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Debussy Heights is a minor mountain range rising to 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) east of Mozart Ice Piedmont in the north part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The feature was first spotted and mapped, from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Claude Debussy, the French composer (1862–1918).
Ishmael Peak is a conspicuous detached rock peak in eastern Voden Heights, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Spouter Peak, which marks the north side of the mouth of Leppard Glacier, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 and 1955, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Ishmael, the narrator of Herman Melville's story Moby-Dick.
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Outlaw Rock is an isolated rock, awash at low tide, lying west of the Dion Islands off the south end of Adelaide Island. First charted by the Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1963. So named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) because of its isolation.
Fluke Ridge is a narrow rock ridge rising to about 300 metres (1,000 ft) in southern Aristotle Mountains, on the north side of Flask Glacier near the terminus, on Oscar II Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1987; it is one of several names in the area from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick which reflect a whaling theme.
Fortín Rock is a conspicuous rock or sea stack lying off Black Point, Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The name appears in a 1953 volume of Argentine sailing directions for Antarctica and Argentine charts. In Spanish, "fortín" means small fort. This feature has sometimes been misidentified on charts as Scarborough Castle.
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Harrison Passage is a passage between Larrouy Island and Tadpole Island to the west, and the Llanquihue Islands and the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, to the east. It was photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57, and was mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for John Harrison, an English horologist who first definitely solved the problem of determining longitude at sea.
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Hess Glacier is a glacier 5 nautical miles long, flowing east-northeast between steep rock walls to its terminus 10 nautical miles southwest of Monnier Point, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, who named it for Hans Hess, a German glaciologist.
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Tenorio Rock is a rock 0.4 nautical miles (0.7 km) offshore in western Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. The name derives from the forms "Islote Tenorio" and "Islote Aviador Tenorio" used on Chilean hydrographic charts of the 1950s. Humbert Tenorio Island was second pilot of the Sikorsky helicopter employed by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition of 1947.
Hole Rock is the largest of several rocks lying close north of North Foreland, the northeast cape of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. It was charted in 1937 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II and so named because a conspicuous hole extends through it.
Lewis Bluff is a rock bluff located at the confluence of Paschal Glacier and White Glacier, 7 nautical miles (13 km) southeast of Mount McCoy, in coastal Marie Byrd Land. The bluff was photographed from aircraft of the United States Antarctic Service, 1939–41, and was mapped in detail by the United States Geological Survey, 1959–65. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for David L. Lewis, a United States Antarctic Research Program ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station, 1963.
The Spire is an isolated rock pinnacle at the northwest end of the Blackwall Mountains on the south side of Neny Fjord, Graham Land in Antarctica. It was probably first seen by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) sledging parties in 1936–37, though not specifically mapped. The first ascent was on 17 January 1948, by members of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE). The name was first used in 1949 by William Latady, aerial photographer with RARE.
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- ↑ "Buzfuz Rock". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ↑ John Stewart (1990). "Buzfuz Rock". Antarctica: An Encyclopedia. McFarland & Company. p. 153.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Buzfuz Rock". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
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