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Empereur Island is a rocky island 1.9 kilometres (1 nmi) north of Cape Margerie, lying immediately north of Breton Island in the entrance to Port Martin. It was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47. It was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Andre-Frank Liotard, 1949–51, and so named because the first emperor penguin captured by the expedition was taken on this island.
Cape Découverte or Cape Discovery is the point of rocks which marks the northwest extremity of the Curzon Islands along the Adélie Coast. It was discovered on 21 January 1840, by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville who gave the name "Cap de la Decouverte". It was the first rocky point of the coast seen by members of the expedition.
Posadowsky Glacier is a glacier about 9 nautical miles long, flowing north to Posadowsky Bay immediately east of Gaussberg. Posadowsky Bay is an open embayment, located just east of the West Ice Shelf and fronting on the Davis Sea in Kaiser Wilhelm II Land. Kaiser Wilhelm II Land is the part of East Antarctica lying between Cape Penck, at 87°43'E, and Cape Filchner, at 91°54'E, and is claimed by Australia as part of the Australian Antarctic Territory. Other notable geographic features in this area include Drygalski Island, located 45 mi NNE of Cape Filchner in the Davis Sea, and Mirny Station, a Russian scientific research station.
The Baudin Peaks are a group of peaks rising above 750 metres (2,460 ft), standing at the southeast corner of Mikkelsen Bay, immediately southwest of the mouth of Clarke Glacier, and 9 nautical miles (17 km) east-northeast of Cape Berteaux, on the west coast of Graham Land. This general area was first sighted and roughly charted in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who gave the name "Cap Pierre Baudin" to a cape in this vicinity. The peaks themselves were roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, but no name was assigned to them. They were resurveyed in 1948–49 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, who subsequently identified them as the feature named "Cap Pierre Baudin" by Charcot. Charcot gave the name for Pierre Baudin, then port engineer at Pernambuco, where the Pourquoi-Pas put in on her return from the Antarctic.
Mount Best is a mountain 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) southwest of Mount Morrison, in the Tula Mountains in Enderby Land. It was plotted from air photos taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. It was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for F. Best, a member of the crew of the Discovery during the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) of 1929–31.
Bizeux Rock is a rocky island 0.2 kilometres (0.1 nmi) long lying 0.2 kilometres (0.1 nmi) east of Manchot Island and close northeast of Cape Margerie, Antarctica. It was charted in 1950 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named by them after an island located in the center of the Rance estuary, France.
Bleue Cove is a cove lying immediately east of Cape Margerie. It was charted and named in 1950 by the French Antarctic Expedition; the name is descriptive of the color of the water, after the French word for "blue".
Cézembre Point is a rocky point 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) northeast of Cape Margerie. It was charted in 1950 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named for Cézembre, an island in the Golfe de Saint-Malo, France.
Mount Chauve is a rocky hill, 33 metres (110 ft) high, at the northwestern extremity of Cape Margerie. It was charted and named by the French Antarctic Expedition in 1950. The name is descriptive of the hill's denuded aspect, evoking the celebrated musical score Night on Bald Mountain, "chauve" being a French word for bald.
Kukri Hills is a prominent east-west trending range, about 25 nautical miles (46 km) long and over 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) high, forming the divide between Ferrar Glacier on the south and Taylor Glacier and Taylor Valley on the north, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Cape Streten is an ice cape at the northeast tip of Sakellari Peninsula, forming the west side of the entrance to Amundsen Bay. Plotted from air photos taken by ANARE in November 1956. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for Neil Anthony Streten, meteorologist at Mawson Station in 1960.
Port Martin, or Port-Martin, is an abandoned French research base at Cape Margerie on the coast of Adélie Land, Antarctica, as well as the name of the adjacent anchorage.
Cape Ducorps is a point marking the north end of Cockerell Peninsula on the north coast of Trinity Peninsula. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for Louis Ducorps, a member of the expedition.
Mount Edixon is a mountain, 2,080 metres (6,820 ft) high, located 6 nautical miles (11 km) southeast of Bowers Peak in the Lanterman Range, Bowers Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The topographical feature was so named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1963–64, for Lieutenant Commander James R. Edixon, a pilot with U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6, who, with considerable willingness and skill, was responsible for the expedition's air support. The mountain lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.
Frecker Ridge is a ridge that rises abruptly along the west side of Kirkby Glacier in the Anare Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is 5 nautical miles (9 km) long and terminates in the north at Mount Gale. It was named by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) after Sergeant R. Frecker, Royal Australian Air Force, a member of the Antarctic Flight with the ANARE cruise that explored this coast, 1962. The feature lies on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.
The Géologie Archipelago, also known as the Pointe Géologie Archipelago, Geology Archipelago or Cape Geology Archipelago, is a small archipelago of rocky islands and rocks close to the north of Cape Géodésie and Astrolabe Glacier Tongue, extending from Helene Island on the west to the Dumoulin Islands on the east, in Adélie Land, Antarctica.
Mathieu Rock is an ice-free rock, midway between Cape Bickerton and Rock X, at the east side of the entrance to Victor Bay, Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47 and charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1952–53, under Marret. The rock was named for Mathieu Rivolier, born 29 April 1952, the son of the French doctor of the Antarctic expedition Jean Rivolier.
Manchot Island is a rocky island lying in the entrance to Port Martin, Antarctica. It is 0.4 kilometres (0.2 nmi) west of Bizeux Rock and 0.4 kilometres (0.2 nmi) north of Cape Margerie. The island was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1949–51. It was so named by the French expedition because a large Adélie penguin rookery was located on the island, and "manchot" is a French word for penguin.
Rescapé Islands is a small group of rocky islands lying 0.5 nautical miles (0.93 km) northwest of Cape Margerie along the Adélie Coast. Surveyed by the French Antarctic Expedition (1949–51) under Andre Liotard, and named in remembrance of an incident of the disembarkation at nearby Port Martin station, when a ship's boat was carried away by the wind.
Lacroix Nunatak is a ridge of terminal moraine, about 1 nautical mile (2 km) long and 75 metres (250 ft) high, standing immediately south of a small zone of low rocky ridges which protrude above the ice-covered point 2 nautical miles (4 km) southwest of Cape Margerie, Adélie Coast, Antarctica. It was discovered in 1931 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, and was named by Mawson after French mineralogist Alfred Lacroix. It was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and surveyed by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1949–51, which established an astronomical control station near its center.
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