COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

rising to c. 1550m, NW of Cape Zumberge, Orville Coast, were surveyed on USGS Antarctic Peninsula Traverse, 1961-62, and photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67; named after John Charles Behrendt (b.1932), USGS seismologist, "Ellsworth Station", 1957; Leader of the 1961-62 traverse, and of investigations in Marie Byrd Land, 1963-64, and in Pensacola Mountains, 1965-66 (USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975 p.3; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981).

A group of mountains, 20 mi long, aligned in the form of a horseshoe with the opening to the SW, standing 7 mi SW of Merrick Mountains in Ellsworth Land. Discovered and photographed from the air by the RARE, 1947-48, under Finn Ronne. Named by US-ACAN for John C. Behrendt, traverse seismologist at Ellsworth Station in 1957. Behrendt led the Antarctic Peninsula Traverse party to these mountains, summer 1961-62, and carried out investigations in Marie Byrd Land and the Pensacola Mountains in 1963-64 and 1965-66.

A small, irregular island on the eastern side of Amundsen Bay, in Enderby Land. Visited by ANARE Amundsen Bay party led by Peter W. Crohn in 1956 and so named because the island was occupied as a magnetic and astronomical observation station.