GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Palmer Pen.; in 68°11'S., 67°00'W. This islet, 2,500 

 ft. from NW. to SE. and 1,000 ft. wide, is connected 

 by a drifted snow slope to Northeast Glacier on the 

 mainland. It was chosen as the site for the East 

 Base of the USAS, 1939-41, and named after 

 Stonington, Conn., home port of the sloop Hero, 

 in which Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer first sighted 

 the Antarctic continent in 1820. 



STORE POINT: northernmost point of Neny I., 

 lying in Marguerite Bay off the W. coast of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 68°12'S., 67°02'W. Surveyed in 1947 by 

 the FIDS, who so named it because FIDS main- 

 tained an emergency food store on this point. 



STORER REEF: an isolated reef lying about 3 

 mi. SE. of Aspasia Pt. and about 1.5 mi. off the S. 

 coast of South Georgia; in 54°22'S., 37°04'W. 

 Named by the Br-APC, following mapping by the 

 SGS, 1951-52, for Capt. Nathaniel Storer of New 

 Haven, Conn., who in 1801 built a small schooner 

 on the coast of Patagonia, sailed her to South 

 Georgia, and spent two seasons taking 45,000 fur 

 seal skins. 



STOR HANAKKEN MOUNTAIN: prominent 

 mountain about 6,400 ft. in el., standing in the 

 central part of the Napier Mtns. in Enderby Land; 

 in about 66°33'S., 53°30'E. The mountain was 

 charted from aerial photographs taken in January- 

 February 1937 by members of a Nor. exp. under 

 Christensen and named "Stor Hanakken," prob- 

 ably by H. E. Hansen, cartographer of the expedi- 

 tion. Not adopted: Great Hanakken, Stor Hanak- 

 ken [Norwegian]. 



Strachans Island: see Nelson Island. 



STRAHAN GLACIER: glacier on Mac-Robertson 

 Coast, lying midway between Cape Daly and Cape 

 Fletcher; in about 67°39'S., 64°44'E. Disc, and 

 named by the BANZARE, 1929-31, under Mawson. 



Stranded Moraines: see Strand Moraines, The. 



STRAND MORAINES, THE: moraines, about 3 

 mi. long and reaching elevations of 100 to 150 ft., 

 deposited at the edge of the piedmont ice on the 

 W. shore of McMurdo Sound, about 6 mi. SSE. 

 of New Hbr., in Victoria Land; in about 77°34'S., 

 164°26'E. Disc, by the BrNAE, 1901-4, under Scott, 

 who first named this feature "The Eskers," later 

 learning its true nature. Not adopted: Eskers, 

 Stranded Moraines, Strand Moraines, The Eskers, 

 The Stranded Moraines. 



STRATHCONA, MOUNT: massive mountain 

 about 4,000 ft. in el., which is surmounted by a 

 prominent group of peaks which rise above the 

 continental ice along the W. side of middle reaches 



of Denman Gl., standing about 12 mi. S. of Mt. 

 Barr Smith on Queen Mary Coast; in about 

 67°22'S., 98°58'E. Disc, by the AAE under Maw- 

 son, 1911-14, and named for Lord Strathcona, 

 High Commissioner for Canada in 1911 and a 

 patron of the expedition. 



STRIPED HILL: small, ice-free hill, about 300 

 ft. in el., on the SE. side of Louis Philippe Pen., 

 some 7 mi. NNW. of Cape Lachman, the N. tip of 

 James Ross I.; in 63°40'S., 57°53'W. Charted and 

 named by the FIDS, 1946. The name is descrip- 

 tive and is derived from the stratifications on a 

 small cliff on the seaward side of the hill. 



STROM GLACIER: steep valley glacier flowing 

 NE. from the N. side of Mt. Fridtjof Nansen to 

 the head of the Ross Ice Shelf, flanked on the NW. 

 by the Duncan Mtns. and on the SE. by the 

 mountainous ridge terminating in Mt. Betty; in 

 about 85°12'S., 165°15'W. The glacier derives its 

 name from "Strom Camp" near its foot, occupied 

 at various times during December 1929 by the 

 ByrdAE geological party under Gould. Strom 

 Camp was named by that party for Sverre Strom, 

 first mate of the exp. ship City of New York, who 

 remained ashore as a member of the winter party 

 and headed the snowmobile party which hauled 

 supplies in support of the two field parties. 



Stromnes Bay; Stromnes Bucht: see Stromness 

 Bay. 



STROMNESS BAY: bay about 3 mi. wide, lying 

 about 3 mi. W. of Cumberland Bay along the N. 

 coast of South Georgia; in 54°09'S., 36°38'W. This 

 bay was probably first seen in 1775 by Capt. James 

 Cook. Named prior to 1912, probably by whalers 

 who frequented its harbors. Not adopted: Sorrow- 

 ness Bay, Stromnes Bucht [German], Stromnes 

 Bay. 



STROMNESS HARBOR: central of three harbors 

 in the W. side of Stromness Bay, South Georgia; 

 in 54°09'S., 36°41'W. This harbor was shown as 

 Nansen Harbour on some early charts, but since 

 about 1920 the name Stromness Harbor has been 

 consistently used. Not adopted: Fridtjof Nansen 

 Haf en [German] , Nansen Harbour. 



Stuart Doyle Point: see Doyle Point. 



STUART POINT: ice-covered point on the head- 

 land at the E. side of the entrance to Maury Bay, 

 on Banzare Coast; in about 66°20'S., 125°35'E. De- 

 lineated from aerial photographs taken by USN 

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

 for Frederick D. Stuart, captains clerk on the 

 sloop of war Peacock of the USEE under Wilkes, 

 1838-42, who assisted Wilkes with correction of 

 the survey data obtained *by the expedition. 



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