Tuesday, 26th October 2004

Pain Mesa, Mount Blood

No wonder Antarctica took so long to become a tourist destination. It's hard to make features like these sound like relaxing holiday locations:

Baffle Rocks · Mount Blood · Coffin Top · Cemetery Bay · Desolation Island · Destruction Bay · Cape Disappointment · Dismal Buttress · Doubtful Bay · Exasperation Inlet · Exile Nunantak · Forbidden Rocks · Frustration Dome · Half-ration Névé · Hazard Rock · Horror Rock · Killer Ridge · Lonely Island · Longing Gap · Misery Peak · Mistake Peak · Mount Nemesis · Nonplus Crag · Noxious Bluff · Pain Mesa · Pandemonium Point · Perplex Ridge · Mount Quandary · Point Retreat · Sarcophagus Point · Savage Glacier · Shiver Point · Tanglefoot Peak · Tenterhooks Crevasses · Terror Point · Toilers Mountain · Trepidation Glacier · Tumbledown Cliffs · Turmoil Rock · Vertigo Bluff · Whiplash Glacier · and Widowmaker Pass.

And these don't lend themselves to family picnics or austere write-ups in travel magazines:

Big Brother Bluff · Black Pudding Peak · The Blob · Blow-me-down Bluff · The Boil · Bobo Ridge · Breakwind Ridge · Circumcision Port · East Groin · Heave-ho Slope · Hopalong Nunatak · Knobhead · Joke Cove · Misnomer Point · Mislaid Rock · The Mitten · Neck or Nothing Passage · The Niblets · Nipple Peak · The Nozzle · The Office Girls · Old Mans Head · The Pimple · Pipecleaner Glacier · The Pricker · Trousers Rock · Tickle Channel · Lake Porkchop · Puffball Islands · Queer Mountain · Sewing Machine Needles · Shagnasty Island · Sperm Bluff · The Waifs · Waitabit Cliffs · Well-met Cape · Whichaway Nunantaks · and Rock X.

These Antarctic place names give a unique insight into the minds and experiences of the early explorers, and were taken from the 31/10/99 issue of The Antarctic Sun.



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