They were mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from surveys and air photos, 1956–59, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Noah Ernest Dorsey, an American physicist, author of Properties of Ordinary Water-Substance (New York, 1940), a comprehensive study of ice.
Ernest Hemingway | Tommy Dorsey | Noah | Ernest Shackleton | Ernest Borgnine | Jimmy Dorsey | Ernest Tubb | Noah Webster | Ernest Rutherford | Ernest Renan | Noah's Ark | Jack Dorsey | Ernest Chausson | Ernest Bloch | Ernest Bevin | Ernest | Ken Dorsey | Ernest George | Ernest Gruening | Ernest Dowson | Ernest Bai Koroma | Ernest Thompson Seton | Ernest Hollings | William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar | John Ernest | Ernest Thayer | Ernest Jones | Ernest Giles | Ernest Gellner | Ernest Fenollosa |