GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



WEST ICE SHELF : an ice shelf of undetermined 

 extent, projecting northward from the coast to 

 approximately the 66th parallel, and bordering 

 Wilhelm II Coast from about 88°30'E. for an un- 

 determined distance westward. Disc, and named 

 by the GerAE, 1901-3, under Drygalski. Not 

 adopted: West Barrier, West Shelf Ice. 



West Melchior Archipelago: see West Melchior 

 Islands. 



WEST MELCHIOR ISLANDS: a group of small 

 ice-covered islands and rocks which lie W. of The 

 Sound in the Melchior Is., Palmer Arch.; in 

 64°19'S., 63°00'W. The islands E. of The Sound 

 are called East Melchior Islands. The name was 

 probably given by DI personnel who roughly sur- 

 veyed these islands in 1927. The islands were sur- 

 veyed by Argentine expeditions in 1942, 1943 and 

 1948. Not adopted: West Melchior Archipelago. 



WESTMINSTER, MOUNT: peak about 11,500 ft. 

 in el. standing at the W. side of Mt. Kinsey be- 

 tween Keltic Gl. and Mill Gl. and overlooking the 

 E. side of Beardmore Gl.; in about 85°00'S., 

 170°20'E. Disc, and named by the BrAE, 1907-9, 

 under Shackleton, probably after Westminster, a 

 borough in the central part of London containing 

 the Houses of Parliament and other civic buildings. 



WEST RUSSELL GLACIER: glacier, about 11 

 mi. long and 4 mi. wide, which lies immediately 

 N. of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mt. Canicula 

 westward into Bone Cove on the W. side of Louis 

 Philippe Pen.; in 63°40'S., 50°50'W. This glacier 

 together with East Russell Glacier, which flows 

 eastward into Prince Gustav Channel on the E. 

 side of Louis Philippe Pen., form a through glacier 

 across the N. part of Palmer Pen. It was first 

 surveyed in 1946 by the FIDS. Named by the 

 Br-APC for V. I. Russell, surveyor and leader of 

 the FIDS base at Hope Bay in 1946. 



West Shelf Ice: see West Ice Shelf. 



WEST SKERRY : small group of islets and rocks, 

 forming the W. part of Skrap Skerries, about 2.5 

 mi. ESE. of Barff Pt., off the N. coast of South 

 Georgia; in 54°15'S., 36°20'W. The name appears 

 on a chart based upon a survey of this area by 

 DI personnel in the period 1926-30, but it may 

 reflect an earlier naming by whalers. Not adopted : 

 West Skrapskjar. 



West Skrapskjar: see West Skerry. 



WEST STACK: a rock outcrop, about 450 ft. in 

 el., on the W. side of an ice-covered promontory on 

 Kemp Coast that lies about 25 mi. SE of the en- 

 trance of Edward VIII Bay; in about 67°04'S., 



58°07'E. Disc, in February 1936 by DI personnel 

 on the William Scoresby, and probably so named by 

 them because of its distinctive appearance. Not 

 adopted: Vestskotet [Norwegian]. 



Westye Egeberg Glacier: see Egeberg Glacier. 



WETMORE GLACIER: large glacier flowing in 

 a SSE. direction and paralleling in its lower reaches 

 the W. side of Irvine Gl. The two glaciers merge 

 northward of Mt. Austin before entering the head 

 of Gardner Inlet, on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; 

 in about 74°38'S., 63°35'W. Disc, by the RARE, 

 1947-48, under Ronne, who named this feature for 

 Dr. Alexander Wetmore, Sec. of the Smithsonian 

 Inst., who assisted Ronne in laying out the scien- 

 tific research program of the expedition. Not 

 adopted: Alexander Wetmore Glacier. 



Wetterioand: see Smoky Wall. 



WEYERHAEUSER GLACIER: large glacier flow- 

 ing in a NE. direction and merging with several 

 other large glaciers close W. of Mobiloil Inlet, on 

 the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in about 68°45'S., 

 66°00'W. This glacier lies in the area first ex- 

 plored from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928 

 and Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935, but it was first 

 clearly delineated in aerial photographs taken by 

 the USAS in 1940. The glacier was resighted in 



1947 by the RARE under Ronne, who named it for 

 F. K. Weyerhaeuser of the Weyerhaeuser Lumber 

 Co., which contributed lumber and insulating ma- 

 terial to the expedition. 



WEYPRECHT MOUNTAINS: mountain group 

 about 9,500 ft. in el., standing immediately W. of 

 the N. edge of the polar plateau in New Schwaben- 

 land; centering in about 71°55'S., 13°30'E. Disc, 

 by the GerAE under Ritscher, 1938-39, and named 

 for Karl Weyprecht, Austrian polar explorer who 

 in company with Julius Payer discovered Franz 

 Josef Land in 1873, and initiator of the first Inter- 

 national Polar Year expedition in 1882-83. 



Whaleback: see Marston, Mount. 



WHALEBACK ISLET: low, rounded rocky islet 

 lying about 2 mi. SSW. of Blake Islet and close 

 SW. of Bone Cove, off the NW. coast of Louis 

 Philippe Pen.; in 63°40'S., 59°00'W. Charted in 



1948 by members of the FIDS who gave this descrip- 

 tive name. 



WHALE BAY: small bay along the S. coast of 

 Coronation I., about 2 mi. NW. of the SE. end of 

 the island, in the South Orkney Is.; in 60°45'S., 

 45°11'W. The bay was charted and named on a 

 map based upon a running survey of the South 

 Orkney Is. in 1912-13 by Capt. Petter S0rlle, a 



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