List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

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Location of the Ross Dependency in Antarctica, target area of ​​the Nimrod expedition

This is a list of the geographical objects (mountain ranges, mountains, glaciers, notches, valleys, rock formations, cliffs, islands, capes, bays, beaches and lakes) that were discovered during the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) to Antarctica under the direction of British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton were discovered and named in the Ross Dependency . Names and ident numbers (Antarctic ID) were assigned by the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names . Additional entries appeared in the New Zealand Provisional Gazetteer of the Ross Dependency's 1958 Temporary New Zealand Geographical Dictionary .

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Antarctic ID Surname Landscape type Geographic coordinates named after credentials
69 Adams Mountains mountain range 84 ° 30 ′  S , 166 ° 20 ′  E Jameson Adams (1880–1962), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
204 Albrecht Penck Glacier glacier 76 ° 40 ′  S , 162 ° 20 ′  E Albrecht Penck (1858–1945), German geographer and geologist geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
270 Alice Glacier glacier 83 ° 58 ′  S , 170 ° 0 ′  E Alice Marshall, mother of the chief physician of the Nimrod expedition Eric Marshall (1879–1963) geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
287 Cape Allen cape 83 ° 33 ′  S , 171 ° 0 ′  E Robert Calder Allen (1812–1903), skipper of the Resolute under Horatio Thomas Austin on the Belcher expedition to search for the missing Franklin expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
295 Mount Allen Young mountain 83 ° 27 '  S , 166 ° 52'  E Allen Young (1827–1915), captain of the Fox for Francis Leopold McClintock's search for the missing Franklin expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
475 Mount Anne mountain 83 ° 56 '  S , 169 ° 20'  E Anne (Ann) Dawson-Lambton (1835 – unknown), sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
606 Mount Army Days mountain 76 ° 2 ′  S , 160 ° 45 ′  E Bertram Armytage (1869–1910), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
659 Asquith Bluff cliff 83 ° 30 ′  S , 167 ° 21 ′  E Herbert Henry Asquith (1852–1928), British Prime Minister geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
713 Mount Augusta mountain 84 ° 48 ′  S , 163 ° 6 ′  E Augusta Swinford-Edwards, relative of Ernest Shackleton geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
819 Backdoor Bay bay 77 ° 34 '  S , 166 ° 12'  E "The Back Door Bay" on the east side of Cape Royds geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
823 Backstairs Passage Glacier glacier 75 ° 2 ′  S , 162 ° 36 ′  E “The Servant Rising Glacier”, an ironic name because of the long and arduous ascent to the northern polar plateau geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
1035 Mount Bartlett mountain 84 ° 56 '  S , 163 ° 56'  E Herbert Henry Bartlett (1842–1921), sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
1122 Beardmore Glacier glacier 83 ° 45 ′  S , 171 ° 0 ′  E William Beardmore (1856–1936), sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
1189 Mount Bell mountain 84 ° 4 ′  S , 167 ° 30 ′  E William Bell, cousin of Ernest Shackleton and sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
1320 Berwick Glacier glacier 84 ° 36 '  S , 165 ° 45'  E HMS Berwick , a ship on which the deputy head of the Nimrod expedition Jameson Adams had served geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
1391 Bingley Glacier glacier 84 ° 29 ′  S , 167 ° 10 ′  E Bingley , West Yorkshire and ancestral home of the Ernest Shackletons family geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
1476 Blacksand Beach Beach 77 ° 34 '  S , 166 ° 9'  E "The black sand beach" geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
1551 Blue Lake lake 77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 11'  E "The blue lake" geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
1622 Mount Bonaparte mountain 83 ° 0 ′  S , 160 ° 50 ′  E Roland Bonaparte (1858–1924), President of the Société de Géographie geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
1971 Mount Brocklehurst mountain 76 ° 8 ′  S , 161 ° 27 ′  E Philip Brocklehurst (1887–1975), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
2092 Mount Buckley mountain 84 ° 58 '  S , 163 ° 56'  E George Alexander McLean Buckley (1866–1937), sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
2094 Buckley Island mountain 84 ° 57 ′  S , 164 ° 0 ′  E George Alexander McLean Buckley (1866–1937), sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
2414 Mount Cara mountain 82 ° 45 ′  S , 161 ° 6 ′  E unknown, probably derived from the Irish "Mo Anam Cara" for "my soul mate" geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
2559 Mount Cecily mountain 85 ° 52 ′  S , 174 ° 15 ′  E Cecily Shackleton (1906–1957), Ernest Shackleton's daughter geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
2703 Cheetham ice tongue glacier 75 ° 45 ′  S , 162 ° 55 ′  E Alfred Cheetham (1867–1918), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
2824 Mount Clarke mountain 85 ° 5 ′  S , 172 ° 18 ′  E Rupert Clarke (1865–1926), sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
2828 Clarke Glacier glacier 75 ° 34 '  S , 162 ° 5'  E Rupert Clarke (1865–1926), sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
2859 Clear Lake lake 77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 10'  E "The clear lake" geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
2899 The Cloudmaker mountain 84 ° 17 '  S , 169 ° 25'  E "The cloud maker" geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
2912 Coast Lake lake 77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 9'  E "The coastal lake" geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
3003 Commonwealth Range mountain range 84 ° 15 ′  S , 172 ° 20 ′  E Commonwealth of Australia geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
3078 Conway Range mountain range 79 ° 16 ′  S , 159 ° 30 ′  E unknown, probably William Martin Conway (1856–1937), British mountaineer geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
3372 Mount Crummer mountain 75 ° 30 '  S , 162 ° 34'  E unknown, probably Henry Samuel Walker Crummer (1839–1921), Australian surveyor geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
3441 Mount Cyril mountain 84 ° 2 ′  S , 172 ° 35 ′  E Cyril Longhurst (1878–1948), Secretary of the Discovery Expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
3533 Mount Darwin mountain 85 ° 2 ′  S , 163 ° 8 ′  E Leonard Darwin (1850–1943), President of the Royal Geographical Society geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
3554 David Glacier glacier 75 ° 19 ′  S , 162 ° 0 ′  E Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1858–1934), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
3582 Davis glacier glacier 75 ° 45 ′  S , 162 ° 10 ′  E John King Davis (1884–1967), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
3607 Cape Day cape 76 ° 18 ′  S , 162 ° 46 ′  E Bernard Day (1884–1934), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
3621 Mount Deakin mountain 84 ° 40 ′  S , 170 ° 40 ′  E Alfred Deakin (1856-1919), Australian Prime Minister geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
3667 Deep Lake lake 77 ° 34 '  S , 166 ° 15'  E "The deep lake" geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
3752 Depot Island island 76 ° 42 '  S , 162 ° 58'  E Island on which the so-called northern group of the Nimrod expedition left geological samples collected geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
3965 Dominion Range mountain range 85 ° 20 ′  S , 166 ° 30 ′  E Dominion of New Zealand geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
3968 Mount Donaldson mountain 84 ° 37 ′  S , 172 ° 12 ′  E Isabella Donaldson (1885 – unknown), British stage actress geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
4132 Dudley Head mountain 84 ° 18 ′  S , 172 ° 15 ′  E William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley (1867–1932), Governor General of Australia geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
4173 Cape Dunlop cape 77 ° 15 ′  S , 163 ° 29 ′  E Henry Dunlop (1876–1931), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
4174 Dunlop Island island 77 ° 14 ′  S , 163 ° 30 ′  E Henry Dunlop (1876–1931), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
4197 D'Urville Wall cliff 75 ° 16 '  S , 162 ° 13'  E Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842), French navigator and polar explorer geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
4427 Mount Elizabeth mountain 83 ° 54 '  S , 168 ° 23'  E Elizabeth Dawson-Lambton (1836 – unknown), sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
4492 Mount Emily mountain 85 ° 50 ′  S , 174 ° 20 ′  E Emily Shackleton (1868–1936), Ernest Shackleton's wife geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
4656 Evans Cove bay 74 ° 53 '  S , 163 ° 48'  E Frederick Pryce Evans (1874–1959), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
4985 Flagstaff Point cape 77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 10'  E "The place of the flagpole", which participants of the Nimrod expedition set up here geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
5066 Mount FL Smith mountain 83 ° 38 '  S , 169 ° 29'  E Finlay L. Smith (1829–1911), Scottish tobacco producer and sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
5205 Mount Fox mountain 83 ° 38 '  S , 169 ° 15'  E Agnes Susan Fox (1857–1913), sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
5358 Fry glacier glacier 76 ° 38 '  S , 162 ° 18'  E Albert Magnus Fry (1857–1938), Scottish chocolate producer and sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
5514 The gateway Notch 83 ° 31 '  S , 170 ° 58'  E "The Gate [to the South]", passage from the Ross Ice Shelf to the Beardmore Glacier geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
5945 Granite Pillars Rock formation 83 ° 36 '  S , 170 ° 45'  E "The Granite Columns" geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
6004 Green Lake lake 77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 9'  E "The green lake" geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
6355 Harbord Glacier glacier 75 ° 50 ′  S , 162 ° 24 ′  E Arthur Edward Harbord (1883–1961), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
6356 Harbord glacier tongue glacier 75 ° 50 ′  S , 162 ° 50 ′  E Arthur Edward Harbord (1883–1961), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
6364 Mount Harcourt mountain 83 ° 49 ′  S , 172 ° 25 ′  E Robert Venables Vernon Harcourt (1878–1962), British MP for the Liberal Party , who campaigned for the British government to support the Nimrod Expedition financially geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
6548 Heart Lake lake 77 ° 35 '  S , 166 ° 17'  E "The heart-shaped lake" geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
6658 Mount Henry mountain 83 ° 52 '  S , 172 ° 4'  E unknown, probably Ernest Shackleton's father Henry Shackleton (1847–1920) geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
6664 Mount Henry Lucy mountain 85 ° 11 ′  S , 170 ° 26 ′  E William Henry Lucy (1842-1924), British journalist geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
6952 Hood glacier glacier 83 ° 55 ′  S , 173 ° 10 ′  E Horace Hood (1870-1916), British Rear Admiral geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
6967 Mount Hope mountain 83 ° 31 '  S , 171 ° 16'  E "The Mountain of Hope", after which the so-called southern group of the Nimrod Expedition found a suitable route to the geographic South Pole with the Beardmore Glacier geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
7183 Hunt glacier glacier 76 ° 52 '  S , 162 ° 25'  E Henry Ambrose Hunt (1866–1946), Australian meteorologist who helped analyze scientific data from the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
7259 Mount Ida mountain 83 ° 35 '  S , 170 ° 29'  E Ida Jane Rule, later wife of the New Zealand journalist Edward Saunders (1882–1922), co-author of The Heart of the Antarctic geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
7412 Mount Iveagh mountain 85 ° 4 ′  S , 169 ° 38 ′  E Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927), sponsor of the Nimrod Expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
7677 Mount Joyce mountain 75 ° 36 '  S , 160 ° 49'  E Ernest Joyce (1875–1940), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
7786 Mount Kathleen mountain 83 ° 46 '  S , 172 ° 48'  E Kathleen Shackleton (1884–1961), Ernest Shackleton's sister geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
7838 Keltie glacier glacier 84 ° 53 ′  S , 170 ° 20 ′  E John Scott Keltie (1840–1927), Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
7938 Mount Kinsey mountain 84 ° 55 '  S , 169 ° 18'  E Joseph James Kinsey (1852–1936), agent of the Nimrod Expedition in New Zealand geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
7994 Mount Kirkpatrick mountain 84 ° 20 ′  S , 166 ° 25 ′  E Alexander Bryce Kirkpatrick (1865 – unknown), Scottish stockbroker and sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
8075 Knobhead Moraine moraine 77 ° 51 ′  S , 161 ° 36 ′  E Knobhead geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
8316 Mount Kyffin mountain 83 ° 48 ′  S , 171 ° 38 ′  E Evan Kyffin-Thomas (1866–1935), an Australian journalist friend with Ernest Shackleton geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
8531 Larsen Glacier glacier 75 ° 6 ′  S , 162 ° 28 ′  E Carl Anton Larsen (1860–1924), participant in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
8647 Mount Lecointe mountain 83 ° 9 ′  S , 161 ° 9 ′  E George Lecointe (1869–1929), Belgian geophysicist and participant in the Belgica expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
8940 Mount Lloyd mountain 83 ° 13 '  S , 165 ° 44'  E unknown, probably Humphrey Lloyd (1800–1881), Irish physicist geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
8956 Mount Lockwood mountain 84 ° 9 ′  S , 167 ° 24 ′  E Charles Barett Lockwood (1856–1914), British surgeon and friend of the senior physician of the Nimrod expedition Eric Marshall (1879–1963) geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
9175 Mount Lysaght mountain 82 ° 49 ′  S , 161 ° 19 ′  E Gerald Stuart Lysaght (1868–1951), friend of Ernest Shackleton geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
9219 Mackay Glacier glacier 76 ° 58 ′  S , 162 ° 0 ′  E Alistair Mackay (1878–1914), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
9226 Mount Mackellar mountain 83 ° 59 ′  S , 166 ° 39 ′  E Campbell Mackellar, Nimrod Expedition sponsor geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
9241 Mount Mackintosh mountain 74 ° 22 ′  S , 161 ° 49 ′  E Aeneas Mackintosh (1879–1916), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
9372 Marble Point cape 77 ° 26 '  S , 163 ° 50'  E "The Marble Point " geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
9449 Mount Marshall mountain 84 ° 41 ′  S , 164 ° 39 ′  E Eric Marshall (1879–1963), chief physician of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
9452 Marshall Mountains mountain range 84 ° 37 ′  S , 164 ° 30 ′  E Eric Marshall (1879–1963), chief physician of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
9464 Mount Marston mountain 76 ° 54 '  S , 162 ° 12'  E George Marston (1882–1940), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
9577 Cape Maude cape 83 ° 9 ′  S , 168 ° 25 ′  E Edward Addison Maude (1863-1932), sponsor of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
9593 Mawson Glacier glacier 76 ° 13 '  S , 162 ° 5'  E Douglas Mawson (1882–1958), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
9925 Mickle Island island 77 ° 34 '  S , 166 ° 13'  E “Mickle” is a slang word for “big” in English and an ironic term here, as the island is very small geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
9985 Mount Miller mountain 83 ° 20 ′  S , 165 ° 48 ′  E unknown, presumably Malcolm James Miller, New Zealand shipyard owner and later mayor of Lyttelton geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
10006 Mill Glacier glacier 85 ° 10 ′  S , 168 ° 30 ′  E Hugh Robert Mill (1861–1950), Shackleton's friend and participant on the Discovery expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
10013 Mount Mills mountain 85 ° 12 ′  S , 165 ° 17 ′  E James Mills (1847–1936), owner of the Union Steam Ship Company geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
10418 Mount Murray mountain 76 ° 9 ′  S , 161 ° 50 ′  E James Murray (1865–1914), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
10481 Nansen ice cream board glacier 74 ° 53 '  S , 163 ° 10'  E Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian polar explorer geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
10736 Mount Nimrod mountain 85 ° 25 ′  S , 165 ° 45 ′  E Nimrod , ship of the expedition of the same name geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
11434 Mount Patrick mountain 84 ° 13 '  S , 172 ° 0'  E presumably Patrick Dudley Shackleton (1837–1901), Ernest Shackleton's uncle geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
11710 Cape Philippi cape 75 ° 14 '  S , 162 ° 33'  E Emil Philippi (1871-1910), German geologist geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
11893 Plunket Point cape 85 ° 5 ′  S , 167 ° 6 ′  E William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket (1864–1920), Governor of New Zealand geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
11948 Pony Lake lake 77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 10'  E “The Pony Lake”, ponies were used as draft animals on the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
12070 Mount Priestley mountain 75 ° 11 ′  S , 161 ° 53 ′  E Raymond Priestley (1886–1974), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
12127 Prior Island island 75 ° 41 ′  S , 162 ° 52 ′  E George Thurland Prior (1862–1936), British mineralogist who examined the geological samples from the Nimrod expedition for the Natural History Museum geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
12248 Queen Alexandra necklace mountain range 84 ° 0 ′  S , 168 ° 0 ′  E Queen Alexandra (1844–1925), British monarch geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
12285 Mount Rabot mountain 83 ° 11 ′  S , 161 ° 17 ′  E Charles Rabot (1856–1944), French geographer and glaciologist geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
12390 Mount Raymond mountain 85 ° 53 '  S , 174 ° 43'  E Raymond Swinford Shackleton (1905–1960), son of Ernest Shackleton geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
12467 Reeves glacier glacier 74 ° 45 ′  S , 162 ° 15 ′  E William Pember Reeves (1857-1932), New Zealand politician geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
12487 Mount Reid mountain 83 ° 3 '  S , 166 ° 1'  E Alfred Reid (1861–1957), managing director of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
12506 Relief inlet bay 75 ° 13 '  S , 163 ° 45'  E “The Bay of Liberation”, in which the so-called northern group of the Nimnrod expedition was saved in February 1909 geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
12568 Cape Reynolds cape 75 ° 25 ′  S , 162 ° 34 ′  E Jeremiah N. Reynolds (1799–1858), American publicist and adventurer who developed the idea of ​​an expedition to the South Pole in the 1830s geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
12712 Cape Roberts cape 77 ° 2 ′  S , 163 ° 12 ′  E William Roberts (1872 – unknown), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
12718 Mount Robert Scott mountain 83 ° 49 ′  S , 172 ° 48 ′  E Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912), British polar explorer geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
12914 Cape Ross cape 76 ° 44 ′  S , 163 ° 1 ′  E James Clark Ross (1800–1862), British polar explorer geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
13312 Mount Saunders mountain 85 ° 21 ′  S , 165 ° 26 ′  E Edward Saunders (1882–1922), New Zealand journalist and co-author of The Heart of the Antarctic geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
13623 Shackleton Icefalls glacier 85 ° 8 ′  S , 164 ° 0 ′  E Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922), leader of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
14152 Socks glacier glacier 83 ° 42 '  S , 170 ° 5'  E Socks was one of the ponies that the Nimrod expedition used as draft animals for the march to the geographic South Pole geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
14473 Mount Stanley mountain 84 ° 9 ′  S , 165 ° 29 ′  E John Stead Stanley Marshall (1877–1956), brother of the chief physician of the Nimrod expedition Eric Marshall (1879–1963) geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
14766 Mount Suess mountain 77 ° 2 ′  S , 161 ° 42 ′  E Eduard Suess (1831–1914), Austrian geologist geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
14811 Sunk Lake lake 77 ° 34 '  S , 166 ° 15'  E "The sunken lake", which is about 4.5 meters below sea level geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
14919 Swinford Glacier glacier 84 ° 45 ′  S , 164 ° 10 ′  E Raymond Swinford Shackleton (1905–1960), son of Ernest Shackleton geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
15044 Teall Nunatak mountain 74 ° 50 ′  S , 162 ° 33 ′  E Jethro Teall (1849-1924), British geologist and petrologist geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
15137 Terrace Lake lake 77 ° 35 '  S , 166 ° 17'  E "The lake lying on a terrace" geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
15556 Mount Tripp mountain 83 ° 17 '  S , 166 ° 53'  E Leonard Owen Howard Tripp (1862–1957), New Zealand helper on the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
15557 Tripp Bay bay 76 ° 37 '  S , 162 ° 44'  E Leonard Owen Howard Tripp (1862–1957), New Zealand helper on the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
15558 Tripp Island island 76 ° 38 '  S , 162 ° 42'  E Leonard Owen Howard Tripp (1862–1957), New Zealand helper on the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
15813 Mount Usher mountain 84 ° 57 '  S , 172 ° 4'  E John Edward Usher (1854–1918), Australian medical advisor to the Nimrod Expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
16260 Mount Ward mountain 85 ° 40 ′  S , 167 ° 10 ′  E Joseph Ward (1856–1930), New Zealand Prime Minister geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
16455 Mount Westminster mountain 84 ° 59 ′  S , 169 ° 22 ′  E Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879–1953), sponsor of the Nimrod Expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
16490 Bay of Whales bay 78 ° 30 ′  S , 164 ° 20 ′  W "The Bay of Whales" geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
16521 Mount White mountain 85 ° 9 ′  S , 170 ° 18 ′  E allegedly named after a secretary of the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov Text Archive - Internet Archive
16587 Mount Wild mountain 84 ° 48 ′  S , 162 ° 40 ′  E Frank Wild (1873–1939), participant in the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
17727 Mount Cis mountain 77 ° 34 ′  S , 166 ° 17 ′  E Cis was one of the sled dogs that were used as draft animals on the Nimrod expedition geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
17737 Rocky Point cape 77 ° 31 '  S , 166 ° 14'  E "The rocky top" geonames.usgs.gov geographic.org
- Alb Valley valley 74 ° 47 '  S , 163 ° 46'  E "The Choir Shirt Valley " data.aad.gov.au
- Deep Snow Valley valley 77 ° 35 '  S , 166 ° 13'  E "The deep snow valley" data.aad.gov.au
- Derrick Point cape 77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 10'  E “The loading bay place ” at Cape Royds, where the participants of the Nimrod expedition lifted cargo from dinghies onto land using a crane data.aad.gov.au
- Front Door Bay bay 77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 8'  E "The Front Door Bay" on the west side of Cape Royds data.aad.gov.au
- High peak mountain 77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 33'  E "The high peak" data.aad.gov.au
- Home Lake lake 77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 7'  E “The home lake” not far from the winter quarters of the Nimrod expedition data.aad.gov.au
- Old Penguin Rookery Beach 77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 10'  E "The old penguin colony" data.aad.gov.au

Web links

literature

  • Kenneth J. Bertrand, Fred G. Alberts: Geographic Names of Antarctica . US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956 (English, archive.org ).
  • John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia , 2011, p. 20.
  2. ↑ Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia , 2011, p. 411.
  3. ^ Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia , 2011, p. 421.
  4. ↑ Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia , 2011, p. 595.
  5. ^ Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia , 2011, p. 731.
  6. ↑ Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia , 2011, p. 750.
  7. ↑ Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia , 2011, p. 1139.