In the past year, the Division has continued to per-form research and other staff functions for the Ad-visory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN),which makes recommendations on antarctic namesand policy to the Board on Geographic Names (BGN)and the Secretary of the Interior. Meeting periodicallyduring the year, ACAN—whose members are K. J.Bertrand (chairman), A. P. Crary, H. M. Dater,H. R. Friis, and M. F. Burrill (ex officio)—recom-mended new names at South Georgia, in the SouthSandwich Islands, the South Shetland Islands, theAntarctic Peninsula, Victoria Land, the Transantarc-tic Mountains, Marie Byrd Land, and other scatteredpoints of the continent. Approximately 1,000 newnames and 25 amendments have been authorizedsince publication in 1969 of the last cumulative listfor Antarctica, BGN Gazetteer No. 14-3. Progress hasbeen made in drafting and typing a textual summaryfor each approved name, including notes on the geo-graphical-historical aspects of the feature. Approxi-mately 9,500 texts are completed, and 1,500 remainto be done.

Correspondence between ACAN and committees inother countries is used to facilitate exchange of newname proposals and to verify spelling and correctapplication of names. Several conflicting names wereresolved by these means and instances of inadvertentduplication avoided. Moreover, M. F. Burrill, execu-tive secretary of BGN, met with the secretary of theUnited Kingdom Antarctic Place-names Committeein London on questions of mutual interest.

The Geographic Names Division continued to giveclose cooperation in supplying names for use on mapsin preparation in the U.S. Geological Survey and theAmerican Geographical Society. Names consultationand editing services were provided for volumes of theAntarctic Research Series. Hundreds of name in-quiries received by phone and letter were answeredwith dispatch. New names proposed by writers ofreports were researched and the findings presented toACAN for consideration.

Inquiries on antarctic names may be made by mailor telephone to:

Defense Mapping AgencyTopographic CenterGeographic Names Division 50400Washington, D.C. 20315Telephone (202) 227-2355

Proposals for new names may be mailed to:Executive SecretaryBoard on Geographic NamesDepartment of the InteriorWashington, D.C. 20240

A current mapping trend to provide larger scalemaps for antarctic areas of intensive scientific interestis creating a need to supply names in greater abun-

dance in such places as Taylor and Wright Valleys inVictoria Land. There is increasing interest in ex-ploration and names for undersea features in theoceans surrounding Antarctica. Remote ice sensingfrom aircraft is speeding the collection of data onthe ice-bedrock interface of Antarctica and will re-quire that consideration be given to names for sub-glacial entities.

Antarctic information servicesat the Smithsonian

Oceanographic Sorting CenterB. J . LANDRUM

Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting CenterSmithsonian Institution

The documentation and dissemination of informa-tion and data for the U. S. Antarctic Research Pro-gram long have been vital concerns of the Smith-sonian Oceanographic Sorting Center. Not only doesthe Sorting Center attempt to insure that systematistsreceive accurate and complete data with specimensshipped from here, but it acts, under the AntarcticRecords Program, as a centralized national source ofinformation on antarctic natural history collectionsat other locations. Computerized data bases havebeen established (Landrum and Sandved, 1969), andnew information is routinely compiled (Landrum,1971).

Present concerns are the integration and improve-ment of data recording and retrieval procedures toincrease efficiency, improve the utilization of re-sources, and especially to expand the services avail-able to antarctic and arctic investigators. One aspectof these concerns led to staff participation on EltaninCruises 46 (El-Sayed, 1971) and Cruise 51 (seepages 173-181). These cruises stressed integratedbiological studies, including the multifarious needsfor appropriate data. Our participation was furthercompelled by a concern to utilize Eltanin's computerto facilitate data retrieval and dissemination, bothduring and after the cruises. Further, we aided inthe collection and preservation of reference collec-tions, including whole samples and the residuals ofsamples obtained by other programs largely forvarious destructive analyses.

With the enthusiastic efforts of Mr. Stevan Apter(Alpine Geophysical Associates, Inc.) who pro-grammed the computer and keypunched an enor-mous amount of data, we were successful on Cruise51 in establishing workable procedures for documen -tation of all over-the-side scientific activities. Thefigure shows a set of data for a typical ship's station.The system as designed provides for automatic corn-

212 ANTARCTIC JOURNAL

**e** ** * ** 49 ** IKV91U.S.N.S. ELTAN1N DAILY DATA SHEETPAGE NO. 136*** * k ** * * ** *** 9*&** ** ,p * s* * * ** *****.**** ** CRUISE NUMBER 51DATE 15 FEBRUARY 1972DAY NO. 30 L4II2_H0U

HiPS -TAT IN'5T-T3ON STATION77T51 347.ff 7 AT 2300 Z on 14/ 2/1972UNDERWAY 77 10.05 S 159 51.02W AT 1520 Z on 15/ 2/1972

TIME(GMT)LATITUDELONGITUDEEVENT(CF.COLLECTOR)USARP NO.COLLECTORGEAR CODEDEPTH(M.)BEG 77ThT7S-1578- ITh6w-------- 86TAM W74MINEND 041277 8.75 5158 41.19W MAX320

SAMPLING TIME (MINUTES) 10BEG 042777 8.78 S158 41.47 WNANSEN CAST 897TAM W-702 MIN0HIT 045277 8.83 S158 41.93 WEND 050377 8.85 5158 42.63 W MAX300

BEG 0504HIT 0521END 0539

BEG 054)END 0555

BEG 0558HIT 0611END 0633

77 8.86 5158 42.74 W

77 8.89 5158 44.73 W

77 8.92 S158 46.84 W

77 8.92 5158 47.07 W

77 8.95 S158 48.71 W

77 8.96 S158 49.06 W

77 8.98 S158 50.59 W

77 9.02 S158 53.16 W

SAMPLING TIME (MINUTES) 360,20,40,60,75,I00,150,200,300 METERS.

NISKIN CAST 898

SAMPLING TIME (MINUTES) 360.20,40,60,75, 100,150,200,300 METERS.

PHYTOPLANKTON NET. 899

SAMPLING fIME (MINUTES) 14COMBINED W)THIJSJARP 910 (TTIN0).

BUTTERFLY BIOSAMPLER 900

TAM W-700 MIN0

MAX300

TAM P-116MIN0

MAX200

LJ'IICHW-705MINoMAX 300

SAMPLING TIME (MINUTES) 3510 WATER SAMPLES FOR MARINE FUNGI I WATER SAMPLEFOR OREGON STATE UNIV.

158 59.60 WMENZIES TR 5769SOSC159 0.19W

SAMPLING TIME (MINUTES) 5

159 7.21 WWP2 FREE FALL 901DPAULU159 7.56 W

SAMPLING TIME (MINUTES) 3

159 8.73 WWP2 FREE FALL 902DPAULU59 9.09 W

SAMPLING TIME (MINUTES) 3

159 10.37 WI METER MWT 903TAM159 17.40 W

BEG 072877 9.12 SEND 073377 9.13 S

BEG 083377 9.25 SEND 083677 9.25 S

BEG 084677 9.27 SEND 084977 9.28 5

BEG 090077 9.30 SEND 00077 9.4) 5

B-3O4 MIN344

MAX357

P-I40MIN0

MAX200

P- 140MIN0

MAX200

M- 80 MIN0

MAXISO

Simulated computer printout of data from a typical ship's station.

putation and retrieval of positional data. This fea-ture, which is based on a computerized navigationalsystem (Hayes and Griffiths, 1969), should consider-ably increase the precision and accuracy of positioninformation on Eltanin collections.

Forthcoming refinements of the shipboard docu-mentation system will lead to integration with thesystems for antarctic specimen and ocean bottomphotographic inventories at the Sorting Center, con-serving both financial and manpower resources. Ad-ditional benefits should accrue immediately to thescientific community in the form of more rapidlyretrievable and better quality data.

New services we can now supply include automaticgeographic plots using a variety of map projections.These are suitable for many publications. Addition-ally, we envisage various program extensions to pro-vide for routine data reductions and summarizationsto aid taxonomists or others studying antarctic speci-mens or ecological factors. Particular emphasis toois placed on increasing the potential for providingreadily synthesized information to users concernedwith the biological and geological characteristics ofthe ocean bottom as inferred from the extensivephotographic collection stored at the SmithsonianOceanographic Sorting Center.

This work is supported by National Science Founda-tion contract C-494.

References

El-Sayed, S. Z. 1971. The photic zone: eleven studies duringEltanin Cruise 46. Antarctic Journal of the U.S., VI(3):63-66.

Hayes, D. E., and K. H. Griffiths, Jr. 1969. Eltanin ship-board data processing. Antarctic Journal of the U.S.,IV(6): 275-278.

Landrum, B. J. 1971. Documentation of U.S. antarctic col-lections. Antarctic Journal of the U.S., VI(6) : 251-252.

Landrum, B. J . , and K. G. Sandved, 1969. An operationaldata processing system for natural history specimens. An-tarctic Journal of the U.S., IV(6): 278-284.

Bibliographic coverageof polar literature

GEZA T. THURONYIScience and Technology Division

Library of Congress

The Cold Regions Bibliography Project in theLibrary of Congress is continuing its review of theinternational antarctic literature. In the past year

September-October 1972 213