GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



based upon a 1927 survey by DI personnel on the 

 Discovery, but may reflect an earlier naming. 



Smiths Island: see Livingston Island. 



Smitty, Cape: (in about 74°40'S., 61°43'W.) the 

 decision of August 1949 has been VACATED, since 

 no prominent cape exists in the position indicated. 

 Instead, the name Smith has been applied to the 

 peninsula in 74°25'S., 61°15'W. 



SMOKY WALL: a prominent mountain block, 

 about 6,100 ft. in el., in the Salvesen Range, South 

 Georgia; in 54°35'S., 36°11'W. The descriptive 

 name "Wetterwand" (meaning Weather Wall) was 

 given to this mountain by a Ger. exp., 1882-83, 

 under Schrader. It was surveyed by the SGS, 

 1951-52. When viewed from the NE., its summit is 

 level and regular and has the appearance of a wall. 

 The descriptive name Smoky Wall was recom- 

 mended by the Br-APC in 1954. Not adopted: 

 Wetterwand [German]. 



Smolensk Island: see Livingston Island. 



SMYLEY, CAPE: cape marking the SW. side of 

 the entrance to Ronne Entrance, lying at the W. 

 side of the N. end of the large, irregular-shaped 

 island fronting on Bellingshausen Sea between 

 Carroll Inlet and Ronne Entrance; in about 

 72°26'S., 78°10'W. Disc, by members of the USAS 

 in December 1940 and named after Capt. William 

 H. Smyley, American master of the sealing vessel 

 Ohio during 1841-42. Capt. Smyley, in February 

 1842, recovered the self-recording thermometer 

 left at Pendulum Cove, Deception I., by Capt. 

 Henry Foster of the Chanticleer, in 1829. The 

 minimum reading was reported to be —5° F. 



SMYTH, CAPE: the S. tip of Sturge I., in the 

 Balleny Is.; in about 67°37'S., 164°35'E. In 1841, 

 Capt. James Clark Ross, viewing Sturge I. from a 

 considerable distance, thought it a group of three 

 islands and named the southernmost Smyth 

 Island, after his friend Capt. William Henry 

 Smyth, RN, Pres. of the Royal Astronomical Soc. 

 Ross' error was discovered in 1904 by Capt. Robert 

 F. Scott, who applied the name to the southern- 

 most point on Sturge Island. 



Smyth Inlet: see Smith Inlet. 



SNEDEKER GLACIER: channel glacier about 5 

 mi. wide and 10 mi. long, flowing NNE. from the 

 continental ice to Knox Coast, about 6 mi. E. of 

 DuBeau Gl.; in about 66°28'S., 106°30'E. Deline- 

 ated from aerial photographs taken by USN Op. 

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

 Robert H. Snedeker, photo interpreter with USN 



Op. Wml., 1947-48, who assisted in establishing 

 astronomical control stations along the coast from 

 Wilhelm II Coast to Budd Coast. 



SNIPE PEAK: peak, about 740 ft. in el., which 

 is the main peak on Moe I., situated close SW. of 

 Signy I. in the South Orkney Is.; in 60°45'S., 

 45°41'W. Surveyed in 1933 by DI personnel. Re- 

 surveyed in 1947 by the FIDS, and so named by 

 them after H.M.S. Snipe, under Cdr. J. G. Forbes, 

 RN, which visited Signy I. on Feb. 7, 1948. 



SNOW HILL: snow-covered peak about 800 ft. 

 in el., about 0.3 mi. W. of the S. part of Borge Bay, 

 in the east-central part of Signy I., in the South 

 Orkney Is.; in 60°43'S., 45°37'W. Charted and 

 named by DI personnel on the Discovery II in 1933. 



SNOW HILL ISLAND: an almost completely 

 snow-capped island, about 20 mi. long, in a NE.- 

 SW. direction, and 6 mi. wide, lying immediately 

 SE. of James Ross I., from which it is separated by 

 Admiralty Sound, and S. of the NE. end of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 64°28'S., 57°12'W. It was disc, on Jan. 6, 

 1843 by a Br. exp. under Ross who, thinking it a 

 part of the mainland, named it Snow Hill because 

 its snow cover stood out in contrast to the bare 

 ground of nearby Seymour Island. Its insular 

 character was determined in 1902 by the SwedAE 

 under Nordenskjold. 



SNOW ISLAND: a completely ice-covered island 

 about 11 mi. long and 8 mi. wide, lying about 5 mi. 

 S. of Livingston I., in the South Shetland Is.; in 

 62°45'S., 61°23'W. This island was known to both 

 the American sealers and the British as early as 

 1820, and the name Snow has been well established 

 in international usage for over 100 years. Not 

 adopted: Basil Halls Island, Monroe Island, Snow 

 Isle. 



Snow Nunataks: see Ashley Snow Nunataks. 



SNOW PEAK: conspicuous, snow-covered peak 

 about 2,700 ft. in el., about 2 mi. ESE. of Cape 

 Pride, on the N. coast of South Georgia; in 54°01'S., 

 37°57'W. Charted and named by DI personnel in 

 the period 1926-27. 



SNOWY POINT: point forming the SE. end of 

 the small plateau lying W. of Campbell Gl., in Vic- 

 toria Land; in about 74°45'S., 163°43'E. Charted 

 and named by the Northern Party of the BrAE 

 under Scott, 1910-13. 



SNYDER ROCKS: small group of coastal rocks 

 projecting above the continental ice, fronting on 

 Knox Coast at the N. end of the ice-covered escarp- 

 ment along the W. side of Underwood GL; in about 

 66°37'S., 107°53'W. Delineated from aerial photo- 



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