Cornwell Corner () is an angular rock bluff, about high, at the west end of

Horney Bluff Horney Bluff () is a conspicuous ice-free bluff about long, extending eastward along the north side of Byrd Glacier from Merrick Glacier toward Cape Kerr, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain Harry R ...

and the terminus of Merrick Glacier, where the glacial flow is forced east at an acute angle upon entering

Byrd Glacier The Byrd Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica, about long and wide, draining an extensive area of the polar plateau and flowing eastward between the Britannia Range and Churchill Mountains to discharge into the Ross Ice Shelf at Barne Inl ...

. It was named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

, in association with Byrd Glacier, after Captain

Delbert S. Cornwell Delbert is a given name. It is a short form of Adelbert, which is a combination of adal, meaning noble, and Bert meaning bright. Notable people with the name include: *John Delbert Van Allen, retail dry goods merchant and department store owner who ...

, U.S. Navy, who was captain of the aircraft carrier USS ''Philippine Sea'' in

U.S. Navy Operation Highjump Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...

, 1946–47, led by

Admiral Byrd Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, p ...

. The ''Philippine Sea'' carried six twin-engine Douglas R4D aircraft, which took off from the carrier deck and flew about to Little America base,

Ross Ice Shelf The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...

, from where exploratory and photographic flights were made.

References

* Geography of Antarctica Hillary Coast {{RossDependency-geo-stub