Antarctica: An Encyclopedia, 2d ed.

1772 Pages·2011·16.9 MB·English

by  John Stewart

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ANTARCTICA
SECOND EDITION
ANTARCTICA
An Encyclopedia
SECOND EDITION
J S
OHN TEWART
Volume 1
(Preface; A Note on Alphabetization; A–K)
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• Volume 1 •
Acknowledgments vi
Preface vii
A Note on Alphabetization viii
The Encyclopedia
A–K 1
• Volume 2 •
The Encyclopedia
L–Z 889
Bibliography 1749
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CKNOWLEDGMENTS
Gayle Winston, first and foremost, which is why I dedicated this book to
her, as I do all my books.
John Lavett. He was a very good friend, not only of mine, but of my cousin
George Dixon, the skipper of the LST to Heard and Kerguélen during the first
ever ANARE. To John and Pat, and, of course, to George.
Ed Hillary, wherever you are.
Billy- Ace Baker, the most remarkable guy, and a very good buddy. He is
really the Moriarty of Antarctica. Without Billy- Ace, this book would have been
a slim volume of meaningless rubbish. He’s says that’s not true, and I’m sure he’s
right.
Jane Cameron of the Falkland Islands Archives. Jane was involved in a car
crash in Argentina, and died just after Christmas 2009. We all lost a friend, and
a great archivist.
Alan Carroll, a good buddy, one of the great Fids. If it was just for his book
on the history of Port Lockroy, he would have to be thanked, but it is for much,
much more. And for Jane, for putting up with me.
Ken Pawson, another legendary Fid, and another writer of a great book. Ken
wrote the greatest Antarctic poem of all time.
Laura Snow, whose father, Ashley Snow, was on USAS 1939–41. I’d have
missed so much without this wonderful lady.
Keith Holmes. Keith has done a lot for Antarctica, and he did a lot for me
in the compilation of this book. A great Fid.
Gus Shinn, the legendary flyer, the first man to land a plane at the South
Pole. Thanks for all for the great chats, Gus.
British Antarctic Survey Archives Service. Ellen B azeley-W hite and Joanna
Rae.
John Gillies, Henk Broelsma, and Syd Kirkby in Oz.
Neil Sandford in NZ.
Heather Lane and that great Fid Jack Reid, of SPRI.
My friends who looked after me, either with supplies or encouragement dur-
ing the 41⁄ -year, 15-hour a day every day effort. Just to mention Jane Singer hardly
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seems sufficient; Peg O’Connell; Robbie & Jan Noffsinger; Mikey Little; my own
family; Glenn Stein; that great Fid Tommy Thomson; Renée Landau in New
York; Nancy Lee Williams Hersch Ingram and Cdr. Steve Hersch, USNR, in
Manassas; eminent Russian doctor Viktor Nikolayevich Anenyev; John Hess,
without whom I’d be a raving lunatic every time my computer got a glitch; Emile
and Judy Pandolfi; Janie Trench, who always offered her wonderful house in
Jamaica; Noel R.O. Smith; Rich Halverson; Sandy Barrett, Edie & John Crutcher.
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REFACE
This is the second edition of Antarctica: An Encyclopedia. ably, the SCAR composite gazetteer, in which each feature is
The first edition came out in 1990. There is nothing in that given an ID number. As of the time of writing this book, there
old edition that doesn’t appear in this new one, except for the were almost 20,000 such numbers. When you enter an ID
tedious chronology, and the occasional error. Of course, there number, you get all the entries pertaining to that number as
is a great deal of information in this new edition that was not they have been gazetteered by various countries. The size of
in the old edition. the descriptor varies, one entry from another. Each relevant
That first edition was, as this one is, an A–Z of Antarc- country’s entry for each ID number had to be examined for
tica, incorporating geographical features, expeditions, people, this book, and, given that each ID number may have one,
scientific subjects, and entries of general interest. It is a direct two, three, or more entries, that’s in the order of between
entry encyclopedia—you don’t have to make any guesses based 50,000 and 100,000 entries to study, which is one of the rea-
on logical or hierarchical principles to find what you are look- sons this book took four years to compile. Naturally, a project
ing for. There are, however, numerous cross- references to as huge as SCAR’s is going to be prone to error. One of the
facilitate use. useful by- elements of this book might then be another eye
Information for the geographical features in this book going over the SCAR data.
had to come primarily from national gazetteers, current and The date that a feature was accepted by a country’s nam-
old. Many, many of the features have alternative names—the ing body is important. Again, one has to rely mainly on the
Chileans might call a feature by one name, the Argentines gazetteers—current and old—for this information. Some give
another, the British another, and the Americans may use yet precise dates, others give just the year, while some give no date
a fourth name. All completely different. In addition, a great at all. Some give January 1of a given year, but this is not only
number of features have had their names changed, some several a meaningless device, it is also misleading.
times. The British gazetteer, particularly, often goes into con- As for place naming committees, the terms U S-A CAN
siderable depth with the history of a feature, but this invalu- (U.S. Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names) and U K-A PC
able information is presented in a way that is nearly unreadable (UK Antarctic Placenames Committee) are self-explanatory.
to the layman. The present work has digested this information ANCA (Antarctic Names Committee of Australia) is Aus-
for the benefit of the reader without reducing the level of detail tralian. I have used the term NZ- APC (NZ Antarctic Place-
in the original. In addition, the S panish-l anguage gazetteers, names Committee) throughout this book regardless of whether
for example, which contain so much unique information, have it was actually officially called N Z-A PC at the time of naming,
not been translated, so one is somewhat stuck, unless one reads or the NZ Board of Geographic Names, or some other name.
Spanish. This book, again, has presented this information in It is the shortest, least confusing, and most readily identifiable
English, often for the first time. way to write the name of the NZ naming body, and it makes
In recent years, SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic no difference whether it was strictly speaking N Z-A PC at the
Research) has produced a monstrous gazett eer, collating entries time.
from all the international gazetteers, and called, rather reason-
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A N A
OTE ON LPHABETIZATION
Entries are arranged alphabetically word by word (rather Hamby of Boston(a ship), Hamby Strait, Hamby Valley, etc.—
than letter by letter), under the primary word (frequently, the all entries where the primary word comes first (thus they are
proper name), avoiding inversions except of persons’ names. subalphabetized by the second word).
Inversion, particularly of names in a range of languages, can Hyphens are to be ignored, both those that join complete
often be confusing or misleading. words (example: “All-Blacks,” which would be found under
Often there are several entries with the same primary All) and those that are orthographic conventions within words
word, but with it appearing in various positions. Using a ficti- (“Lake O-ike,” for instance, which would be listed, not at the
tious entry name, Hamby, this is the order of precedence for very beginning of the O’s as if O were the primary word, but
the Hamby entries: under Oike as if the hyphen did not exist).
1. The Hamby(a ship); or The Hamby(a geographic fea- A decision was made, because the alternative proved
ture). unacceptable, that names like “Mount A. Beck,” “Mount S.
2. Cape Hamby, Isla Hamby, Mount Hamby, etc., geo- Hassel,” etc., would come at the beginning of the A’s and S’s
graphic features where the primary (proper) word comes sec- respectively, as if “A.” and “S.” were the primary words. Even
ond or even third, and thus the entry is subalphabetized by so, such entries are frequently merely “see” references (as is
the first word(s). “Mount A. Beck see Beck Peak”).
3. Hamby (person’s name; first name unknown). Proper last names consisting of two or more parts (La
4. Hamby, Capt. (person’s name; only a rank or title Grange or Van der Essen) are alphabetized as if all one word
known). (Lagrange or Vanderessen).
5. Hamby, Gwyn; Hamby, Zetta, etc.—personal name Mc, Mac and M’ entries have been listed together, under
entries where both first and last names are known. These Mac, as if there were no difference.
entries, and the ones in 4. above, are the only ones to be All entries are alphabetized without reference to English-
inverted, partly to make it clear at a glance that they are entries language definite and indefinite articles. For convenience,
for persons and partly because the reader expects this conven- non–English language articles are, however, incorporated into
tion. the alphabetization (Las Palmas, the ship, is word-by-word
6. Hamby Bluff, Hamby Cliffs, Hamby Mountains, The under L). All accents are ignored in alphabetization.
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H E N C Y C L O P E D I A
Dome A see Dome Argus sector of the Latady Mountains, on the Lassiter bell’s Northern Party during BAE 1910-13, and
AAE see Australasian Antarctic Expedition Coast of Palmer Land. Mapped by USGS from named for George P. Abbott. U S-A CAN ac-
AAE Glacier. 67°35' S, 145°37' E. A glacier, ground surveys and USN air photos taken be- cepted the name in 1949.
NE of Mertz Glacier, in George V Land. Named tween 1965 and 1967. Named by US- ACAN in Abbott, George Percy. b. March 10, 1880, 22
by ANCA on Aug. 12, 2010, for the Australasian 1968, for W.T. “Henry” Aaron, electrician who Trinder Road, Islington, London, but raised in
Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14. w intered-o ver at Pole Station in 1963. It appears Northampton, son of silk salesman John Abbott
Mount A. Beck see Beck Peak on the 1969 USGS sketch map of Ellsworth and his wife Fanny Elizabeth Ingman. He joined
Canal A. Cerda see Aguirre Passage L and-P almer Land. U K-A PC accepted the name the RN, and was serving on the Excellent as a
Mount A. Ditte see Mount Ditte on Dec. 20, 1974. petty officer when he went on BAE 1910-13. He
The “A” Factor. The Antarctic factor. Un- Aaron Glacier. 85°08' S, 90°40' W. A glacier, was one of Campbell’s Northern Party, and went
foreseen difficulties or disasters. 6.5 km long, it flows E from the Ford Massif be- mad on his return to Hut Point. For some time
Sommet A. Gaudry see Mount Gaudry tween Janulis Spur and Gray Spur in the Thiel during World War I he was attached to the Naval
Mount A. Lindstrøm see Lindstrøm Peak Mountains. Peter Bermel and Art Ford, co-lead- Air Service. He married Emily Soutar in
Glaciar Aagaard see Aagaard Glacier ers of the USGS Thiel Mountains Party of 1960- Northampton in 1916, and they lived in Henlow,
Aagaard Glacier. 66°46' S, 64°31' W. Also 61, named it for John Marshall Aaron III, geol- Beds. Flying Officer Abbott (as he had been since
spelled Aagard or Ågård. 13 km long, close E of ogist in that party and in a similar party the 1919) died of pneumonia at Henlow Aerodrome,
Gould Glacier, and directly N of Karpf Point, following year. U S-A CAN accepted the name near Hitchin, Herts, on Nov. 22, 1923, and was
it is the most easterly of 3 glaciers that flow in a on Dec. 31, 1962. buried at Northampton four days later. His son,
general southerly direction into the head of Mill Aas, Fredrik. b. Norway. Skipper of the Fleu- Lt. Cdr. Don Abbott, disappeared over the En-
Inlet, on the Foyn Coast, on the E coast of Gra- rusduring her last Antarctic voyage, 1930-31. glish Channel in 1950.
ham Land. Charted by Fids from Base D in Abbey Nunatak. 85°37' S, 134°43' W. A Abbott, William Joseph. b. 1850, Rochester,
1946-47, plotted by them in 66°44' S, 64°29' W, nunatak, 3.2 km SE of Penrod Nunatak, at the Kent, son of S uffolk-b orn sailor Joseph Abbott
and named by them for Consul Bjarne Aagaard W side of Reedy Glacier, just N of the mouth and his wife Esther Gowers (they weren’t really
(1873-1956), Norwegian Antarctic bibliogr apher, of Kansas Glacier. Mapped by USGS from married, as such). His mother died when he was
historian, and authority on whaling. Pho- ground surveys, and USN air photos taken be- four. He joined the Navy, as an engineer, and
tographed aerially in Dec. 1947 by RARE 1947- tween 1960 and 1964. Named by U S-A CAN in was assistant engineer on the ChallengerExpe-
48. U K-A PC accepted the name on Jan. 22, 1967 for Gordon Abbey (b. March 19, 1933. d. dition 1872-76. In 1881he was engineer on the
1951, and U S-A CAN followed suit on Dec. 31, Sept. 18, 1985, Seattle), radioman who w intered- Blanche, later served on the Buzzard, and was
1952. It appears in the British gazetteer of 1955. over at Byrd Station in 1957. fleet engineer on the St. George. He married
The Argentines call it Glaciar Aagaard, and it Abbot Ice Shelf. 72°45' S, 96°00' W. About Emily Maria “Emmie” Spittle in Portsmouth in
first appears as such on an Argentine map of 1957 400 km long and 63 km wide, it fronts the 1886, and retired there with his wife and family.
(well, almost—it was spelled Aargaard; they got Eights Coast from Cape Waite to Phrogner Unfortunately, Abbott went insane, and spent
the mis-spelling from a British chart of that year Point. Thurston Island lies along the N edge of the last part of his life in the Royal Naval Lunatic
that had also misspelled it). The Chileans call it the W half of this ice shelf; other sizable islands Asylum, in Great Yarmouth, where he died on
Glaciar Alderete, after Gerónimo de Alderete (Sherman, Carpenter, Dustin, Johnson, McNa- Feb. 10, 1906. He was the second man from the
(1516-1556), governor of Chile and Terra Aus- mara, Farwell, and Dendtler) lie wholly or partly Challenger to go that way (see Allen, Alfred
tralis. It first appears as such on a Chilean chart within it. Sighted in Feb. 1940 on flights from Joseph).
of 1963, and then in the Chilean gazetteer of the Bear. during USAS 1939-41. Its W portion Abbott Ice Shelf see Abbot Ice Shelf
1974. It has since been re-plotted. was delineated from air photos taken during Abbott Island. 64°06' S, 62°08' W. A little
Aagaard Islands. 65°51' S, 53°40' E. Also OpHJ 1946-47. The full extent of the shelf was island, 1.5 km W of Davis Island, off the NE side
spelled Aagard or Ågård. Also called Bjarne Aa- mapped by USGS from air photos taken by of Brabant Island, between that island and Liège
gaard Islands, Bjarne Aagard Islands. A group of USN in 1966. Named by U S-A CAN in 1968, Island, in the S part of, and near the head of,
10 or more small islands between 1and 3 km W for Rear Adm. James Lloyd “Doc” Abbot, Jr. (b. Bouquet Bay, in the Palmer Archipelago.
of Proclamation Island and Cape Batterbee, in June 26, 1918, Mobile, Ala.), commanding Roughly charted by FrAE 1903-05. Pho-
Enderby Land. Discovered on Jan. 13, 1930 by officer of U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, tographed aerially by FIDASE in 1956-57, and
BANZARE and named by Mawson for Bjarne Feb. 25, 1967 to June 1969. mapped from these photos by FIDS cartogra-
Aagaard (seeAagaard Glacier). US- ACAN ac- Isla Abbott see Abbott Island phers in 1959. Named by U K-A PC on Sept. 23,
cepted the name in 1947, and ANCA followed Islas Abbott see Abbott Island 1960, for Maude Abbott (1869-1940), U.S. au-
suit on Nov. 24, 1953. Mount Abbott. 74°42' S, 163°50' E. Rising thority on congenital heart disease. US- ACAN
Aagot Grunning see Expedition Rock to 1020 m, 5 km NE of Cape Canwe, it is the accepted the name later that year. It appears on
Mount Aaron. 74°31' S, 64°53' W. Rising to highest point in the Northern Foothills of Terra a British chart of 1961. It appears on a Chilean
about 1500 m, W of Nantucket Inlet, in the NW Nova Bay, in Victoria Land. Mapped by Camp- chart of 1961, as Isla Abbott, and also, as such,
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2 Abbott Peak
in their 1974 gazetteer. The Argentines pluralized nunatak, 3 km E of Hutcheson Nunataks, at the elly alluvial plain cut by braided streams at the
it in their 1991gazetteer, as Islas Abbott. head of Balchen Glacier, in Marie Byrd Land. head of Brandy Bay, James Ross Island. Surveyed
Abbott Peak. 77°26' S, 166°55' E. Also called Mapped by USGS from ground surveys, and by Fids from Base D in 1952-54. Named by U K-
Abbott’s Peak, Demetri’s Peak, and Dimitri Peak USN air photos taken between 1959 and 1965. A PC on April 3, 1984, for Thomas Abernethy.
(sic; but named after Demetri Gerof). A pyram- Named by U S-A CAN in 1966, for C.A. Abele, It appears in the British gazetteer of 1986.
idal peak on Ross Island, on the N side of Mount Jr. Cerro El Abismo see under E
Erebus, between that mountain and Mount Bird. Abele Spur. 83°13' S, 51°05' W. A rock spur, Punta Ablación see Ablation Point
Charted by BAE 1910-13, and named for George rising to about 1600 m, that descends W from Ablation. The wearing away of a rock or gla-
P. Abbott. It appears in the 1958 NZ provisional Mount Lechner toward Herring Nunataks, in cier, or any snow or ice surface, by any means.
gazetteer. U S-A CAN accepted the name in 1964. the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains. Ablation is offset by accumulation.
Abbott Spur. 78°16' S, 161°55' E. A ridge in Photographed by USN in 1964, and surveyed Ablation Bay see Ablation Valley
the immediate vicinity of Allison Glacier, in the from the ground by USGS in 1965-66, during Ablation Camp see Ablation Valley
Royal Society Range of Victoria Land. Named their Pensacola Mountains Project. Named by Ablation Col. 70°49' S, 68°33' W. A col link-
by US- ACAN in 1994 for Robin Abbott (b. U S-A CAN, at the suggestion of Art Ford, for ing Ablation Valley with Jupiter Glacier, on the
1952), of Antarctic Support Associates, coordi- Gunars Abele (b. 1934, Latvia. d. Aug. 27, 1989), E coast of Alexander Island. Named by U K-A PC
nator for Helicopter Field Operations at Mc- civil engineer on the USARP-CRREL survey of on Jan. 18, 2002, in association with the valley.
Murdo in the 1990s. She had begun her Antarctic the area in 1973-74. UK- APC accepted the Ablation Lake. 70°49' S, 68°26' W. A pro-
career there as a janitor in 1985-86. name on May 21, 1979. glacial tidal lake in Ablation Valley, on the E
Abbott’s Peak see Abbott Peak Cabo Abenante. 77°40' S, 41°58' W. A cape coast of Alexander Island. It has stratified saline
Mount Abbs. 70°35' S, 66°38' E. At 2134 m, in the extreme W of Bahía Chica, in the S of the and fresh water, and depths exceeding 117 m,
the most prominent peak in the central part of Weddell Sea. Formerly and provisionally called and is dammed in its upper portion by ice that
the Aramis Range, about 18 km SSE of Mount Cabo Q by the Argentines, they re-named it in pushes into the lake from the adjacent George
McCarthy, in the Prince Charles Mountains, sit- 1958 for Mario Bruno Abenante, conscript of VI Ice Shelf. Following BAS limnological re-
uated just W of Thomson Massif. Shaped like a the class of 1934, who lost his life in the search from 1973, it was named by UK- APC on
truncated pyramid, it is 4 km long in an E-W Argentine political events of Sept. 1955. Dec. 8, 1977, in association with Ablation Valley.
direction, and 2 km in a N-S, and has an almost Abendroth Peak. 71°05' S, 62°00' W. About U S-A CAN accepted the name in 1978. It ap-
vertical face on its N side. Discovered in Dec. 1.2 km S of the head of Lehrke Inlet, and 6.2 km pears in the British gazetteer of 1980.
1956 by the ANARE Southern Party led by Bill NE of Stockton Peak, on the divide between Ablation Point. 70°48' S, 68°22' W. The E
Bewsher, and named by ANCA on July 22, 1957, Murrish Glacier and Gain Glacier, on the Black extremity of a hook- shaped rock ridge rising to
for Gordon Lindsay Abbs (b. Nov. 5, 1920, Pi- Coast of Palmer Land. Photographed from the about 550 m, and which forms and marks the
alba, Qld. d. 1999), radio operator who w int ered- air by USN in 1966, surveyed from the ground N side of the entrance to Ablation Valley, on the
over at Mawson Station that year. He had been by BAS personnel from Base E in 1972-73, and E coast of Alexander Island. First photographed,
on Macquarie Island in 1952. US- ACAN ac- mapped by USGS from these efforts. They plot- aerially, by Lincoln Ellsworth on Nov. 23, 1935,
cepted the name in 1962. ted it in 71°06' S, 61°58' W. Named by US- and mapped from these photos by U.S. cartog-
The A bel- J. British yacht which chartered out ACAN in 1976, for Ernst Karl Abendroth (b. rapher W.L.G. Joerg in 1936. Roughly surveyed
as a tourist vessel in the South Shetlands, the Sept. 8, 1935, NY. d. Sept. 15, 1969, Litchfield, in 1936 by BGLE 1934-37, it was re-surveyed by
South Orkneys, and the waters around the Conn.), USARP biologist at Palmer Station in FIDS in early 1949, and used by them as a site
Antarctic Peninsula, in 1990-91, under the com- 1968. U K-A PC accepted the name on July 21, for depots. Named by Fuchs in association with
mand of Hamilton Carter. In 1992-93, again 1976. It has since been re-plotted. Ablation Valley. U K-A PC accepted the name on
under Mr. Carter, she and the Damien IIwere Abercrombie Crests. 81°00' S, 160°09' E. A March 31, 1955, and U S-A CAN followed suit in
in at the South Shetlands and the Antarctic cluster of rock summits rising to 1259 m, 14 km 1956. The Argentines call it Punta Ablación,
Peninsula, taking Alastair Fotherill’s BBC crew SSE of Mount Deleon, in the N part of the Dar- which means the same thing, and it appears as
around as they filmed wildlife. She was back, ley Hills, in the Churchill Mountains. Named such in their 1991gazetteer.
chartering out to tours in the same places, in by U S-A CAN on Jan. 24, 2003, for the leg- Ablation Valley. 70°48' S, 68°30' W. A
1994-95 and 1996-97, under the command of J. endary Thomas James “Tom” Abercrombie (b. mainly i ce-f ree valley, trending W-E for 3 km,
Richard Farrell. She was back in 1997-98, under Aug. 13, 1930, Stillwater, Minn. d. April 3, 2006, it is entered immediately S of Ablation Point,
the command of Robert Wallace. Baltimore), of the National Geographic Magazine and opens on George VI Sound, on the E coast
Abel Nunatak. 63°33' S, 57°41' W. The more Foreign Editorial staff from 1956, on assignment of Alexander Island. First photographed, aerially,
easterly of two isolated nunataks, rising to about in Antarctica, 1957-58, and who won a lottery on Nov. 23, 1935, by Lincoln Ellsworth. It was
200 m, on the S side of Broad Valley, Trinity to be the first civilian reporter at the Pole (see first visited on land by BGLE 1934-37, who, in
Peninsula, off the Antarctic Peninsula. Named South Pole, Oct. 26, 1957, for what happened Oct. 1936, surveyed it, and named it Ablation
following a 1960-61geological survey by FIDS, to him at the Pole). N Z-A PC accepted the name Bay (at least that’s what they named the part at
in association with nearby Cain Nunatak. UK- on Feb. 27, 2003. its mouth), for the small amounts of snow and
A PC accepted the name on Feb. 12, 1964, and Abernethy, Thomas. b. 1802, Peterhead, Ab- ice here. They set up a camp here, called
US- ACAN followed suit that year. erdeenshire. An able seaman on the Hecla, 1824- Ablation Camp. Mapped by U.S. cartographer
Abele, Clarence Arthur, Jr. b. April 23, 1911, 25, he was still on that ship in 1827, under Parry, W.L.G. Joerg in 1936, from Ellsworth’s photos.
Conn., son of naval lieutenant (later naval at ta - when they tried for the North Pole in boats. He BGLE mapped their version in 1938. UK- APC
ché and captain) Clarence Arthur Abele by his was with Sir John Ross on the Victory, in the redefined it, as Ablation Valley, on Sept. 8, 1953,
second wife. Known as Arthur, he and his twin Arctic, 1829-33, and was in the Antarctic, with and U S-A CAN followed suit in 1955. It appears
brother Sanford (which was also his mother’s Ross’s nephew, James Clark Ross, on the Erebus in the British gazetteer of 1955 as Ablation Valley,
maiden name) were raised partially by their San- during RossAE 1839-43. In 1848-49 he was gun- plotted in 70°49' S, 68°25' W. It has since been
ford grandparents. He was living in Boston when ner and ice master in the Arctic again, with re-plotted by a 1978-79 University of Aberdeen
he went south on the Bear of Oaklandas part of James Clark Ross, and was with Sir John Ross party, who were supported by BAS.
ByrdAE 1933-35, and was one of the shore party again, in 1850-51, on the Felix. In 1852 he was Aboa Station. 73°03' S, 13°25' W. Finnish
on that expedition. He died on July 23, 1978, in 1st mate on the Isabel, under Capt. Inglefield. scientific station established in 1988-89 on Basen
Santa Clara, Calif. He died on April 13, 1860, at Peterhead. Nunatak, 400 m above sea level, in the Kraul
Abele Nunatak. 76°18' S, 143°15' W. A Abernethy Flats. 63°52' S, 57°54' W. A grav- Mountains, 130 km from the Princess Martha