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  • George V Coast

    George V Coast (68°30′S148°0′E) is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between Point Alden, at 148°2′E, and Cape Hudson, at 153°45′E.

  • Fisher Glacier

    Fisher Glacier is a prominent western tributary to the Lambert Glacier, about 100 miles (160 km) long, flowing east past the north sides of Mount Menzies and Mount Rubin and joining the main stream of the Lambert Glacier just east of Mount Stinear. …

  • Ferrar Glacier

    Ferrar Glacier is a glacier in Antarctica. It is about 35 miles (56 km) long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land west of the Royal Society Range to New Harbour in McMurdo Sound. The glacier makes a right (east) turn northeast of Knobhead, whe…

  • Esperanto Island

    Esperanto Island (Bulgarian: остров Есперанто, ‘Ostrov Esperanto’ 'os-trov es-pe-'ran-to) is the largest and northwesternmost island in the Zed group off the north coast of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarcti…

  • Enrique Hill

    Enrique Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Енрике, ‘Halm Enrique’ \'h&lm en-'ri-ke\) is the ice-free hill rising to 156 m in Dospey Heights on the Ray Promontory of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • English Strait

    English Strait is the 10.5-mile (17-km) long and 1.2-mile (2-km) wide strait lying between Greenwich Island and Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Trending southeast-northwest, and entered between Santa Cruz Point and Edwards P…

  • East Ongul Island

    East Ongul Island is an island, 1 mile (1.6 km) long, lying immediately east of the northern part of Ongul Island at the east side of the entrance of Lutzow-Holm Bay. This island was originally mapped as a part of Ongul Island by Norwegian cartograp…

  • Dundee Whaling Expedition

    The Dundee Whaling Expedition (1892–1893) began on 6 September 1892, when a Dundee whaling company (due to dwindling arctic whaling resources) decided to send four steam-powered whaling ships, the Balaena, Active, Diana and Polar Star, to the Weddel…

  • Doumer Island

    Doumer Island is an island 7.2 km (4.5 mi) long and 3.2 km (2.0 mi) wide, surmounted by a snow-covered pyramidal peak, 515 m (1,690 ft), lying between the south portions of Anvers Island and Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It…

  • Dion Islands

    The Dion Islands are a group of small islands and rocks lying in the northern part of Marguerite Bay, 10 km (6.2 mi) south-west of Cape Alexandra, Adelaide Island, off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

  • Debussy Heights

    Debussy Heights is a minor mountain range rising to 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) (at Ravel Peak) east of Mozart Ice Piedmont in the north part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The feature was first spotted and mapped, from air photos taken by the Ronne A…

  • D'Urville Island, Antarctica

    D'Urville Island is an island of Antarctica. It is the northernmost island of the Joinville Island group, 27 kilometres (17 mi) long, lying immediately north of Joinville Island, from which it is separated by Larsen Channel.

  • Coulman Island

    Coulman Island is an ice-covered island, composed of several connected shield volcanos in the Ross Sea off Antarctica. It is 33.3 kilometres (18 nmi) long and 14.8 kilometres (8 nmi) and is located 17 kilometres (9 nmi) SE of Cape Jones, Victoria La…

  • Cape Washington

    Cape Washington (74°39′S165°25′E) is a prominent cape, 275 m, marking the south extremity of the cove which separates Wood Bay and Terra Nova Bay, in Victoria Land. It separates the Borchgrevink Coast to the north from the Scott Coast to the south.

  • Cape Shirreff

    Cape Shirreff is a prominent cape at the north end of the rocky peninsula which separates Hero Bay and Barclay Bay on the north coast of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The cape was named by Edward Bransfield in 1820 …

  • Cape Hordern

    Cape Hordern is an ice-free cape, overlain by morainic drift, at the northwest end of the Bunger Hills in Antarctica. It was probably sighted from Watson Bluff (66°25′S98°57′E) by A.L. Kennedy and other members of the Western Base Party of the Aust…

  • Bulgarian toponyms in Antarctica

    Bulgarian toponyms in Antarctica are approved by the Antarctic Place-names Commission in compliance with its Toponymic Guidelines, and formally given by the President of the Republic according to the Bulgarian Constitution and the established intern…

  • Biscoe Islands

    Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud, Lavoisier (named Serrano by Chile and Mitre by Argentina), Watkins, Krogh, Pickwick and Rabot, lying parallel to the west coast of Graham Land and extending 150 km (81 nm…

  • Bear Island (Antarctica)

    Bear Island or Isla Teniente González is a rocky island lying 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) west of Stonington Island in Marguerite Bay, off the coast of Graham Land. Bear Island was presumably known to the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) (1934-1937) …

  • Barrientos Island

    Barrientos Island is an ice-free island in the Aitcho group on the west side of English Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending 1.71 by 0.54 km (1.063 by 0.336 mi), surface area 65 hectares (160 acres). The area was visited by ea…

  • Bach Ice Shelf

    The Bach Ice Shelf (72°S72°W) is an ice shelf which is irregular in shape and 45 miles (72 km) in extent, occupying an embayment in the south part of Alexander Island entered between Berlioz Point and Rossini Point. The ice shelf supports the south…

  • Astrolabe Island

    Astrolabe Island, located at (63°17′S58°40′W), is an island 5 km (3 mi) long, lying in the Bransfield Strait 23 km (14 mi) northwest of Cape Ducorps, Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica. It was discovered by the French expedition, 1837–40, under Captai…

  • Andersen Escarpment

    The Andersen Escarpment is a steep rock and snow escarpment located south of Reed Ridge on the west side of the Ford Massif in the Thiel Mountains of Antarctica. The name was proposed by cartographer Peter F. Bermel and geologist Dr. Arthur B. Ford,…

  • Amundsen Glacier

    Amundsen Glacier (85°35′S159°00′W) is a major Antarctic glacier, about 6 to 10 km (4 to 6 mi) wide and 128 km (80 mi) long, originating on the polar plateau where it drains the area to the south and west of Nilsen Plateau, and descending through th…

  • American Highland

    American Highland is the portion of Antarctica back of the Ingrid Christensen Coast and eastward of Lambert Glacier, consisting of an upland snow surface at 2,800 metres (9,200 ft) except for a group of nunataks (the Grove Mountains) near 75°E.

  • Aeronaut Glacier

    Aeronaut Glacier (73°16′S163°36′E) is a low gradient glacier extending 25-mile (40 km) draining northeast from Gair Mesa into the upper part of Aviator Glacier near Navigator Nunatak, situated on the Borchgrevink Coast, named for Anglo-Norwegian ex…

  • Twin Peaks (Antarctica)

    The Twin Peaks are two sharply defined peaks, 750 metres (2,500 ft) high, standing together 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Mount Taylor and 2 miles (3 km) west of the head of Hope Bay at the north-east end of the Antarctic Peninsula.

  • Britannia Range (Antarctica)

    The Britannia Range is an Antarctic mountain range bounded by the Hatherton and Darwin glaciers on the north and the Byrd Glacier on the south, westward of the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) under S…

  • Zephyr Glacier

    Zephyr Glacier 1 (69°28′S68°36′W) is a glacier, about 8 miles (13 km) long, flowing westward from the southwest side of Mount Edgell into George VI Sound to the south of Cape Jeremy. The feature was surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey …

  • Zed Islands

    Zed Islands is a small group of islands, the westernmost rising to 290 m (951 ft), lying off the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica comprising four islands: Esperanto Island, Phanagoria Island, Lesidre…