GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



South Shetland, Shetland Islands, South Shet- 

 land, Siid-Shetland Inseln [German], Sydshet- 

 land [Norwegian]. 



South Victoria Land: see Victoria Land. 



SOUTH WEST POINT: the southwest point of 

 Annenkov I., off the south-central coast of South 

 Georgia; in 54°30'S., 37°06'W. Annenkov I. was 

 disc, by Capt. James Cook in 1775, and re-sighted 

 by Adm. Thaddeus Bellingshausen in 1819. The 

 point appears to be first named on a chart based 

 upon DI surveys undertaken in the period 1926-30. 

 Not adopted: S. W. Point. 



SPA YD ISLAND : ice-covered island with promi- 

 nent rock exposures, about 1 mi. long and 0.5 mi. 

 wide, protruding above the main flow of Baker 

 Three Gl. about 0.3 mi. SE. of the S. end of Gil- 

 lock I., lying close W. of Ingrid Christensen Coast 

 at the head of Amery Ice Shelf; in about 70°21'S., 

 71°11'E. Delineated in 1952 by John H. Roscoe 

 from aerial photographs taken by USN Op. Hjp. 

 in March 1947, and named by him for A. W. Spayd, 

 air crewman on USN Op Hjp. photographic flights 

 in this area and other coastal areas between 14° 

 and 164°, east longitude. Not adopted: Spayd 

 Outlier. 



Spayd Outlier: see Spayd Island. 



Speiss Peak: see Spiess Peak. 



SPENCE HARBOR: small bay about 1.5 mi. S. 

 of The Turret, along the E. coast of Coronation I., 

 in the South Orkney Is.; in 60°42'S., 45°10'W. 

 Disc, in December 1821 by Capt. George Powell, 

 a British sealer in the sloop Dove, who named the 

 bay, and Capt. Nathaniel Palmer, an American 

 sealer in the sloop James Monroe. Not adopted: 

 Spence's Harbor. 



SPENCER, CAPE : cape lying about 10 mi. W. of 

 Buckley Bay and forming the E. corner of the 

 depression occupied by the Ninnis Gl., on George 

 V Coast; in about 68°23'S., 147°30'E. Disc, in 

 1912 by the AAE, 1911-14, under Mawson, who 

 named this point for Sir Baldwin Spencer, Dir. 

 of the National Museum of Melbourne in 1911. 



SPENCER, MOUNT: peak in the Allegheny 

 Mtns., in the E. part of the Edsel Ford Ranges 

 in Marie Byrd Land; in about 77°17'S., 143°13'W. 

 Disc, on aerial flights made from West Base of 

 the USAS in 1940 and named for Herbert R. 

 Spencer, of Erie, Pa., the sea scout commander 

 of Paul Siple, leader of the West Base party of 

 that expedition. 



Spencers Straits: see English Strait; Lewthwaite 

 Strait. 



SPERM BLUFF: dark bluff about 4,000 ft. in 

 el., standing at the N. side of Cotton Gl. about 2 

 mi. SW. of Mt. Suess, in Victoria Land; in about 

 77°04'S., 161°42'E. The bluff, which protrudes 

 about 1,500 ft. above the ice, is essentially fiat in 

 the central portion, but tapers eastward ending 

 in a low rounded spur. Charted and named by 

 the BrAE, 1910-13, under Scott. When viewed 

 from the E., the N. face of the bluff suggests the 

 blunt head of the sperm whale. 



SPERRING POINT: rocky point about midway 

 along the W. side of William Scoresby Bay, on Mac- 

 Robertson Coast; in about 67°25'S., 59°33'E. 

 Named by personnel on the William Scoresby who 

 charted this area in February 1936. 



SPEYER, MOUNT: mountain, about 8,900 ft. 

 in el., lying between Mt. Harmsworth and Mt. 

 Dawson-Lambton in the Worcester Range, and 

 surmounting the W. side of Moore Embayment, 

 on the W. side of Ross Ice Shelf; in about 78°45'S., 

 160°20'E. Disc, by the BrNAE, 1901-4, under Scott, 

 who named this feature for Sir Edgar Speyer, a 

 contributor to the expedition. 



Sphinx: see Beehive Hill. 



SPHINX HILL: conspicuous, isolated black hill, 

 standing 1.5 mi. NNW. of Demay Pt. on King 

 George I., South Shetland Is.; in 62°11'S., 58°27'W. 

 First charted by the FrAE under Charcot, 1908-10. 

 The descriptive name was given by the Br-APC fol- 

 lowing a survey by Lt. Cdr. F. W. Hunt, RN, in 

 1951-52. 



SPHINX ISLAND: island about 2 mi. long, in 

 a NW.-SE. direction, and 0.5 mi. wide, having a 

 bare rocky summit with vertical faces on all four 

 sides, lying in the SW. half of the entrance to 

 Barilari Bay, off the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 65°53'S., 64°52'W. Disc, and named by the 

 BGLE, 1934-37, under Rymill. 



SPHINX ROCK: rock which lies immediately 

 off the SW. end of Monroe I., in the South Orkney 

 Is.; in 60°37'S., 46°05'W. Charted and named by 

 DI personnel on the Discovery II In 1933. 



SPHINX ROCK: rock about 170 ft. in el. lying 

 in front of Islands Point, along , the W. side of 

 Robertson Bay, in northern Victoria Land; in 

 about 71°28'S., 169°28'E. Charted and named in 

 1911 by the Northern Party of the BrAE, 1910-13, 

 under Scott. 



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