GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



VICTORY GLACIER: gently sloping glacier, 

 about 8 mi. long, flowing ESE. from the N. end 

 of the Detroit Plateau on Louis Philippe Pen. and 

 opening on Prince Gustav Chan, immediately N. 

 of Pitt Pt.; in 63°49'S., 58°25'W. Disc, by the 

 FIDS, who so named it because the discovery was 

 made in the week following the surrender of Japan 

 in World War II, in August 1945. 



VIEUGUE ISLAND: island about 3 mi. long 

 and about 1,000 ft. in el., lying in Grandidier 

 Chan, about 1 mi. NW. of Duchaylard I. and some 

 14 mi. WNW. of Cape Garcia, off the W. coast of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 65°40'S., 65°13'W. Disc, by the 

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

 for Monsieur Vieugue, then French Charge d 'Af- 

 faires at Buenos Aires. Not adopted: Vieugue 

 Island. 



VlfiVILLE GLACIER: glacier lying between 

 Cape Vaureal and Point Hennequin and terminat- 

 ing in Admiralty Bay, on King George I., in the 

 South Shetland Is.; in 62°08'S., 58°20'W. Vieville 

 Glacier was charted and named by the FrAE, 

 1908-10, under Charcot. 



VIEW POINT: eastern tip of a promontory, 

 about 500 ft. in el., forming the W. side of the 

 entrance to Duse Bay, near the NE. end of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 63°33'S., 57°22'W. Disc, by a party under 

 J. Gunnar Andersson of the SwedAE, 1901-4. So 

 named by the FIDS following their survey of the 

 area in 1945, because from this promontory, good 

 panoramic photographs were obtained. 



VIK, CAPE: cape marking the W. side of the 

 entrance to Marshall Bay on the S. coast of Coro- 

 nation I., in the South Orkney Is.; in 60°40'S., 

 45°41'W. The cape appears to be first shown and 

 named on a chart made by the Norwegian whaler 

 Capt. Petter S0rlle in 1912-13. 



VINCENNES BAY: large, V-shaped bay, about 

 65 mi. wide at its entrance between Cape Nutt 

 and Cape Folger, marked by several large, steep 

 glaciers near its head, lying between Knox and 

 Budd Coasts; in about 66°35'S., 109°00'E. Photo- 

 graphed from the air by USN Op. Hjp., 1946-47. 

 The bay was entered in January 1948 by USN Op. 

 Wml. icebreakers Burton Island and Edisto which 

 assisted in establishing astronomical stations in 

 the Windmill Is. in the NE. portion of the bay. 

 Named by the US-ACAN for the sloop of war 

 Vincennes, flagship of the USEE under Wilkes, 

 from which a- series of coastal landfalls along 

 Wilkes Land were disc, and plotted during Janu- 

 ary-February 1840. Wilkes' chari suggests a pos- 

 sible coastal recession corresponding closely with 

 the longitudinal limits for Vincennes Bay, al- 



though pack ice conditions prevented close recon- 

 naissance by the USEE of the coast in this imme- 

 diate area. Not adopted: Kreitzer Bay. 



Vincent Astor, Mount: see Astor, Mount. 



Vincent Gutenko Mountains: see Gutenko Moun- 

 tains. 



VINDICATION ISLAND: island about 1 mi. in 

 diameter, lying about 2 mi. SW. of Candlemas I. 

 in the South Sandwich Is.; in 57°04'S., 26°46'W. 

 Vindication Island was disc, in 1775 by Capt. 

 James Cook, who reported it to be one of the two 

 Candlemas Islands. Reports indicating that the 

 Candlemas Islands contained three islands or a 

 single island for many years overshadowed Cook's 

 earlier description. A survey in 1930 by DI per- 

 sonnel on the Discovery II conflrmed Cook's report, 

 thus suggesting the name for this island. 



VIOLANTE INLET: ice-flUed inlet about 15 mi. 

 long, in an E.-W. direction, and 12 mi. wide, lying 

 between Cape Fanning and Cape Herdman along 

 the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 72°35'S., 61°05'W. 

 Disc, and photographed from the air in Decem- 

 ber 1940 by members of the US AS and named for 

 Maj. (later Col.) Andre L. Violante, USA, who 

 designed the prefabricated buildings used by the 

 expedition. Particularly because of a false floor, 

 they proved to be the most satisfactory quarters 

 used by American Antarctic expeditions. 



VISCA ANCHORAGE: northwestern portion of 

 Martel Inlet, Admiralty Bay, which is entered 

 between La Plaza Pt. and Ullmann Pt., on King 

 George I., in the South Shetland Is.; in 62°03'S., 

 58°23'W. Visca Anchorage was charted by the 

 FrAE, 1908-10, under Charcot, and named by him 

 for Dr. Visca, an acquaintance in Montevideo. 

 Not adopted: North Anchorage. 



VISOKOI ISLAND: island about 4.5 mi. long 

 and 3 mi. wide, capped by Mt. Hodson, a volcanic 

 peak about 3,000 ft.. in el., in the South Sandwich 

 Is.; in 56°42'S., 27°12'W. Disc, in 1819 by a Russ. 

 exp. under Bellingshausen, who named the island 

 Visokoi (High) , because of its conspicuous height. 



Vogel Insel: see Bird Island. 



Voile, Rocher: see Sail Rock. 



von Sterneck, Cape: see Charles, Cape; Sterneck, 

 Cape. 



Vorgebirge der guten Begegnung: see Well-met, 

 Cape. 



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