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Hod
Place Names
AMERICA:
AL - Hodge, Hodges, Hodgesville, Hodgewood;
CA - Hodg, Hodge; FL - Hodgson; IL - Hodgeville,
Hodgkins, IA - Hodge; KS - Hodges; KY - Hode,
Hodgenville; LA - Hodge, ME - East Hodgdon, Hodgdon,
Hodgdon Corners, Houghton; MA - Hodges Village,
MO - Hodge, MT - Hodges, Hodges Road; NC - Hodman,
OK - Hodgen, SC - Hodges, Hodges Corner; TN - Hodges,
Hodgetown, Hodson; TX - Hodges, Hodgson;
VA - Hodges, Hodges Ferry, Hodges Manor; WV - Hodam,
Hodges, Hodgesville.
ANTARCTICA:
Cape Hodgson 78°07'S, 166°05'E is the northernmost
promontory of Black Island near McMurdo Sound and on the Ross Ice Shelf
or the Ross Archipelago. Named (1958-59) for Thomas V. Hodgson, biologist
(1901-04), who with Koettlitz, Ferrar and Bernacchi was first to visit
the island. Hodgson Nunatak 74°17'S, 100°04'W lies
5 mi S of Teeters Nunatak and 20 mi NW of Mount Moses in the Hudson
Mountains. A nunatak is an isolated mountain peak or hill
rising above the surrounding glacial ice. Named for Ronald A. Hodgson,
USN, builder with the Byrd Station party, 1966. Hodge Escarpment
83°03'S, 50°11'W lies to the NE of Henderson Bluff on the
NW side of Lexington Table. Named for Steven M. Hodge, USGS geophysicist,
who worked in the Dufek Massif and Forrestal Range, 1978-79. Hodgeman
Islands 67°01'S, 144°14'E A group of small islands lying
close to the coast, 4 mi WSW of Cape De la Motte, in the E part of the
entrance to Watt Bay. Named for Alfred J. Hodgeman, cartographer and
assistant meteorologist. Mount Hodges 54°16'S, 36°32'W
Standing 605 m and 1 mi W of Mount Duse, close NW of the head of King
Edward Cove, Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia. Probably named for
Capt. M.H.Hodges, RN, who visited and mapped portions of Cumberland
Bay in 1906. Hodges Glacier 54°16'S, 36°32'W Small
glacier 1 mi W of Grytviken, South Georgia, flowing from S side of Petrel
Peak to the foot of Mount Hodges. Hodges Point 67°21'S,
65°03'W A Rocky point terminating in an impressive black cliff,
lying 6 mi ENE of Cape Northrop on the E coast of Graham Land. Twin
summits on the point rise to 940 m and 960 m. Named for Ben Hodges,
General Assistant with the BAS Larsen Ice Shelf party, 1963-4. Hodson
Mount 56°42'S, 27°13'W Volcanic mountain, 915 m, forming
the summit of Visokoi Island in the South Sandwich Islands. Discovered
in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen. Named for Arnold
Hodson, then Gov. of the Falkland Islands. Hodson Point 54°08'S,
36°47'W Point lying 1 mi S of Small Bay, on the E side of Fortuna
Bay, South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1931 British
Admiralty chart.
AUSTRALIA:
Hodgson River flows across Hodgson Downs, an upland region
in the Northern Territory, to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
CANADA:
Hodgson, Manitoba, is 90 mi N of Winnipeg, in the Manitou district
between Lakes Manitoba and Winnipeg. Hodgeville is 30 mi SE of
Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Hodges Hill and Hodge's Cove
are on Newfoundland.
ENGLAND:
In Howden, Yorkshire, the local Leisure Centre was built on Hodgson
Field. In the Lake District of Cumbria, two miles W of Keswick,
there is a natural hill named Hodgson How. How is from
the Old Norse haugr or mound. Hodgson How may have been
a place of assembly or Viking thing. Hodgson Hill, a mysterious
earthworks on the northeast shoreline of Lake Ullswater, Lake District,
may be the remains of a Viking fortified settlement.
SCOTLAND:
Hodgeton Farm between Arbroath and Montrose.
Extracted
from Royal Mail's 96-96 North East (ENG) Edition Postal Address Book:
Hodgson's
Road, Blyth NBL; Hodgson Avenue, Hodgson Fold. Bradford
YWR; Hodgson Lane, Birkenshaw & Drighlington (Bradford) YWR;
Hodgson Terrace, Dewsbury YWR; Hodgson Lane, Hodgson
Street, Kingston upon Hull HUM; Hodgson Fold, Assingham YWR;
Hodgson Avenue, Hodgson Crescent, Leeds YWR; Hodgson
Place, Hodgson Street, Morley, Leeds YWR; Hodgson's Way,
Sutton on Sea LIN; Hodgkinson Avenue, Penistone YSR; Hodgson
Street, Sheffield YSR; Hodgson Street, Wakefield YWR; Hodgson
Terrace, Washington DUR; Hodgson House, Wherby YWR; Hodgson
Lane, Upper Poppleton in York YNR.
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