COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

rising to 500m on S side of Mobiloil Inlet, Bowman Coast, was photographed from the air by Wilkins, 20 December 1928, by Ellsworth, 23 November 1935 (Joerg, 1937, Figs 1 and 2, p.434), and by RARE, 22 December 1947; shown on a map compiled in 1937 from Ellsworth's photographs (Joerg, 1937, map A facing p.444); called by CAE Punta Patricio Lynch after Patricio Lynch (1824-86), Chilean naval officer and patriot (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947). The feature was named Kay Nunatak after John D. Kay, AGS cartographer, who assisted W.A. Briesemeister (Briesemeister Peak, q.v.) to construct the 1937 map of the area (USHO chart 6639, 1955; APC, 1962, p.18; DOS 610 sheet W 68 64, 1963); surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in December 1958. Punta Patricio Linch [sic], as rejected name (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.221).

Dark rocky nunatak rising to 500 m, situated at the S side of Mobiloil Inlet and forming the northernmost outlier of Hitchcock Heights, on the E coast of Antarctic Peninsula. The nunatak was photographed from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins on Dec. 20, 1928, and by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935. Named in 1952 by the US-ACAN for John D. Kay of the American Geographical Society, who by utilizing these photographs assisted in constructing the first reconnaissance map of this area.