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As is true with some place names all over the world, names of Antarctic locations are attached to areas -- in commemoration. (On other continents, native peoples named geographic phenomenon based on the physical attributes of the location. Without a native population, Antarctica's place names are all in commemoration.)
Examples are
- Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station (USA), named after the two explorers who first set foot at the south Pole.
- Mt Erebus and Mt Terror, on Ross Island -- named after the explorer James Clark Ross who first viewed it -- are named after ships that carried explorers into the territory.
- Vostok Research Station (Russia) named after the ship that carried the explorer Fabian von Bellingshausen on the First Russian Antarctic Expedition.
- The Weddell Sea is named after ". . . the Scottish sailor James Weddell, who entered the sea in 1823 and originally named it after King George IV; it was renamed in Weddell's honour in 1900." This is according to its Wikipedia entry.
Generally, you can discover the origin of Antarctic place names with a simple internet search. There are, too, reference books published by nations with an interest in Antarctica, that give the origin and attribution of place names assigned by that nation to a particular location.
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