628 SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF ZIEGLER POLAR EXPEDITION 



NOMENCLATURK OF GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES 



In the nomenclature of the different geographical features, certain changes have been 

 made, as follows : 



Backs Channel has been retained for that body of water separating Karl Alexander and 

 Jackson Islands. 



De Long Fjord (Nansen) proved to be a bay and not a channel separating Leigh Smith 

 and Frederick Jackson Islands as Nansen supposed. The name of Jackson has been retained 

 to the island which this bay indents. 



Hojfman Island was looked for on several occasions at a distance of some 20 miles 

 under favorable atmospheric conditions but never was seen. It may be a low, snow-covered 

 island and has been retained in the position ascribed by Wellman. Nansen dropped it from 

 his preliminary map but Wellman' s map shows his route so close to it as to preclude any 

 reasonable doubt of its existence. 



Freeden Island (Payer) has been retained on the map as the most southern island of 

 Nansen' s " Hvidtenland " because Payer saw an island in^ this neighborhood which he 

 called Freeden Island. The identity of the island that Payer saw is a question that probably 

 cannot be settled as it appeared in a direction where some islands are now known to exist. 

 The name he gave should appear on some one of these and, as Nansen has suggested, one 

 island of this group might very probably be the one Payer saw. 



Booth, Rhodes, and Brown Fjords and the Ward Bay of Jackson have all been found to be 

 channels running through to Austria Sound and separating Payer's Zichey Land into several 

 islands. 



The group of small islands indicated on Wellman' s map as lying south of Markham Sound 

 and between Hooker and McClintock Islands have all been identified, with two exceptions, 

 viz. : Simon Newcomb Islands and Willis Moore Islands. When Jackson mapped this region 

 he passed through Hamilton Channel in thick weather without seeing the channel which 

 divides the land west of Hamilton Channel into two islands. We have placed Jackson's Brom- 

 wich on the northern of these two islands and Wellman's Prichett on the southern. 



La Ronciere Peninsula, Cape Berghaus, and Cape Littrow, all of Payer, were found by 

 Wellman to be islands and were given new names. The original proper names of Payer have 

 been retained on the ground of priority. 



Richtlwjen Peak, seen by Payer from Cape Brunn, has been located on Alger Island and 

 not where Jackson places it. Here the Expedition found a peak, or spur, some 1,400 feet high 

 dominating the entire neighborhood, as Payer asserts. His wood cut illustrating the peak and 

 his description of it convinced us that the high mountain on Alger Island, and that only, 

 could satisfy his conditions. 



The Expedition concurs with the Italians that the four islands indicated by Wellman as 

 lying northeast of Rudolph Island do not exist. The locality was crossed twice and no land 

 found. 



The word ' ' land ' ' has been dropped entirely as being misguiding, now that the Archi- 

 pelago is known to consist only of several comparatively small islands. 



In the map construction the last name only of proper names given to geographical feat- 

 ures has been retained for the sake of brevity and clearness. The results of the survey work 

 of the Expedition have all been made use of in constructing Maps B and C. 



The map showing the Arctic regions (Map A) has been compiled by Mr. Gilbert H. 

 Grosvenor, Editor of the National Geographic Magazine. As will be readily noted, he has 

 entered upon the same practically all data secured in the Arctic through the year 1906. The 

 Expedition is iinder great obligation to him for the thorough execution of the laborious work 

 of compilation of data and corrections necessary in the construction of this map. 



