GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



veyed in 1949 by the FIDS, and named by them 

 after the planet Venus. 



VERDANT ISLET: islet about 1 mi. E. of the 

 NE. end of Main I., in the Willis Is. at South 

 Georgia; in 54°00'S., 38°13'W. Charted and named 

 by DI personnel in the period 1926-30. Not 

 adopted: Verdant Island. 



VERNE, MOUNT: mountain, about 5,400 ft. in 

 el., standing about 6.5 mi. E. of Cape Bongrain 

 and dominating the S. part of Pourquoi Pas I., off 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 67°45'S., 67°29'W. 

 First sighted and roughly surveyed ii; 1909 by the 

 FrAE under Charcot. Resurveyed in 1948 by the 

 FIDS, and named by them for Jules Verne, author 

 of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. 

 Other features on Pourquoi Pas I. are named after 

 characters in this book. 



VERNON HARCOURT, MOUNT: conical peak 

 standing N. of Mt. Northampton in the Admiralty 

 Range, in northern Victoria Land; in about 

 72°32'S., 169°10'E. Disc, in January 1841 by a 

 Br. exp. under Ross, who named this feature for 

 the Reverend W. Vernon Harcourt, one of the 

 founders of the British Association. 



VER-SUR-MER INLET: small inlet in the E. 

 portion of the Bay of Whales, indenting Ross Ice 

 Shelf; in about 78°40'S., 164°10'W. Little Amer- 

 ica, the base for the ByrdAE, 1928-30 and 1933-35, 

 was located at the head of this inlet. Although 

 forward movement of the ice shelf is constantly 

 changing the detailed configuration of the Bay 

 of Whales, the general outlines remain essentially 

 unchanged. Named by R. Adm. Richard E. Byrd 

 in 1929 for the village in France where he landed 

 at the end of his trans-Atlantic flight in 1927. 



VERTE ISLET: small rocky islet, lying about 

 1 mi. N. of Double Its. and about 1.5 mi. ENE. of 

 the tip of Zelee Glacier Tongue, off Adelie Coast; 

 in about 66°44'S., 141°11'E. Photographed from 

 the air by USN Op. Hjp., 1946-47. Charted by the 

 FrAE under Liotard, 1949-51, and so named be- 

 cause of its greenish appearance. Verte is the 

 French word for green. 



Veslekulten: see Hayes Peak. 



VESTFOLD HILLS: barren, rounded hills, from 

 150 to 450 ft. in el., extending about 15 mi. NNE. 

 from the N. side of S0rsdal Glacier Tongue, situ- 

 ated on Ingrid Christensen Coast and marked by 

 three small peninsulas which extend W. into Prydz 

 Bay; in about 68°33'S., 78°15'E. Disc, and named 

 by the Nor. exp. under Mikkelsen, who landed in 

 this area at the reported position of about 68°29'S., 

 78°11'E. Vestfold is a county in Norway where 



Sandefjord, headquarters of the whaling industry, 

 is located. Not adopted: Vestfold Mountains. 



Vestfold Mountains: see Vestfold Hills. 



Vestskotet: see West Stack. 



VICARS ISLAND: island lying about 10 mi. E. 

 of Proclamation I. and about 5 mi. of? the coast 

 of Enderby Land; in about 65°50'S., 54°15'E. 

 Disc, and named in January 1930 by the BANZARE 

 under Mawson. 



VICTOR BAY: bay about 16 mi. wide and 7 mi. 

 long, indenting the W. end of Adelie Coast close 

 W. of Mathieu Rock, and marked by an extensive 

 chain of icebergs breaking away from the high 

 tongue of Commandant Charcot Gl. at the SE. 

 side of the bay; in 66°20'S., 136°30'E. Delineated 

 from aerial photographs taken by USN Op. Hjp., 

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

 l^mile Victor, Director of the Expeditions Polaires 

 Frangaises, who organized E.P.F. expeditions to 

 Greenland in 1948-51 and Antarctica in 1948-53 

 and 1955-56. Victor served as leader of French 

 expeditions to Greenland in 1934-35 and 1936-37, 

 and as leader of the summer parties of the E.P.F. 

 Greenland operations. 



VICTOR HUGO ISLAND: ice-covered island, 

 about 1 mi. in extent, with several rocky islets 

 and pinnacles off its E. side, lying in the W. 

 approach to Bismarck Str. and some 42 mi. WSW. 

 of Cape Albert de Monaco, An vers I.; in about 

 64°58'S., 65°46'W. Probably disc, by C. J. Even- 

 sen, captain of the Hertha, who explored along 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen. in 1893, because an 

 unnamed island of similar extent and location first 

 appeared on the charts at that time. The island 

 was sighted by the FrAE, 1903-5, under Charcot, 

 who named it for the French poet and novelist 

 Victor Hugo. 



VICTORIA, MOUNT: snow-covered peak about 

 2,500 ft. in el., situated about 2 mi. E. of Mt. 

 Bulcke in southern Brabant I., in the Palmer 

 Arch.; in 64°30'S., 62°35'W. First seen and photo- 

 graphed by the BelgAE, 1897-99, under De Ger- 

 lache. The name seems to have first appeared on 

 charts in about 1921 and has since become estab- 

 lished through common usage. 



VICTORIA LAND: that part of Antarctica which 

 fronts on the W. side of the Ross Sea, extending 

 northward from about 78°00'S. to 70°30'S., in 

 about 164°00'E. Disc, in 1841 by a Br. exp. under 

 Ross, and named for Queen Victoria. Not adopted : 

 South Victoria Land, Syd Victoria Land [Nor- 

 wegian] . 



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