Southard Promontory

Southard Promontory is a notable promontory, long and wide, which juts into northwest

Mill Inlet Mill Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet which recedes in a northwesterly direction and is some wide at its entrance between Cape Robinson and Monnier Point, along the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted by the Falkland Islands De ...

between

Breitfuss Glacier Breitfuss Glacier () is a glacier long, which flows southeast from Avery Plateau into Mill Inlet to the west of Cape Chavanne, on the east coast of Graham Land. It was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and photographed ...

and Alberts Glacier, on the

Foyn Coast The Foyn Coast () is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Alexander and Cape Northrop. It was discovered in 1893 by a Norwegian expedition under Captain Carl Anton Larsen, who named it for Svend Foyn, a Norwegian ...

, Graham Land. The promontory is bordered by steep rock cliffs which rise to a relatively flat and snow covered upper surface. It was photographed from the air by

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Background Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...

(RARE) and surveyed from the ground by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. In association with the names of Antarctic cartographers grouped in this area, named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Rupert B. Southard, Jr., Chief, National Mapping Division, United States Geological Survey (USGS), 1979–86; Chief, Office of International Activities (with responsibility for USGS field parties working in Antarctica), 1961–64; U.S. Representative to the SCAR Working Group on Geodesy and Cartography, 1964–79; Chairman, Domestic Names Committee of the USBGN, 1983-87 (Chairman, USBGN, 1988–90). Headlands of Graham Land Foyn Coast {{FoynCoast-geo-stub