GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



VORPOSTEN PEAK: isolated peak about 7,200 

 ft. in el., rising through the icecap at the N. edge 

 of the polar plateau in New Schwabenland; in 

 about 71°20'S., 16°00'E. Disc, by members of the 

 GerAE under Ritscher, 1938-39, who gave the 

 name Vorposten (the outpost) because of the 

 marginal location of this peak with respect to the 

 German area of operations. Not adopted: The 

 Outpost, Vorposten [German]. 



VORTEX ISLET: islet about 0.5 mi. long and 

 800 ft. in el., lying in the NE. part of Prince Gustav 

 Chan, about 2 ml. WSW. of Corry I., close S. of 

 the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; in 63°44'S., 57°38'W. 

 Islands in this area were first seen by a party 

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

 Vortex Islet was first charted by the FIDS in 

 August 1945. The FIDS survey party was forced 

 to lie idle there by a whirlwind snowstorm, thus 

 suggesting the name. 



VULCAN POINT: northwestern point of Candle- 

 mas I., in the South Sandwich Is.; in 57°02'S., 

 26°43'W. The point was charted in 1930 by DI 

 personnel on the Discovery II, and so named be- 

 cause a lava plateau occupies the N. portion of the 

 island, giving evidence of earlier volcanic activity. 



WADDINGTON BAY: bay about 2 mi. long, in 

 a NW.-SE. direction, and 1 mi. wide, indenting 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen. between Cape Ras- 

 mussen and Cape Tuxen: in 65°16'S., 64°05'W. 

 This bay is partially defined on the charts of the 

 BelgAE, 1897-99, under De Gerlache. It was more 

 fully delineated by the FrAE, 1908-10, under Char- 

 cot, who named it for Senator Waddington, Pres. 

 of the Chamber of Commerce at Rouen. 



WADE, MOUNT: massive mountain about 15,000 

 ft. in el., standing in the Prince Olav Mtns. of the 

 Queen Maud Range and dominating the E. flank 

 of Shackleton Gl., at the head of Ross Ice Shelf; 

 in about 84°40'S., 173°00'W. Disc, by the ByrdAE 

 on several flights to the Queen Maud Range in 

 November 1929. Named by the US-SCAN for F. 

 Alton Wade, geologist with the ByrdAE, 1933-35, 

 and senior scientist at the West Base of the US AS, 

 1939-41. Not adopted: Mount Bush. 



Wade, Mount: see Gray, Mount. 



Wade Glacier: see Shackleton Glacier. 



WADE POINT: rocky mass, more than 3,000 ft. 

 in el., marking the W. extremity of the rock ridge 

 separating Millett and Bertram Glaciers on Palmer 

 Pen., overlooking George VI Sound; in 70°41'S., 

 67°40'W. First surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE 

 under Rymill, and later named by the members 



of the expedition for Mrs. Muriel H. Wade, who 

 was secretary to the BGLE. 



Wadsworth, Cape: see Wadworth, Cape. 



WAD WORTH, CAPE: northern tip of Coulman 

 I., in the Ross Sea just off Victoria Land; in about 

 73°20'S., 169°30'E. Disc, on Jan. 17, 1841 by a 

 Br. exp. under Capt. James Clark Ross, who named 

 it in compliment to his wife's uncle, Robert John 

 Coulman, Esq., of Wadworth Hall, Doncaster. Not 

 adopted: Cape Wadsworth. 



WAESCHE, MOUNT: snow-covered summit 

 standing at the SW. end of the Executive Commit- 

 tee Range, in Marie Byrd Land; in about 77°30'S., 

 130°00'W. Disc, by the USAS on a flight, Dec. 15, 

 1940, and named for V. Adm. Russell R. Waesche, 

 U. S. Coast Guard, member of the USAS Execu- 

 tive Committee. 



WAGER GLACIER: small, heavily crevassed gla- 

 cier on the E. coast of Alexander I Island, which 

 occupies a trench-like valley and flows E. into 

 George VI Sound immediately S. of Marr Bluflf; 

 in 69°48'S., 69°23'W. Surveyed in 1948 by the 

 FIDS and named by them for Lawrence R. Wager, 

 prof, of Geology at Oxford University. 



WAIFS, THE: group of islets and rocks lying in 

 the middle of the SE. entrance to SchoUaert Chan., 

 in the Palmer Arch.; in 64°33'S., 62°42'W. Disc, 

 by the BelgAE, 1897-99, under De Gerlache. The 

 name appears on a chart based upon a 1927 sur- 

 vey by DI personnel on the Discovery, but may 

 reflect an earlier naming. Not adopted: Les Waifs 

 [P^ench] . 



WAITABIT CLIFFS: a line of sedimentary cliffs 

 on the E. coast of Alexander I Island, which face 

 eastward onto George VI Sound and extend 3 mi. 

 N. from the mouth of Mercury Gl.; in 71°31'S., 

 68°14'W. The coast in this vicinity was first ex- 

 plored from the air and partially photographed by 

 Lincoln Ellsworth on Nov. 23, 1935. The cliffs 

 were first roughly surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE 

 under Rymill. They were resurveyed in 1949 by 

 the FIDS, at which time the rock strata were in- 

 dependently examined by members of the party 

 at two different points; an important investigation 

 causing the delay which gave rise to the name. 



WAKEFIELD, MOUNT: prominent mountain 

 about 9,400 ft. in el., standing S. of the great trans- 

 verse depression occupied by Fleming and Bing- 

 ham Glaciers, on Palmer Pen.; in 69°46'S., 64°34'W. 

 This mountain and the prominent peaks immedi- 

 ately to the N. and S. were sighted from the air 

 by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935, and are probably 

 synonymous with the feature which he called 



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