GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



under De Gerlache. Charted in 1944 by the FIDS, 

 who applied this descriptive name. 



WALNUM, MOUNT: mountain mass in the cen- 

 tral portion of the S0r Rondane Mtns., on Prin- 

 cess Ragnhild Coast; in about 72°10'S., 23°00'E. 

 Disc, and charted by members of a Nor. exp. under 

 Christensen on Feb. 6, 1937, and named for Ragn- 

 vald Walnum, one-time chairman of the Nor- 

 wegian Whaling Board, who prepared an ice chart 

 of Antarctica. 



Walter, Pointe: see Walker Point. 



Walter Kohler Range: see Kohler Range. 



WALTON MOUNTAINS: mountains on the 

 northern coast of the western part of Alexander I 

 Island; in about 71°15'S., 74°20'W. Disc, by the 

 RARE, 1947-48, under Ronne, who named these 

 mountains for Lt. Col. R. C. Walton, USMC, of 

 the Office of Naval Research, who was instru- 

 mental in obtaining the loan of the exp. ship from 

 the Navy, and in securing Navy assistance for the 

 expedition. 



WALTON PEAK: sharp peak, about 2,700 ft. in 

 el., which stands 2 mi. NNE. of Mt. Rhanmus and 

 is part of the irregular ridge separating Northeast 

 Gl. from Neny Fjord, on the W. coast of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 68°09'S., 66°48'W. First surveyed in 1936 

 by the BGLE under Rymill. Resurveyed in 1946 

 and 1948 by the FIDS, and named for Eric W. K. 

 Walton, FIDS engineer at Stonington I. in 1946 

 and 1947, who in 1946 rescued J. E. Tonkin of FIDS 

 from a crevasse in Northeast Glacier. 



Wandel Island: see Booth Island. 



WARD, MOUNT: mountain about 8,500 ft. in el., 

 standing SE. of the Batterbee Mtns. in the S. part 

 of Palmer Pen.; in about 71°55'S., 66°00'W. Disc, 

 by the RARE, 1947-48, under Ronne, who named it 

 for W. W. Ward, editor of the Beaumont Journal, 

 Beaumont, Texas, and a supporter of the expe- 

 dition. 



WARD, MOUNT: peak about 10,500 ft. in el., 

 standing about 9 mi. SE. of Mt. Nimrod, in the 

 Dominion Range; in about 85°33'S., 169°15'E. 

 Disc, and named by the BrAE, 1907-9, under 

 Shackleton. 



WARNER, MOUNT: isolated L-shaped mountain 

 near the head of Arthur Davis Gl., in the Edsel Ford 

 Ranges of Marie Byrd Land; in about 77°05'S., 

 143°55'W. Disc, by members of the Edsel Ford 

 Mountains Geological Survey Party of the USAS, 

 1939-41, and named for Lawrence A. Warner, geol- 



ogist at the USAS West Base and leader of the 

 survey party which visited this mountain. 



WARNING GLACIER: glacier descending steeply 

 from the Cape Adare peninsula into the E. part of 

 Robertson Bay, in northern Victoria Land; in about 

 71°31'S., 170°22'E. First charted in 1899 by the 

 BrAE, 1898-1900, under C. E. Borchgrevink, who so 

 named it because southerly gales at Cape Adare 

 were always heralded by a cloud of snow sweeping 

 over this glacier into Robertson Bay. 



WARNOCK ISLANDS: two small offshore islands 

 north of the William Scoresby Arch., lying about 

 1 mi. S. and SW. of Dales I. and about 12 mi. N. of 

 Mac-Robertson Coast; in about 67°12'S., 59°47'E. 

 Disc, and named in February 1936 by DI person- 

 nel on the William Scoresby. 



Warpasgiljo Glacier: see Arthur Davis Glacier. 



WARREN ISLET: islet lying in William Scoresby 

 Bay immediately S. of the W. end of Bertha I., off 

 Mac-Robertson Coast; in about 67°24'S., 59°38'E. 

 Disc, and named by DI personnel on the William 

 Scoresby in February 1936. 



WASHINGTON, CAPE: bold truncated headland, 

 about 1,000 ft. in el., with vertical sides, forming 

 the tip of the long peninsula which separates Wood 

 Bay and Terra Nova Bay, in Victoria Land; in 

 about 74°42'S., 165°45'E. Disc, by a Br. exp. under 

 Ross, Feb. 18, 1841, and named for Captain Wash- 

 ington, a former secretary of the Royal Geographi- 

 cal Society. 



Washington, Mount: see Helen Washington, 

 Mount. 



WASHINGTON STRAIT: passage about 2 mi. 

 wide between Laurie I. and Powell I., in the South 

 Orkney Is.; in 60°45'S., 44°55'W. Disc, in December 

 1821 on the occasion of the joint cruise by Capt. 

 George Powell, a British sealer in the sloop James 

 Monroe. Supposedly, it was named for George 

 Washington, first President of the United States. 



WATCHKEEPER, THE: low rock fringed on the 

 N. side by sunken rocks, lying about 2 mi. N. of 

 Table I., in the South Shetland Is.; in 62°18'S., 

 59°52'W. This feature was known to early sealers 

 in the area as Flat Isle, but in recent years the 

 name The Watchkeeper has overtaken the early 

 name in usage. It was charted by DI personnel 

 on the Discovery II in 1935. Not adopted: Flat Isle. 



WATERFALL BAY: small, unsheltered bay, 

 marked by a conspicuous waterfall at its head, lying 

 about 1.5 mi. SW. of Blue Whale Hbr. in the E. side 

 of Possession Bay, along the N. coast of South 



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