GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



Cape-Pigeon Rocks on the W. side of Watt Bay; 

 centering in about 66°51'S., 143°38'E. Disc, from 

 the Aurora in January 1912 by the AAE under 

 Mawson, and later charted and photographed from 

 the ground by the AAE party under F. L. Stillwell. 

 Named by Mawson for Sir Samuel Way, Chancellor 

 of Adelaide University. 



W. Christopher son, Mount: see Engelstad, Mount. 



WEAVER, MOUNT: mountain in the Queen 

 Maud Range, about 10,000 ft. in el., marking the 

 S. portal of Robert Scott Gl. at the south polar pla- 

 teau; in about 86°57'S., 153°00'W. Disc, by the 

 ByrdAE, 1933-35. Named for Charles E. Weaver, 

 Prof, of Paleontology at the Univ. of Washington. 



WEBB, CAPE: cape separating Ainsworth Bay 

 and Doolette Bay, on the George V Coast; in about 

 67°50'S., 146°51'E. Disc, in 1912 by the AAE, 

 1911-14, under Mawson, who named it for E. N. 

 Webb, chief magnetician of the Main Base Party 

 of the expedition. 



WEBB ISLAND: rocky island about 1 mi. long, 

 lying in Laubeuf Fjord about 2 mi. S. of the 

 entrance to Stonehouse Bay, Adelaide I.; in 

 67°27'S., 67°57'W. Disc, by the FrAE tinder Char- 

 cot, 1908-10, and named by him for Capt. (later 

 Adm. Sir) Richard C. Webb, RN, commanding 

 officer of an English cruiser in Argentine waters 

 at that time. Not adopted: Webb Islet. 



WEBSTER KNOB: prominent rock outcrop, 

 about 8,000 ft. in el., which lies on the NE. 

 shoulder of Mt. Fridtjof Nansen, in the Queen 

 Maud Range; in about 85°21'S., 166°10'W. Disc, 

 and visited in November 1929 by the ByrdAE 

 geological party under Laurence Gould and named 

 by Byrd for Mrs. Laurence J. Webster, contributor 

 to the expedition. 



WEBSTER PEAKS: group of four rocky peaks 

 about 3,000 ft. in el., standing about 3 mi. W. of 

 Whitecloud Cove, the S. head of Charcot Bay, on 

 the NW. side of Louis Philippe Pen.; in 63°53'S., 

 59°37'W. Charted by the FIDS in 1948, and 

 named for W. H. B. Webster, medical officer and 

 naturalist on the Chanticleer, which approached 

 Tower and Trinity Islands off this coast in 1829. 



Weddell, Cape: see Weddell Point. 



WEDDELL GLACIER: glacier flowing in a N. 

 direction to the S. side of Royal Bay, about 4 mi. 

 SE. of Ross Gl., on the N. coast of South Georgia; 

 in 54°35'S., 36°00'W. The glacier was charted by 

 the Ger. exp. under Schrader, 1882-83, and named 

 for James Weddell, Master, RN, who as a British 

 sealing captain visited South Georgia in 1823. 



WEDDELL ISLANDS: two islands fringed by 

 rocks, lying about 2 mi. S. of Saddle I. and some 

 6 mi. E. of Cape Faraday, Powell I., in the South 

 Orkney Is.; in 60°39'S., 44°51'W. These islands 

 were probably first sighted on the occasion of a 

 joint cruise by Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer and 

 Capt. George Powell in December 1821. The name 

 first appears on James Weddell's chart, made fol- 

 lowing his voyage to the South Orkney Is. in 1823. 

 Not adopted : Veddels [Norwegian] , Weddell Island. 



WEDDELL POINT: low tussock grass covered 

 point forming the E. side of the entrance to Schlie- 

 per Bay, on the S. coast and near the W. end of 

 South Georgia; in 54°04'S., 37°51'W. The name 

 "Cape Weddell" was given by David Ferguson, 

 Scottish geologist, during his visit to South Georgia 

 in 1911-12, after James Weddell, Master, RN, who 

 visited South Georgia in 1823. The term point 

 is a more suitable descriptive term for this feature 

 than cape. Not adopted: Cape Weddell. 



WEDDELL SEA: great ice-filled sea which in- 

 dents Antarctica between Palmer Pen. and Coats 

 Land; centering in about 73°S., 45°W. This sea 

 was disc, in 1823 by James Weddell, Master, RN, 

 who named it George IV Sea. The present name, 

 honoring the discoverer, was proposed by Dr. Karl 

 Fricker in 1900, and it has been universally 

 accepted. Not adopted: George IV Sea. 



Weddell Shelf Ice: see Filchner Shelf Ice. 



Wedel Islands: see Vedel Islets. 



WEDEL-JARLSBERG, MOUNT: mountain ris- 

 ing to about 11,500 ft. in el., standing about 3 mi. 

 SSW. of Mt. Ruth Gade, between Isaiah Bowman 

 and Cooper Glaciers, in the Queen Maud Range; 

 in about 85°42'S., 164°20'W. Disc, in December 

 1911 on the journey to the South Pole by the Nor. 

 exp. under Amundsen, and named by him for Alice 

 Wedel-Jarlsberg, wife of the Norwegian diplomat 

 and one of the last members of the Norwegian 

 nobility. Not adopted: Mount Alice Wedel-Jarls- 

 berg. 



WEDNESDAY ISLAND: island about 1.5 mi. 

 long, which is the easternmost of the Wauwermans 

 Is., lying about 3 mi. WSW. of Cape Errera, 

 Wiencke I., at the SW. end of the Palmer Arch.; 

 in 64°56'S., 63°45'W. The Wauwermans Is. were 

 disc, by the Ger. exp. under Dallmann, 1873-74, 

 and were later roughly charted by the BelgAE 

 under De Gerlache, 1897-99, and the FrAE under 

 Charcot, 1903-5. Wednesday Island was charted 

 by the BGLE, 1934-37, under Rymill, and so 

 named because RymiU's exp. first sighted the 

 island on a Wednesday. 



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