Antarctic place-names

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Author: Hattersley-Smith, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1989
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Antarctic; South Shetland Islands; Endeavour; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102089000441; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102089000441

Throughout history ‘explorers’ from advanced countries have named place they have ‘discovered’ in lands occupied by native people from time immemorial, with the result that many local place-names have been disregarded and their history forgotten. Antarctica, however, is the one great land region on...