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44: 194: 202: 51: 1394: 1344: 848:. The seaward end of a ridge from the Mountaineer Range, situated at the confluence of the Icebreaker and Fitzgerald Glaciers. Mapped by the USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos 1960-64. Named by the US-ACAN for Agustive A. Hermes, Jr., United States Navy, aviation structural mechanic at Williams Field, McMurdo Sound, on United States Navy OpDFrz, 1967 and 1968. 772:. A prominent, rocky, digit-like point that juts eastward into Lady Newnes Bay toward the floating glacier tongue of the Parker Glacier. Mapped by the USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Commander H.R. Andrus, logistics officer on the staff of the Commander, United States Naval Support Force, Antarctica, 1962-66. 477:. A tributary glacier which drains the northwest slopes of Mount Monteagle and flows north into the upper part of Icebreaker Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Russell H. Finley, aviation boatswain's mate with Squadron VX-6 during United States Navy OpDFrz, 1966, 1967 and 1968. 886:. A cape forming the seaward end of the rocky west wall of Wylde Glacier where the glacier enters Lady Newnes Bay, Ross Sea. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Geoffrey A. King, ionospheric and geomagnetic scientist at Hallett Station, 1958. 213:
extends into the Ross Sea. Further east, past Andrus Point, the Parker Glacier enters the bay from the north. East of this, past Greene Point, the Oakley Glacier enters from the north, beside the Icebreaker Glacier and the Fitzgerald Glacier, which form a common tongue. The Finley Glacier and Dunn
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to merge with the floating tongue from the Icebreaker Glacier at Lady Newnes Bay. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant Commander Donald C. Oakley, United States Navy, Protestant chaplain with the winter party at McMurdo Station,
810:. An ice-covered point 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) northeast of Andrus Point in Lady Newnes Bay. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN after Stanley W. Greene, biologist at McMurdo Station, 1964-65. 684:. A short, fairly smooth glacier in the east extremity of Mountaineer Range, draining southeast to the coast between Gauntlet Ridge and Index Point. So named in 1966 by NZ-APC, presumably as descriptive of the emerging or youthful development of the feature. 1038:. A flat-topped, mainly ice-covered ridge, or peninsula, which separates the mouths of Nascent and Ridgeway Glaciers where they discharge into Lady Newnes Bay. The name suggests the appearance of the feature in plan and was applied by NZ-APC in 1966. 924:. A rounded, ice-filled cove in Lady Newnes Bay, situated between the mouths of Wylde and Suter Glaciers. The shape of the cove and the points that encompass it are nearly symmetrical suggesting calipers; hence the name applied by NZ-APC in 1966. 221:
to the north, then east of Caliper Cove the Suter Glacier enters from the north. East of Spatulate Ridge and Apostrophe Island the Ridgeway Glacier enters from the north, then east of Gauntlet Ridge the Nascent Glacier enters from the north. The
646:. A short glacier in the east part of Mountaineer Range, draining southeast between Spatulate Ridge and Gauntlet Ridge into Lady Newnes Bay. Named by NZ-APC in 1966 for Norman Ridgeway, senior scientist at Hallett Station, 1963-64. 608:. A short glacier in the Mountaineer Range, draining southeast into Lady Newnes Bay just south of Spatulate Ridge. Named by NZ-APC in 1966 for Douglas Suter, senior New Zealand scientist at Hallett Station, 1962-63. 962:. An ice-covered ridge in the Mountaineer Range which extends southeast between Suter Glacier and Ridgeway Glacier to the coast. The name is descriptive of the shape and was applied in 1966 by the NZ-APC. 393:(NZGSAE), 1958-59, as a tribute to the work of the complements of United States Navy, and United States Coast Guard icebreakers in Antarctic exploration, in supporting scientists and in aiding other ships. 519:
and flows north to Icebreaker Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Robert Dunn, United States Navy, commissaryman, McMurdo Station, 1967.
1398: 1348: 1000:. Small ice-covered island lying close off Spatulate Ridge in Lady Newnes Bay. The name is descriptive of the appearance of the island in plan and was given by NZ-APC in 1966. 734:
at the terminus of Aviator Glacier. Sighted in February 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross and named by him for Lieutenant (later Commander) John Sibbald of the Erebus.
390: 435:. At the mouth it coalesces with the Icebreaker Glacier before debouching on Lady Newnes Bay. Explored by NZGSAE, 1958-59, and named by 436: 43: 1352: 86: 385:. A large valley glacier 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) northeast of Mount Monteagle that flows southeast from the 296:, and flows south to Lady Newnes Bay where it terminates in a floating glacier tongue adjacent to Andrus Point. Mapped by the 301: 17: 304:(US-ACAN) for Anthony G.H. Parker, biologist at Hallett Station in 1963-64, and McMurdo Station, 1964-65 and 1966-67. 1010: 972: 934: 896: 858: 820: 782: 744: 702: 656: 618: 580: 530: 487: 449: 403: 357: 314: 264: 125: 1402: 559: 432: 297: 431:. A prominent valley glacier draining to Lady Newnes Bay from the ice cascades on the south and west slopes of 1417: 566:
and Cape King into Lady Newnes Bay. Named in 1966 by the NZ-APC for Leonard Wylde, scientific officer at
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to Lady Newnes Bay. Below Hermes Point, its flow coalesces with that of Fitzgerald Glacier. Named by the
1422: 730:. A cliffed cape at the southwest margin of Lady Newnes Bay. It marks the southwest extremity of the 174: 292:. A valley glacier in the Mountaineer Range which drains the area just east and northeast of 300:(USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by the United States 1375: 235: 178: 1359: 8: 731: 386: 218: 1326: 692:
Other features along the shore of the Lady Newnes Bay include, from west to east,
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Lady Newnes Bay was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition 1898–1900 (or
153:) is a bay about 60 nautical miles (110 km; 69 mi) long in the western 243: 242:. Both these glaciers extend tongues into the bay to the west and southwest of 162: 1411: 1025: 1012: 987: 974: 949: 936: 911: 898: 873: 860: 835: 822: 797: 784: 759: 746: 717: 704: 671: 658: 633: 620: 595: 582: 563: 545: 532: 502: 489: 464: 451: 418: 405: 372: 359: 329: 316: 279: 266: 182: 158: 140: 127: 101: 88: 72: 209:
The most westerly point of the bay is Cape Sibbald, where the tongue of the
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Glacier are tributaries of the Icebreaker Glacier from the southwest.
154: 515:. A steep tributary glacier which drains the northwest slopes of 254:
From west to east, glaciers entering the Lady Newnes Bay include,
439:(NZ-APC) for E.B. Fitzgerald, deputy leader of the expedition. 342:. A glacier in the Mountaineer Range that descends east from 181:. He named it for Lady Priscilla Newnes, whose husband, Sir 1062: 1074: 1052: 1050: 1302: 1278: 1266: 1254: 1242: 1230: 1206: 1194: 1182: 1170: 1158: 1334:(2 ed.), United States Board on Geographic Names 1290: 1218: 1146: 1134: 1122: 1110: 1098: 1086: 1047: 217:
East of Cape King the Wylde Glacier enters from the
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A glacier situated east of 205:East of bay and Coulman Island 13: 1: 1041: 851: 188: 7: 249: 185:, financed the expedition. 27:Bay in the western Ross Sea 10: 1439: 1317: 562:, draining south between 175:Southern Cross Expedition 78: 68: 37: 32: 226:enters from the east of 1399:public domain material 1349:public domain material 206: 198: 169:Exploration and naming 1418:Bays of Victoria Land 204: 196: 161:from Cape Sibbald to 1069:Mount Murchison USGS 236:Borchgrevink Glacier 179:Carsten Borchgrevink 1081:Coulman Island USGS 1022: /  984: /  946: /  908: /  870: /  832: /  794: /  756: /  714: /  668: /  630: /  592: /  542: /  499: /  461: /  415: /  369: /  326: /  276: /  137: /  98: /  1423:Borchgrevink Coast 1026:73.417°S 167.583°E 988:73.517°S 167.433°E 950:73.467°S 167.217°E 912:73.567°S 166.933°E 874:73.583°S 166.617°E 836:73.583°S 166.217°E 798:73.817°S 166.150°E 760:73.883°S 165.800°E 718:73.900°S 165.383°E 672:73.367°S 167.617°E 634:73.400°S 167.233°E 596:73.517°S 167.167°E 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Icebreaker Glacier
Lady Newnes Bay is located in Antarctica
Victoria Land
73°40′S 167°30′E / 73.667°S 167.500°E / -73.667; 167.500
73°40′S 167°30′E / 73.667°S 167.500°E / -73.667; 167.500
Ross Sea
Victoria Land
Coulman Island
Southern Cross Expedition
Carsten Borchgrevink
George Newnes


Aviator Glacier
Mountaineer Range
Mariner Glacier
Index Point
Emerging Island
Borchgrevink Glacier
Cape Jones
Coulman Island
73°47′S 165°33′E / 73.783°S 165.550°E / -73.783; 165.550
Mount Monteagle
United States Geological Survey
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
73°42′S 166°08′E / 73.700°S 166.133°E / -73.700; 166.133
Mount Casey
73°37′S 166°10′E / 73.617°S 166.167°E / -73.617; 166.167
Mountaineer Range
New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

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