GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Rosita Bay: see Sunset Fjord. 



ROSAMEL ISLAND: circular island about 1 mi. 

 in diameter with precipitous cliffs of volcanic rock 

 rising to a snow-covered peak about 1,400 ft. in el., 

 lying W. of Dundee I. at the E. side of the S. en- 

 trance to Antarctic Sound, off the NE. end of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 63°34'S., 56°17'W. Disc, by the 

 Fr. exp., 1837-40, under D'Urville, and named by 

 him for V. Adm. Claude de Rosamel, French Min- 

 ister of Marine under whose orders the exp. sailed. 



ROSENTHAL ISLETS: string of N.-S. trending 

 islets fringing the W. coast of Anvers I. between 

 De Gerlache Pt. and Cape Albert de Monaco at a 

 distance of about 1 mi., in the Palmer Arch.; in 

 64°38'S., 64°12'W. Disc, by the Ger. exp., 1873-74, 

 under Dallmann, and named by him for Albert 

 Rosenthal, Dir. of the Soc. for Polar Navigation, 

 who with the society sponsored the expedition. 

 Not adopted: Rosenthal Islands. 



ROSITA HARBOR: small bay lying 1 mi. N. of 

 Camp Bay in the W. side of the Bay of Isles, South 

 Georgia; in 54°01'S., 37°27'W. The names Rosita 

 Harbor and AUardyce Harbor were given for this 

 bay in the period 1905-12, and both names have 

 since appeared on maps for this feature. Follow- 

 ing a survey of South Georgia in 1951-52, the SGS 

 reported that this feature is known locally as Rosita 

 Harbor. This latter name is approved on the basis 

 of local usage. The name AUardyce is rejected as 

 applied to this feature; the main mountain range at 

 South Georgia is already named for William L. 

 AUardyce. The name Rosita Harbor is named after 

 the Rosita, one of the whale catchers of Messrs. 

 Salvesen and Co., which started operating with the 

 company in 1905, and which anchored in this bay. 

 Not adopted: AUardyce Harbor. 



ROSS, CAPE: granite headland, 200 ft. in el., 

 about 10 mi. NE. of Granite Hbr., on the coast of 

 Victoria Land; in about 76°45'S., 163°02'E. First 

 charted by the BrAE, 1907-9, under Shackleton, 

 who named this feature for Sir James Clark Ross, 

 noted British Antarctic explorer. 



Ross, Mount: see Haddington, Mount. 



ROSS GLACIER: glacier flowing E. to the head 

 of Royal Bay, on the N. coast of South Georgia; 

 in 54°32'S., 36°06'W. Charted by a Ger. exp., 

 1882-83, under Schrader, and named for Sir James 

 Clark Ross. 



Ross Ice Barrier: see Ross Ice Shelf. 



ROSS ICE SHELF : vast ice shelf, to a large part 

 grounded, occupying the entire S. part of the Ross 

 Sea embayment and ending seaward in a cliffed 



ice front about 400 mi. long; in 81°30'S., 175''00'W. 

 Disc, by Capt. (later Sir) James Clark Ross, RN, 

 for whom it is named, on Jan. 28, 1841. Ross 

 mapped the ice front eastward to 160°W. Not 

 adopted: Grosse Eisebene [German], Ross Ice 

 Barrier, Ross Shelf Ice. 



Ross Island: see James Ross Island. 



ROSS ISLAND : island about 43 mi. long and 45 

 mi. wide, located E. of McMurdo Sound at the 

 outer edge of the Ross Ice Shelf; in about 77°30'S., 

 168°00'E. Disc, in 1902 by the BrNAE under Scott, 

 who named it for Sir James Clark Ross. 



ROSS PASS: narrow but well-defined pass be- 

 tween the SE. end of the AUardyce Range and the 

 NW. end of the Salvesen Range, South Georgia; 

 in 54°32'S., 36°16'W. It is about 2,000 ft. in el., 

 and provides a sledging route between Ross Gl. 

 and Brdgger Gl. The feature was first charted 

 by the Ger. exp. under Schrader in 1882-83. The 

 name Ross Pass, which derives from association 

 with nearby Ross GL, was given by the SGS fol- 

 lowing their survey of 1951-52. Not adopted: 

 Gletcher-Joch [German], Royal Pass. 



ROSS POINT: point on the SW. side of Nelson 

 I., about 1.5 mi. SE. of Harmony Cove, in the South 

 Shetland Is.; in 62°21'S., 59°09'W. The point was 

 charted by DI personnel on the Discovery II in 

 1935. Probably named for Sir James Clark Ross. 



ROSS SEA: large embayment of the Pacific 

 Ocean, extending deeply into Antarctica between 

 Cape Adare on the W. and Cape Colbeck on the 

 E.; in about 75°S., 175°W. Named for Sir James 

 Clark Ross. 



Ross Shelf Ice: see Ross Ice Shelf. 



Rote Insel: see Red Island. 



Rothschild, Cape; Rothschild, Mount: see Roths- 

 child Island. 



ROTHSCHILD ISLAND: island lying W. of the 

 N. end of Alexander I Island in the N. entrance to 

 Wilkins Str.; in about 69°25'S., 72°45'W. Disc, 

 from a distance and named by the FrAE, 1908-10, 

 under Charcot. Examination of aerial photo- 

 graphs of this feature taken by the USAS, 1939-41, 

 suggests that it may be connected by a low ice- 

 covered land mass at its E. side to a mountainous 

 mass, making this island much larger than 10 mi. 

 in extent as previously represented. Not adopted: 

 Cape Rothschild, Mount Rothschild. 



Rouge Island: see De Ronge Island. 



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