GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



the BelgAE, 1897-99, under De Gerlache. Not 

 adopted: Van Ryswycke Point. 



Vanssay, Point de: see Vanssay Point. 



VANSSAY POINT: extremity of a small penin- 

 sula which extends N. into the W. portion of Port 

 Charcot, lying about 0.25 mi. NW. of Mt. Jeanne 

 in the N. part of Booth I., off the W. coast of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 65°03'S., 64°01'W. Disc, by the 

 FrAE, 1903-5, under Charcot, and named by him 

 for Monsieur De Vassay de Blavous. Not adopted: 

 Point de Vanssay. 



VAN VALKENBURG, MOUNT: mountain in the 

 S. part of the Clark Mtns., at the edge of the 

 Rockefeller Plateau in Marie Byrd Land; in about 

 77°18'S., 141°59'W. Disc, on aerial flights from 

 the West Base of the US AS in 1940 and named for 

 Prof. Samuel Van Valkenburg, Dir. of the School 

 of Geography of Clark University. 



Van Wyck Island: see Wyck Island. 



VARTDAL, MOUNT: snow-capped peak about 

 5,300 ft. in el., surmounting and forming part of 

 the plateau escarpment along the E. coast of 

 Palmer Pen., about 4 mi. NE. of Karpf Pt. on the 

 N. side of Mill Inlet; in 66°51'S., 64°23'W. Charted 

 by the FIDS in 1947 and named for Hroar Vartdal, 

 Norwegian polar bibliographer. This feature was 

 photographed from the air during 1947 by the 

 RARE under Ronne. 



VAUGHAN, MOUNT: peak about 8,200 ft. in el., 

 standing between Mounts Goodale and Crockett 

 in the Will Hays Mtns., which lie between Amund- 

 sen and Robert Scott Glaciers in the Queen Maud 

 Range; in about 85°58'S., 155°10'W. Disc, by the 

 Geological Party of the ByrdAE, 1928-30, and 

 named for Norman D. Vaughan, dog driver for 

 the geological party. Not adopted: Mount 

 Vaughn. 



Vaughn, Mount: see Vaughan, Moimt. 



VAURfiAL, CAPE: cape about 1 mi. WNW. of 

 Cape Syrezol, at the E. side of the entrance to Ad- 

 miralty Bay, in the South Shetland Is.; in 62°10'S., 

 58°19'W. Charted and probably named by the 

 FrAE, 1908-10, under Charcot. Not adopted: Cape 

 Vaureal. 



Veddels: see Weddell Islands. 



VEDEL ISLETS: group of islets in the Danne- 

 brog Is., lying about 3 mi. W. of Hovgaard I., off 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 65°08'S., 64°15'W. 

 The largest islet of this group was disc, in 1898 

 and given the name Vadel by the BelgAE under 



De Gerlache. Dr. Jean B. Charcot charted the 

 remaining islets in 1904, and again in 1909 when 

 he extended the name Vedel to include the entire 

 islet group. Not adopted: Vedel Islands, Wedel 

 Islands. 



VEGA ISLAND: island some 17 mi. long, in an 

 E.-W. direction, and about 6 mi. wide, which is 

 the northernmost of the James Ross I. group and 

 lies in the W. part of Erebus and Terror Gulf; in 

 about 63°50'S., 57°25'W. It is separated from 

 James Ross I. by Sidney Herbert Sound and from 

 the NE. end of Palmer Pen. by Prince Gustav 

 Channel. The island was named by Dr. Otto 

 Nordenskjold, leader of the SwedAE, 1901-4, ap- 

 parently for the ship Vega used by his uncle. Baron 

 A. E. Nordenskiold, in making the first voyage 

 through the Northeast Passage, 1878-79. 



VEGETATION ISLAND: narrow island about 1 

 mi. long, lying N. of Inexpressible I. and W. of 

 Mt. Abbott peninsula, along the coast of Victoria 

 Land; in about 74°55'S., 163°39'E. Disc, by the 

 Northern Party of the BrAE under Scott, 1910-13, 

 and probably so named by them because of the 

 lichens found on this island. Not adopted: Lichen 

 Island. 



Veier Island: see Jason Island. 



VEITCH POINT: point situated centrally along 

 the NE. end of Monroe I., off the W. end of Corona- 

 tion I., in the South Orkney Is.; in 60°36'S., 

 46°03'W. The point was charted in 1933 by DI 

 personnel on the Discovery II, and named for 

 R. S. Veitch, sounding machine technician of the 

 ship. 



VfiLAIN, MOUNT: moimtain with an isolated, 

 black triangular summit showing through its snow 

 mantle, about 2,300 ft. in el., standing in the NE. 

 end of Adelaide I.; in about 66°49'S., 67°51'W. 

 This mountain may have been seen by John Bis- 

 coe, who disc. Adelaide I. in 1832. First charted 

 and named by the FrAE, 1903-5, xmder Charcot, 

 for Charles Velain, French geologist and geog- 

 rapher, and professor of physical geography at 

 the Sor bonne. Not adopted: Mount Velain, Velain 

 Peak. 



VENUS GLACIER: glacier on the E. coast of 

 Alexander I Island, about 6 mi. long and 6 mi. 

 wide at its mouth, flowing E. into George VI Soimd 

 between Keystone Cliffs and Triton Pt.; in 71°38'S., 

 68°12'W. The coast in this vicinity was flrst 

 explored from the air and partially photographed 

 by Lincoln Ellsworth, on Nov. 23, 1935, and was 

 roughly surveyed from the ground in 1936 by the 

 BGLE under Rymill. This glacier was first sur- 



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