COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

A fjord, near Law Base in the Larsemann Hills, which separates Lied Promontory and Fletcher Promontory. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37.

name for the whole area S of the Antarctic Convergence, comprising Antarctica (q.v.), together with its off-lying and oceanic islands, ice shelves, sea ice and ocean, including South Orkney Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. In earlier usage the term and its equivalents variously referred to the area S of the Antarctic Circle, the lat. 60°S, the average ice limit, the mean isotherm of 10°C in the warmest month of the year, etc., all of which definitions have been found untenable. S d-Polar Gebiet, S d-Polar-Gebietes, S d-PolarRegionen (Neumayer, 1872a, p.120, 123). Antarktis (Reiter, 1888, Tafel 1 facing p.30). The Antarctic (Balch, 1902, p.12; BA, 1948, p.1; APC, 1982, p. 3). Terres Antarctiques (Ar towski, 1908, p.27). South Polar Regions (Mawson, 1911). S dpolarwelt (Mecking, 1914). Antarctic Regions (Hayes, 1928, p.5; USHO chart 5411, 1940; BA, 1948, p.5). Sydpolomrdet (Risting, 1929, p.109). Régions Polaires Australes (Zimmermann, 1930). L'Antarctique (France. SHM, 1937, p.40). Región Antártica (Rodriguez, 1941, map p.10). La Antártida (Pinochet de la Barra, 1944). Sudpolsomrdene (Aagaard, 1944, p.14). Antártida (Alazraqui, 1947). La Antártica (Pinochet de la Barra, 1948). Antarktika (Soviet Union. BSE, 1950a, p.484). Antártico [adjectival form wrongly used as a substantive or place-name] (Martinez Moreno, 1951, p.8). Zona Antártica (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.46). Antarktyka (Machowski, 1953). El Antártico (Beltramino, 1958, p.447). Antarctis (Knapp, 1958, p.550). South Polar Region (Soviet Union. AA, 1967, p.313).