. The 

 bay was resurveyed in 1948-49 by the FIDS, and 

 so named by them for its association with Red 

 Rock Ridge. 



REDCLIFF NUNATAK: red granite ridge about 

 1,800 ft. in el., rising about 4 mi. E. of Mt. Suess 

 along the S. flank of Mackay Gl., in Victoria Land; 

 in about 77°02'S., 162°04'E. Charted by the BrAE, 

 1910-13, under Scott, and so named because of 

 its color. Not adopted : Redcliff , Redcliff s Nvmakol. 



Redcliffs Nunakol: see Redcliff Nunatak. 



RED ISLAND: circular, flat-topped island, 

 about 1 mi. in diameter and about 1,600 ft. in el., 

 with reddish cliffs of volcanic rock, lying about 3.5 

 mi. NW. of Cape Lachman, James Ross I., close 

 S. of the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; in 63°44'S., 

 57°52'W. Disc, and named by the SwedAE under 

 Nordenskjold, 1901-4. Not adopted: Rodon 

 [Swedish], Rote Insel [German]. 



RED ISLAND: conspicuous red lava island, 

 about 300 ft. in el., which lies about 0.5 mi. N. 

 of Laurens Pen., Heard I., and to which it is tied 

 by a low isthmus; in 52°58'S., 73°18'E. It was so 

 named because of its color, probably by American 

 sealers at Heard I. in the period following their 

 initiation of sealing there in 1855. The name ap- 

 pears on the chart by the Br. exp. under Nares, 

 which visited the island in the Challenger in 1874 

 and utilized the names then in use by the sealers. 



RED ROCK RIDGE; conspicuous reddish- 

 colored promontory, about 2,300 ft. in el., which 

 projects from the W. coast of Palmer Pen. and 

 separates Neny Fjord and Rymill Bay; in 68°18'S., 

 67°08'W. Surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE under 

 Rymill, who so named it because of its color. 

 Further surveys in 1948 by the FIDS have identi- 

 fied this ridge as the feature first sighted in 1909 

 and named "He Pavie" or "Cap Pavie" by the FrAE 

 under Charcot, but the name Red Rock Ridge is 

 now too firmly established to alter. The name 

 Pavie Ridge has been assigned to the prominent 

 rocky ridge at 68°34'S., 66°59'W. 



REECE, MOUNT: sharp, ice-free peak about 

 3,600 ft. in el., starding about 4 mi. W. of Pitt 

 Point. It is the highest point of a ridge forming 

 the S. wall of Victory Gl., on the SE. coast of 

 Louis Philippe Pen.; in 63°50'S., 58°32'W. Charted 

 in 1945 by the FIDS, and named for Lt. A. Reece, 

 leader of the FIDS Deception I. base in 1945, and 

 meteorologist and geologist at the Hope Bay base 

 in 1946. 



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