COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

rising to 470m NW of Kirwan Inlet, SE Alexander Island. The SE coast of the island was seen from a distance by a BGLE sledge party, 19 October 1936, and was reported to trend SW from c. 72°00'S (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232); again seen from the ground by USAS, 1940-41, when the nunatak was photographed (Ronne, 1945, p.17-19 and Fig. 8). USAS reported an ice-covered cape in c. 72°25'S 68°00'W (possibly Martin Ice Rise, q.v.), to which the name Cape Stephenson was applied after A. Stephenson (Mount Stephenson, q.v.) (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942). Cabo Mac Donald [sic], in error presumably after J.E. MacDonald (Cape MacDonald, q.v.) (Argentina. IGM map, 1946). Kapp Stephenson (Hansen, chart [no number], 1947). Cabo Stephenson (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1949). Following survey by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in December 1949, when no well-defined cape was found to exist in the reported position, the name of Stephenson was transferred to the nunatak. Stephenson Nunatak ([in 72°11'S 69°05'W] APC, 1955, p.20; DCS 601 sheet W 72 68, 1956; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of January 1973] BAS 250P sheet SS 19-21/1, 1-DOS 1974; APC, 1977, p.31). Nunatak Stivenson (Soviet Union. MMF chart 1961).

Prominent, pyramid-shaped rock nunatak, 640 m, which rises 300 m above the surrounding ice at the NW side of Kirwan Inlet in the SE part of Alexander Island. Discovered and roughly surveyed in 1940-41 by Ronne and Eklund of the USAS. Resurveyed in 1949 by the FIDS and named by the UK-APC for Alfred Stephenson, surveyor with the BGLE, who led a sledge party S into George VI Sound to about 72S in 1936.