GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



in March 1947, and named by him for Lt. Cdr. 

 William J. Rogers, Jr., USN, plane commander of 

 one of three aerial crews which obtained photo- 

 graphic coverage of this area and other coastal 

 areas between 14° and 164°, east longitude. 



ROGERS HEAD : conspicuous headland marking 

 the N. extremity o£ the peninsula between Atlas 

 Cove and Corinthian Bay on the N. coast of Heard 

 I.; in 53°00'S., 73°24'E. Named for the Rogers 

 family of New London, Conn., including Capt. 

 Erasmus Darwin Rogers, who in 1855 made the 

 first landing on Heard I. in the ship Corinthian, 

 Capt. James H. Rogers, master of the brig Zoe, and 

 Henry Rogers, first mate of the Zoe, who in 1856 

 was leader of the first party to winter on the island. 

 The name appears on a 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. Not adopted: Rogers' Head, Roger's Head. 



ROGET, CAPE: cape in northeastern Victoria 

 Land, formed by the termination of Mt. Hershel 

 and marking the N. side of the entrance to Mou- 

 bray Bay; in about 72°05'S., 170°58'E. Disc, in 

 1841 by a Br. exp. under Ross and named for Dr. 

 Peter Mark Roget, noted English lexicographer 

 who was Sec. of the Royal Society. 



ROGGED BAY: small bay lying immediately N. 

 of Cape Disappointment, near the S. tip of South 

 Georgia; in 54°52'S., 36°07'W. The name Rogged 

 Bay, which was probably used by early sealers, was 

 recorded by Arnaldo Faustini on a 1906 map, and 

 applied to a wider embayment in this vicinity. 

 Following its survey in 1951-52, the SGS reported 

 that the small bay immediately N. of Cape Disap- 

 pointment required a name. The existing name 

 Rogged Bay was recommended, as limited to this 

 small bay, by the Br-APC in 1954. 



ROHSS BAY: bay about 11 mi. wide at its mouth, 

 decreasing to 3 mi. wide near its head, which re- 

 cedes NE. for about 12 mi. between Capes Broms 

 and Obelisk in the SW. part of James Ross I., close 

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

 58°16'W. Disc, by the SwedAE, 1901-4, under 

 Nordenskjold, and named by him for August and 

 Wilhelm Rohss, patrons of the expedition. 



Roi Georges, He du: see King George Island. 



Rot Oscar, Terre du: see Oscar II Coast. 



Rok-Bucht: see Rocky Bay. 



ROLAND BAY: a cove, the S. shore of which is 

 Herveou Pt., indenting the W. end of the peninsula 

 that separates Port Charcot from Salpetriere Bay, 

 on the W. side of Booth I., off the W. coast of Palmer 



Pen.; in 65°04'S., 64°03'W. First charted by the 

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

 for F. Roland, a seaman on the exp. ship Franqais. 



ROLAND BONAPARTE POINT: point on the SW. 

 coast of Anvers I., about 6 mi. NW. of Cape Lan- 

 caster and marking the W. side of the entrance to 

 Biscoe Bay, in the Palmer Arch.; in 64°47'S., 

 63°55'W. The point was charted by the FrAE, 

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

 Prince Roland Bonaparte, then Pres. of the Paris 

 Geographical Society. Not adopted: Bonaparte 

 Point. 



ROLF ROCK: small isolated rock in Hound Bay, 

 about 1.5 mi. SSE. of Tijuca Pt., along the N. coast 

 of South Georgia; in 54°22'S., 36°12'W. Named by 

 the Br-APC, following mapping by the SGS, 1951- 

 52, after the Rolf, one of the vessels of the Com- 

 pafiia Argentina de Pesca which participated in es- 

 tablishing the first permanent whaling station at 

 Grytviken, South Georgia, in 1904. 



Roman Figure Four Mountain; Roman Four 

 Rock: see Roman Four Promontory. 



ROMAN FOUR PROMONTORY: rocky promon- 

 tory about 2,700 ft. in el., marking the N. side of the 

 entrance to Neny Fjord, on the W. coast of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 68°13'S., 66°58'W. The promontory was 

 first charted by the BGLE, 1934-37, under Rymill. 

 The name appears to have been applied by members 

 of East Base of the USAS, 1939-41, whose base was 

 located on nearby Stonington I., and derives from 

 snow-filled clefts along the face of the promontory 

 giving the appearance of a Roman numeral IV. 

 Not adopted: Roman Figure Four Mountain, 

 Roman Four Rock. 



Romero, Cape; Romerof, Cape; Romeroff, Cape: 

 see Romerof Head. 



ROMEROF HEAD: prominent headland, with 

 steep rock cliffs, forming the W. side of the entrance 

 to Schlieper Bay, on the S. coast and near the W. 

 end of South Georgia; in 54°04'S., 37°53'W. The 

 name, which probably was given by early whalers, 

 dated back to at least 1912. Not adopted: Cape 

 Romero, Cape Romerof, Cape Romeroff. 



ROMNAES, MOUNT: prominent isolated moun- 

 tain between the shore and the S0r Rondane Mtns., 

 on Princess Ragnhild Coast; in about 71°35'S., 

 22°55'E. Disc, and charted on Feb. 6, 1937, by 

 members of a Nor. exp. under Christensen and 

 named for Nils Romnaes, aerial photographer of 

 this expedition. 



ROMULUS GLACIER: glacier, about 7 mi. long 

 and 2 mi. wide, which flows from the N. slopes of 

 Mt. Lupa westward to Rymill Bay between the 



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