GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



SPIEDEN, CAPE: cape marking the NE. end of 

 a low, ice-covered ridge separating Holmes Gl., on 

 the SE., and a small glacier, on the NW., which 

 terminates in a prominent tongue close E. of Cape 

 Goodenough, fronting on Porpoise Bay, on Ban- 

 zare Coast; in about 66°20'S., 127°00'E. Delineated 

 from aerial photographs taken by USN Op. Hjp., 

 1946-47, and named by the US-ACAN for William 

 Spieden, purser on the sloop of war Peacock of 

 the USEE under Wilkes, 1838-42. 



SPIESS PEAK: peak about 12,100 ft. in el., in 

 New Schwabenland; in about 72°55'S., 3°50'W. 

 Disc, by the GerAE under Ritscher, 1938-39, and 

 named for R. Adm. F. A. Spiess, oceanographer, 

 leader of the Meteor exp. of 1925-26, and Dir. of the 

 Deutsche Seewarte (German Hydrographic Office) 

 in Hamburg. Not adopted: Speiss Peak. 



SPIKE CAPE: bare rocky point lying about 6 mi. 

 S. of Dunlop I. and 13 mi. N. of Cape Bernacchi, 

 in front of the Wilson Piedmont Glacier along 

 the coast of Victoria Land; in about 77°18'S., 

 163°34'E. First charted by the BrAE, 1910-13, 

 under Scott. Probably so named because of its 

 appearance. Not adopted: Spike Point. 



SPINDRIFT ROCKS: group of ice-free rocks, 

 about 50 ft. in el., lying 0.75 mi. SW. of North Pt., 

 and close to the W. coast of Signy I., South Orkney 

 Is.; in 60°42'S., 45°40'W. Surveyed and named in 

 1947 by the FIDS. The name is descriptive of the 

 spindrift, or sea spray, which forms over these 

 rocks during westerly gales. 



SPINE ISLET: narrow islet composed of sev- 

 eral aligned rock segments, lying between the W. 

 end of Coronation I. and Monroe I., in the South 

 Orkney Is.; in 60°36'S., 46°02'W. The islet was 

 roughly charted by Capt. George Powell and Capt. 

 Nathaniel B. Palmer in 1821. It was so named 

 because of its appearance by DI personnel on the 

 Discovery II, who charted the islet in 1933. Not 

 adopted: Spine Island. 



SPIRE, THE: isolated rock pinnacle at the NW. 

 end of the Blackwall Mtns. on the S. side of Neny 

 Fjord, Palmer Pen.; in 68°18'S., 66°53'W. Prob- 

 ably first seen by BGLE sledging parties in 1936-37, 

 though not specifically mapped. First climbed on 

 Jan. 17, 1948 by members of FIDS and RARE. 

 The name, The Spire, was first used in 1949 by 

 William Latady, aerial photographer with RARE. 

 Not adopted: Needle, Pinnacle, Sanctuary Pin- 

 nacle, The Needle. 



SPIT BAY: an open bight formed by the NE. 

 coastline of Heard I. and Spit Pt., the E. extremity 

 of the island; in 53°06'S., 73°45'E. The name 

 derives from the conspicuous spit which forms the 



S. and E. shore of the bight, and was applied by 

 American sealers at Heard I. in the period fol- 

 lowing their initiation of sealing there in 1855. 

 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. 



SPIT POINT: the E. tip of a conspicuous spit, 

 about 4 mi. long and averaging about 0.25 mi. 

 wide, which marks the E. extremity of Heard I.; 

 in 53°07'S., 73°51'E. The feature was roughly 

 charted by Br. exp. under Nares which visited the 

 island in the Challenger in 1874. The descriptive 

 name was apparently given some years later and 

 is now well established in usage. The spit was 

 surveyed by the ANARE in 1948. 



SPIT POINT: narrow gravel spit forming the S. 

 side of the entrance to Yankee Hbr., Greenwich I., 

 in the South Shetland Is.; in 62°32'S., 59°48'W. 

 Yankee Hbr. was known to American and British 

 sealers as early as 1820. Spit Point was charted 

 by DI personnel on the Discovery II in 1935 and 

 given this descriptive name. 



SPIT POINT: a spit forming the N. tip of 

 Candlemas I., in the South Sandwich Is.; in 

 57°01'S., 26°40'W. Charted and named by DI per- 

 sonnel on the Discovery II in 1930. 



SPIVEY, MOUNT: fiat-topped, mainly ice-cov- 

 ered mountain, about 7,000 ft. in el., standing on 

 the W. side of Toynbee Gl., and 9 mi. S. of Mt. 

 Nicholas, in the N. part of the Douglas Range of 

 Alexander I Island; in 69°31'S., 69°50'W. First 

 photographed from the air in 1937 by the BGLE 

 under Rymill. Surveyed from the ground in 1948 

 by the FIDS, and named for Robert E. Spivey, 

 general assistant at Stonington I., who took part 

 in the FIDS sledge journey to George VI Sound 

 in 1949. 



SPRING, CAPE: point forming the S. side of 

 the entrance to Brialmont Cove, on the W. coast 

 of Palmer Pen.; in 64°15'S., 61°11'W. Disc, in 

 1898 by the BelgAE under De Gerlache, and named 

 for Prof. W. Spring, of the Univ. of Liege, a mem- 

 ber of the Belgica Commission. Not adopted: 

 Cape W. Spring. 



SPUR POINT: point at the E. end of a black, 

 rocky spur which extends SE. from a highland 

 at the S. side of Sleipnir Gl. to the W. side of 

 Cabinet Inlet, on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; 

 in 66°36'S., 63°48'W. This descriptive name was 

 given by the FIDS following their survey in 1947. 

 The feature was photographed from the air during 

 1947 by the RARE under Ronne. 



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