GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



WYATT ISLAND: island, about 5 mi. long and 

 2 mi. wide, lying 2 mi. S. of Day I. near the center 

 part of Laubeuf Fjord, off the W. coast of Palmer 

 Pen.; in 67°20'S., 67°40'W. First surveyed in 1936 

 by the BGLE under Rymill, who used the provi- 

 sional name South Island for this feature. The is- 

 land was resurveyed in 1948 by the FIDS, and re- 

 named by them for V. Adm. Sir Arthur G. N. Wyatt, 

 Hydrographer to the Navy, 1945-50. Not adopted: 

 South Island. 



WYCK ISLAND: island about 1 mi. long, lying 

 about 1 mi. S. of the W. part of Brooklyn I. in the 

 E. portion of Wilhelmina Bay, off the W. coast of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 64°36'S., 61°54'W. Disc, by the 

 BelgAE, 1897-99, under De Gerlache, and named 

 on the recommendation of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, 

 surgeon of the exp.; in honor of R. A. Van Wyck, 

 first mayor of Greater New York City. Not 

 adopted: Van Wyck Island. 



X, ROCK: prominent, offshore rock about 0.4 

 mi. long, lying close inside the E. side of the en- 

 trance to Victor Bay, about 1 mi. NW. of Gravenoire 

 Rock, off Adelie Coast; in 66°20'S., 136°42'E. 

 Photographed from the air by USN Op. Hjp., 

 1946-47. Charted by the FrAE under Marret, 

 1952-53, and £0 named because the rock was indi- 

 cated by a cross or "X" mark in selected prints of 

 the Operation High jump photographs for the pur- 

 pose of identifying it to the FrAE party which 

 established an astronomical control station there. 



X-Ray Range; X-Ray, Mount: see Kohler Range. 



YALOUR ISLETS: group of islets and rocks 

 about 1.5 mi. in extent, lying in the middle of Penola 

 Str. about 1 mi. NW. of Cape Tuxen, off the W. 

 coast of Palmer Pen.; in 65°15'S., 64°10'W. Disc, 

 by the FrAE, 1903-5, under Charcot, and named by 

 him for Lt. Jorge Yalour, Argentine Navy, an officer 

 of the Argentine corvette Uruguay, which came to 

 the rescue of the shipwrecked SwedAE in Novem- 

 ber 1903. Not adopted: Jallour Islands, Jallour 

 Isles, Jallour Islets, Jalour Islets. 



YANKEE HARBOR: circular harbor indenting 

 the W. coast of Greenwich I., in the South Shetland 

 Is.; in 62°32'S., 59°49'W. Yankee Harbor was 

 known to both American sealers and the British 

 as early as 1820, and this name is now established 

 international usage. Port Foster, the crater har- 

 bor of Deception I., has at times also been referred 

 to as Yankee Harbor. Not adopted: Fannings 

 Harbor, Hospital Cove. 



Yankee Harbor: see- Foster, Port.* 



Yankee Sound: see McFarlane Strait. 



Yngvar Nielsen Glacier; Yugvar Nielsen Glacier: 

 see Nielsen Glacier. 



YOUNG ISLAND: island about 19 mi. long and 

 5 mi. wide which rises to a plateau about 4,000 ft. 

 in el., lying in the NW. extremity of the Balleny Is.; 

 in about 66°25'S., 162°30'E. Disc, in February 1839 

 by a Br. exp. under Balleny who named it for G. F. 

 Young, one of the merchants who united with 

 Charles Enderby in sending out the expedijon. 



YOUNG POINT: rocky point forming the N. side 

 of the entrance to Bone Cove, on the NW. coast of 

 Louis Philippe Pen.; in 63°36'S., 58°55'W. Charted 

 by the FIDS in 1948 and named for Dr. Adam 

 Young, surgeon on the brig Williams which made 

 explorations in the South Shetland Is. and Brans- 

 field Str. in 1820. 



YSEULT ISLET: small rocky islet, lying about 

 0.7 mi. E. of Tristan It. and about 0.4 mi. NNE. of 

 the E. point on Cape Jules, off Adelie Coast; in 

 66°44'S., 140°56'E. Photographed from the air by 

 USN Op. Hjp., 1946-47. Charted by the FrAE 

 under Barre, 1951-52, and so named because of its 

 twin relationship with Tristan It. Yseult is the 

 French spelling of Isolde, legendary heroine incor- 

 porated into Arthurian legend and later popular- 

 ized by Wagner's opera "Tristan and Isolde." 



YULE BAY: bay between Cape Hooker and Cape 

 Dayman, lying about 19 mi. ESE. of Cape North, 

 along the northern coast of Victoria Land; in about 

 70°40'S., 166°30'E. Disc, in 1841 by a Br. exp. 

 under Ross who named it for Henry B. Yule, second 

 master on the ship Erebus. 



ZANUCK, MOUNT: large mountain, about 4 mi. 

 wide and 10 mi. long surmounted by three sharp 

 peaks in an E.-W. line, the highest of which rises 

 to about 7,500 ft. in el., standing at the S. side of 

 Albanus Gl. at the point where it joins the E. side 

 of Robert Scott GL, in the Queen Maud Range; 

 centering in about 85°58'S., 150°04'W. Disc, by 

 R. Adm. Byrd on the ByrdAE flight to the South 

 Pole in November 1929, and visited in December 

 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin 

 Blackburn. Named by Byrd for Darryl F. Zanuck, 

 official of Twentieth Century-Fox Pictures, who 

 assisted the ByrdAE, 1933-35, in assembling 

 motion-picture records, and later supplied the 

 USAS, 1939-41, with motion-picture projectors. 



Zavodovskii Island; Zavodovsk Island: see Zavo- 

 dovski Island. 



ZAVODOVSKI ISLAND: circular island about 3 

 mi. in diameter surmounted by an active volcanic 

 cone about 1,600 ft. in el., in the South Sandwich 



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