 It was remapped from the RARE photos by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after German composer Felix Mendelssohn.• Defense Mapping Agency 1992, "Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica", P 379
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