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  • Cain Nunatak

    Cain Nunatak (63°34′S57°42′W) is the westernmost of two isolated nunataks on the south side of Broad Valley, situated 3.37 km east-northeast of Kumata Hill on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica.

  • Buttress Nunataks

    The Buttress Nunataks are a group of prominent coastal nunataks, the highest at 635 metres (2,080 ft), lying inland from George VI Sound and 10 miles (16 km) west-northwest of the Seward Mountains, on the west coast of Palmer Land. They were first s…

  • Bruce Islands

    The Bruce Islands are a group of small islands and rocks 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) northwest of Eillium Island and 3 nautical miles (6 km) northwest of Route Point, the northwest tip of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands. They were first rou…

  • Bravo Hills

    The Bravo Hills are a group of low peaks rising to 780 metres (2,560 ft), which border the Ross Ice Shelf between Gough Glacier and Le Couteur Glacier.

  • Bravo Glacier

    Bravo Glacier is a glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 2.1 km in northwest-southeast direction and 2.3 km in southwest-northeast direction and draining the south slopes of Dryanovo Heights to flow southeas…

  • Brattnipane Peaks

    Brattnipane Peaks is a group of peaks, the highest 2,660 metres (8,730 ft) high, standing 9 nautical miles (17 km) northwest of Mefjell Mountain in the Sør Rondane Mountains. They were mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1946 from air photos taken …

  • Brandau Rocks

    The Brandau Rocks are rock exposures 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) west of Carapace Nunatak in Victoria Land. They were reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program Allan Hills Expedition (1964), who named the rocks for Lieutenant Command…

  • Boyer Bluff

    Boyer Bluff is a mostly ice-covered bluff, 1,080 metres (3,540 ft) high, at the southwest periphery of the Darley Hills in the Churchill Mountains. The feature is 4 nautical miles (7 km) southwest of Constellation Dome. It was named by the Advisory …

  • Bowman Inlet

    Bowman Inlet is an ice-filled inlet between Kay Nunatak and Platt Point on the Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula, on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The inlet was photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth, November 23, 1935, and its western s…

  • Bowles Creek

    Bowles Creek is a glacial meltwater distributary stream, 0.25 nautical miles (0.5 km) long, which flows east from Maria Creek into the southwest end of Lake Fryxell, close west of Green Creek, in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land. The name was suggested …

  • Bousquet Island

    Bousquet Island, 0.3 miles (0.48 km) long, lies immediately east of Herring Island in the Windmill Islands. It was first mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump in 1946 and 1947. Named by C. R. Eklund, station scientific leader, for U…

  • Boss Peak

    Boss Peak is an isolated black peak, 2,170 metres (7,120 ft) high, at the east side of the terminus of Jutland Glacier, 8 nautical miles (15 km) north-northeast of Thomson Peak, in the northwestern part of the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land.

  • Bonney Bowl

    Bonney Bowl is a cirque to the southeast of Sumgin Buttress in the west-central part of the Herbert Mountains, Shackleton Range. It was photographed from the air by the U.S.

  • Biser Point

    Biser Point (Bulgarian: нос Бисер, ‘Nos Biser’ \'nos 'bi-ser\) is the narrow rocky point next north of the terminus of Rusalka Glacier and forming the east side of the entrance to Dimitrov Cove on the northwest coast of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham…

  • Benedict Peak

    Benedict Peak is a sharp, mostly ice-covered subsidiary peak standing 6 nautical miles (11 km) northeast of the summit of Mount Murphy, in Marie Byrd Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air phot…

  • Belozem Hill

    Belozem Hill (Halm Belozem \'h&lm be-lo-'zem\) is the northeasternmost of a chain of hills along Bulgarian Beach on Hurd Peninsula in the east of Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica. The hill is boulder-clay capped with twin peak…

  • Belimel Bay

    Belimel Bay (Bulgarian: залив Белимел, ‘Zaliv Belimel’ \'za-liv 'be-li-mel\) is a 5.9 km wide bay indenting for 3.9 km the southwest coast of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.

  • Belding Island

    Belding Island is an island 3 nautical miles (6 km) long, lying west of the south end of Watkins Island, Biscoe Islands. It was mapped from air photos taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–57), and named by th…

  • Beehive Hill

    Beehive Hill is an ice-covered hill in Antarctica, which rises to 2,030 metres (6,660 ft) and projects 610 metres (2,000 ft) above the surrounding ice sheet. It is situated on the plateau of Graham Land 10 nautical miles (19 km) east of the head of …

  • Beall Island

    Beall Island (66°18′S110°29′E) is an Antarctic rocky island, 1.1 mi (1.8 km) long, with small coves indenting the east and west sides, lying 0.2 mi (0.32 km) northwest of Mitchell Peninsula in the Windmill Islands. It was first mapped from air phot…

  • Batak Point

    Batak Point (Bulgarian: нос Батак, ‘Nos Batak’ \'nos ba-'tak\) is a point on the northwest coast of Smith Island, South Shetland Islands situated 7 km north-northeast of Cape James, 2.5 km south-southwest of Lista Point and 1.7 km northwest of Organ…

  • Banna Peak

    Banna Peak is a peak, 2,420 metres (7,940 ft) high, that surmounts the south end of Banna Ridge in the northwest part of the Britannia Range of mountains in Antarctica. It was named in association with Britannia by a University of Waikato (New Zeala…

  • Bancroft Bay

    Bancroft Bay is a bay lying between Charlotte Bay and Wilhelmina Bay, along the west coast of Graham Land. The bay was first roughly indicated by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897–99. It was remapped by the Falkland Islands Depen…

  • Baker Ridge

    Baker Ridge is a ridge extending west for 5 nautical miles (9 km) from the northern part of the Washington Escarpment in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air…

  • Avicenna Bay

    Avicenna Bay is a small bay lying 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of D'Ursel Point along the east side of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.

  • Austnes Peninsula

    Austnes Peninsula (66°42′S57°17′E) is a short, broad, ice-covered peninsula forming the southeast end of Edward VIII Plateau and the north side of the entrance to Edward VIII Bay; Cape Gotley marks the extremity of this peninsula.

  • Austin Rocks

    The Austin Rocks (63°26′S61°4′W) are a group of rocks which extend about 3 miles (5 km) in a northeast–southwest, lying in Bransfield Strait 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Trinity Island. Charted by a British expedition, 1828–31, under Commander Hen…

  • Austhamaren Peak

    Austhamaren Peak is a peak, 2,060 metres (6,760 ft) high, standing close east of Byrdbreen in the Sør Rondane Mountains. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1946 from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and in 1957 …

  • Aurkvaevane Cirques

    The Aurkvaevane Cirques are a set of three cirques with moraine-covered floors, indenting the west side of Kvaevefjellet Mountain in the Payer Mountains of Queen Maud Land.

  • Aurhø Peak

    Aurhø Peak (72°8′S3°11′W) is a peak with a gravel moraine on the northwest side, situated 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Slettfjell in the Ahlmann Ridge of Queen Maud Land.

  • Atom Rock

    Atom Rock (66°28′S66°26′W) is an insular rock 0.5 miles (0.8 km) northeast of Rambler Island in the Bragg Islands, lying in Crystal Sound off the west coast of Graham Land.

  • Astakhov Glacier

    Astakhov Glacier (70°45′S163°21′E) is the glacier next south of Chugunov Glacier in the Explorers Range, Bowers Mountains. It flows northeast from Mount Hager and enters Ob' Bay just west of Platypus Ridge, the glacier is situated in Victoria Land,…

  • Asquith Bluff

    Asquith Bluff (83°30′S167°21′E) is a prominent wedge-shaped rock bluff on the west side of Lennox-King Glacier, 4 miles (6 km) southeast of Mount Allen Young. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09) and named Mount Asquith f…