GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



ing a survey of the island by Lt. Cdr. D. N. Penfold, 

 RN, in 1948-49. 



Southern Escarpments: see S0r Rondane Moun- 

 tains. 



Southern Foothills: see Inexpressible Island. 



SOUTHERN THULE : group of islands consisting 

 of Thule, Cook, and Bellingshausen Islands, at the 

 S. end of the South Sandwich Is.; in 59°26'S., 

 27°12'W. Southern Thule was named by Capt. 

 James Cook, who disc, and roughly outlined its 

 northern portions in 1775. Adm. Thaddeus Bel- 

 lingshausen's report, published about 1831, stating 

 that Southern Thule consists of one high rock and 

 three small islands, was confirmed in a survey by 

 DI personnel on the Discovery II in 1930. Not 

 adopted: Southern Thule Group. 



Southern Thule Island: see Thule Island. 



South Foreland: see Melville, Cape. 



SOUTH GEORGIA: island about 105 mi. long 

 and 20 mi. wide, with steep glaciated mountains 

 and deeply indented coasts, extending" in a 

 NW.-SE. arc between about 54°00'S. and 54°55'S., 

 and 35°45'W. and 38°05'W. It is generally ac- 

 cepted that -South Georgia may have been sighted 

 by Antonio de la Roche sailing an English mer- 

 chant vessel in 1675, and by the Spanish ship 

 Leon in 1756. The island was explored and 

 roughly charted by Capt. James Cook in the Reso- 

 lution in January 1775, and named for King 

 George III of Great Britain. The S. coast was 

 first explored and charted by a Russ. exp. under 

 Bellingshausen in 1819. Substantial additional 

 mapping was accomplished by sealers, whalers and 

 private expeditions. The coastal areas were 

 roughly surveyed by DI personnel in the period 

 1925-30. The SGS continued the surveys, includ- 

 ing inland areas, in 1951-52 and 1953-54. Not 

 adopted: Isla Georgia Del Sur [Spanish], Isle of 

 Georgia, South Georgia Island, Siid-Georgien 

 [German] . 



SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS: a group of two 

 larger and several smaller mountainous barren 

 islands covered with ice and snow and surrounded 

 by many rocks, lying NE. of Palmer Pen. between 

 60°20'S. and 60°50'S., and 44°20'W. and 46°45'W. 

 Disc, on the occasion of the joint cruise by Capt. 

 George Powell, a British sealer in the sloop Dove, 

 and Capt. Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer 

 in the sloop James Monroe, in December 1821. The 

 islands were named Powell's Group on Powell's 

 chart, published in England, Nov. 1, 1822. The 

 islands were explored and roughly recharted by 

 James Weddell, Master, RN, who as a British seal- 



ing captain visited them in 1823. Weddell's chart 

 carried the name South Orkney Islands, which 

 became accepted internationally. Subsequent 

 charts of the islands were published by the Fr. 

 exp. under D'Urville, 1837-iO, and by the Nor- 

 wegian whaling captain Petter S0rlle, 1912-13. 

 A running survey of the islands was completed 

 in 1933 by DI personnel on the Discovery II. Fur- 

 ther surveys were made by the FIDS in the period 

 1947-50. Not adopted: Powell Group, Powell 

 Islands, Powell's Group, Sud-Orkney Inseln [Ger- 

 man]. 



SOUTH POINT: point about 1.4 mi. SW. of 

 Entrance Pt., marking the southernmost point of 

 Deception I., in the South Shetland Is.; in 63°01'S., 

 60°37'W. The point was charted by a Br. exp., 

 1828-31, under Foster. The name was proposed 

 in 1949 by the Hydrographic Dept., Admiralty, fol- 

 lowing a survey of the island by Lt. Cdr. D. N. 

 Penfold, RN, in 1948-49. 



SOUTH POINT: point marking the S. end of 

 Moe I., about 0.2 mi. SW. of Signy I., in the South 

 Orkney Is.; in 60°45'S., 45°41'W. Named by DI 

 personnel on the Discovery II, who charted the 

 South Orkney Is. in 1933. 



South Point: see South Cape. 



South Sandwich Group: see South Sandwich 

 Islands. 



SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS: chain of vol- 

 canic islands lying N. of Weddell Sea; extending 

 from 56°18'S. to 59°27'S., in aboUt 26°30'W. Disc, 

 and first roughly charted on Jan. 31, 1775 by Capt. 

 James Cook, who gave them the name "Sandwich 

 Land," for the fourth Earl of Sandwich, then First 

 Lord of the Admiralty. Cook concluded that he 

 had charted a group of islands or else a point of 

 a continent. The islands were first roughly sur- 

 veyed by Adm. Thaddeus Bellingshausen in 1819. 

 The Traverse Islands, three islands forming the 

 N. end of the chain, were not sighted by Cook but 

 were disc, and first mapped by Bellingshausen in 

 1819. The South Sandwich Islands were surveyed 

 by DI personnel on the Discovery II in 1930. Not 

 adopted: Sandwich Group, Sandwich Islands, 

 Sandwich Land, South Sandwich Group, Siid- 

 Sandwich Inseln [German]. 



SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS: group of islands 

 lying N. of Palmer Pen. between 61°S. and 63°S., 

 and extending about 280 mi. in an ENE.-WNW. 

 direction between 54°W. and 63°W. Named by 

 Capt. William Smith of the brig Williams in 1819 

 while cruising close to the N. edge of the islands. 

 Not adopted: lies Shetland du Sud [French], New 



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