Rymill Bay

The name, proposed by members of the BGLE is for John Riddoch Rymill, Australian leader of the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-37.

Named by UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Kenneth J. Bertrand (1910-78), Professor of Geography, the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

A glacier, 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) wide and 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) long, which flows west and then northwest from the south side of Mount Lupa to the southeast corner of Rymill Bay where it joins the Bertrand Ice Piedmont.

Resurveyed in 1948-49 by the FIDS and named for James H. Martin, member of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Douglas Mawson, 1929-31, and first mate of the Penola during the BGLE, 1934-37.

A long, low, rocky islet lying 0.25 nautical miles (0.46 km; 0.29 mi) off the west end of Red Rock Ridge.

A small group of islands lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) from the ice cliffs at the southwest side of Red Rock Ridge.

A group of three rocks lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) east of the Refuge Islands in the north part of Rymill Bay.

A small low island lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) northwest of Tiber Rocks in the north part of Rymill Bay.

A group of rocks lying near the head of Rymill Bay, close west of the mouth of Romulus Glacier and 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) northwest of the highest summit of Black Thumb.

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Fallières Coast on Antarctic Peninsula.
Northern Palmer Land. Rymill Bay in northwest of map