GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



WEIR GLACIER: glacier, about 6 mi. long, 

 flowing N. into the SE. corner of Barilari Bay, on 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 66°01'S., 64°42'W. 

 First sighted and roughly charted in 1909 by the 

 FrAE under Charcot. It was surveyed in 1935-36 

 by the BGLE under Rymill, and later named for 

 William D. Weir, 1st Viscount Weir of Eastwood 

 and his son, the Hon. James K. Weir, who con- 

 tributed toward the cost of the BGLE, 1934-37. 



Weisse Insel: see White Island. 



WELCH ISLAND: island about 1 mi. long with 

 a prominent pirmacle rock about 400 ft. in el., 

 lying about 20 mi. W. of Cape Daly and about 

 2 mi. off the shore of Mac-Robertson Coast at the 

 E. side of Holme Bay; in about 67°34'S., 62°57'E. 

 Disc, by the BANZARE, 1929-31, under Mawson. 

 B. F. Welch was the ship's second engineer on this 

 expedition. 



WELCHNESS: gravel spit forming the W. ex- 

 tremity of Dundee I., located off the NE. end of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 63°29'S., 56°14'W. The feature 

 was probably first sighted by the Dundee whaling 

 exp., 1892-93, and is described in the report of 

 Dr. C. W. Donald who sailed on the Active. 



WELCOME ISLETS : group of rocky islets lying 

 about 4 mi. WNW. of Cape BuUer, off the N. coast 

 of South Georgia; in 53°58'S., 37°29'W. These 

 islets were disc, by Capt. James Cook in 1775. 

 The name dates back to at least 1912 and is 

 now well established in international usage. Not 

 adopted: Welcome Islands. 



Welhelmina Bay: see Wilhelmina Bay. 



WELL-MET, CAPE : dark, conspicuous headland 

 near the center of the N. side of Vega I., close S. 

 of the NE. end of Palmer Pen.; in 63°47'S., 57°19'W. 

 Cape Well-met was disc, and named by the 

 SwedAE, 1901-4, and commemorates the long 

 delayed union at this point of a relief party under 

 J. Gunnar Andersson and the winter party under 

 Dr. Otto Nordenskjold after twenty months of 

 enforced separation. Not adopted: Cape Well- 

 Met, Motesudden [Swedish] , Vorgebirge der guten 

 Begegnung [German]. 



WELLS RIDGE: rocky ridge about 2.5 mi. long 

 rising to an estimated 2,000 ft. in el., lying a few 

 miles N. of the Swanson Mtns. on the N. side of 

 Arthur Davis Gl., in the Edsel Ford Ranges in 

 Marie Byrd Land; in about 76°57'S., 144°50'W. 

 Disc, in aerial flights made from the West Base of 

 the USAS in 1940 and named for Loran Wells, 

 photographer and observer of the Edsel Ford 



Mountains Geological Survey Party which visited 

 this mountain in November-December 1940. 



Wensley Beacon: see Wensleydale Beacon. 



WENSLEYDALE BEACON: hill about 325 ft. in 

 el., situated about 1.5 mi. SSW. of Telefon Bay, 

 on the W. side of Port Foster, Deception I., in the 

 South Shetland Is.; in 62°57'S., 60°42'W. The 

 hill was charted by a Br. exp., 1828-31, under 

 Foster. Named by Lt. Cdr. D. N. Penfold, RN, 

 following his survey of the island in 1948-49, after 

 Wensleydale in Yorkshire, England. Not adopted: 

 Wensley Beacon. 



WEST BALCH GLACIER: glacier, about 10 mi. 

 long and 3 mi. wide, lying S. of West Gould Gl. 

 on Palmer Pen. and flowing WNW. into Marin 

 Darbel Bay; in 66°42'S., 65°25'W. This glacier 

 together with East Balch Gl., to the E., fill a trans- 

 verse depression across Palmer Pen. Partially sur- 

 veyed in 1946-47 by the FIDS and named by them, 

 like its counterpart, for Edwin Swift Balch, Ameri- 

 can Antarctic historian. 



West Barrier: see West Ice Shelf. 



WEST BAY: small bay on the S. coast and 

 near the W. end of Heard I., indenting the base 

 of Laurens Pen. about 0.5 mi. W. of Atlas Cove; 

 in 53°02'S., 73°21'E. The name was applied by 

 American sealers at Heard I. in the period follow- 

 ing their initiation of sealing there in 1855. So 

 named because of its position. The name appears 

 on a chart by the Br. exp. under Nares, which 

 visited the island in the Challenger in 1874 and 

 utilized the names then in use by the sealers. 



West Bay: see Cumberland West Bay. 



WEST BLUFF: conspicuous bluff marking the 

 W. extremity of Zavodovski I., in the South Sand- 

 wich Is.; in 56°20'S., 27°38'W. West Bluff was 

 charted and named in 1930 by DI personnel on the 

 Discovery II. 



West Bluff: see Sulphur Point. 



West Cumberland Bay: see Cumberland West 

 Bay. 



WEST GOULD GLACIER: glacier, about 11 mi. 

 long and 6 mi. wide, lying immediately S. of Bruce 

 Plateau on Palmer Pen. and flowing W. into Marin 

 Darbel Bay; in 66°34'S., 65°15'W. This glacier 

 together with East Gould Gl., to the E., flU a trans- 

 verse depression across Palmer Pen. Partially 

 surveyed in 1946-47 by the FIDS and named by 

 them, like its counterpart, for Lt. Cdr. Rupert T. 

 Gould, British polar historian and cartographer. 



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