COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

Probablemente, el nombre se le dio por el capitán Alexander Fairweather, del ballenero Balaena, de Dundee, Escocia, que en 1892-1893 operaba en la costa NE de Tierra de O'Higgins, formando parte de una expedición ballenera junto con otros tres buques: Active, Diana y Polar Star. En algunas cartas chilenas figuró como cabo Alejandro. Morro negro de piedra, ubicado en la medianía de la costa S de la isla Joinville, constituyendo el extremo de una península montañosa que se eleva a 597 metros.

rising to 600m above Firth of Tay, S coast of Joinville Island, was sighted by DWE on 8 January 1893, when the promontory of which it forms the N end was named Cape Alexander (Robertson, chart, 1893a; BA chart 1238, x.1893). Kap Alexander (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 2, first end map). Cabo Alexander (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.23). Cabo Alexandre (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map). Cap Alexander (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 1). Kapp Alexander (HA chart, 1928). Cabo Alejandro (Chile. DNH chart L, 1947). From 1948 the name Cape Alexander was omitted from BA publications until a reliable survey could be made (BA, 1948). The promontory was re-identified and surveyed by FIDS from Hope Bay in 1953-54, and the mountain summit was named Mount Alexander (APC, 1958, p.4; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/14, 1-DOS, 1973). Cabo Teniente Barrios, referring to SE end of promontory, after Tte Emilio Barrios, one of a naval air detachment of FATA killed on active service (Argentina. MM chart 124, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.681).

Mountain with several summits, the highest 595 m, forming the rocky peninsula separating Gibson and Haddon Bays, on the S side of Joinville Island. The cliff marking the extremity of the peninsula was discovered and named Cape Alexander on Jan. 8, 1893 by Thomas Robertson, master of the ship Active, one of the Dundee whalers. The name was amended to Mount Alexander by the UK-APC in 1956 following a survey by the FIDS in 1953-54, the mountain summits of the peninsula being considered more suitable to name.

A rock bluff in the southern part of the Mawson Escarpment, between Turk Glacier and Sheraton Glacier. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Named after Henry R. Phillpot, Leader of the International Antarctic Analysis Centre, Melbourne, 1959-65, Leader of the International Antarctic Meteorological Research Centre, 1965-69.