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  • Litchfield Island

    Litchfield Island is a rocky island 0.8 km (0.50 mi) long and rising to 50 m (164 ft), lying in Arthur Harbour, 0.8 km (0.50 mi) south of Norsel Point, off the south-west coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.

  • Latady Island

    Latady Island is a low ice-covered island off Antarctica, about 35 nautical miles (60 km) long and more than 10 nautical miles (20 km) wide, lying 45 nautical miles (80 km) south of Charcot Island and west of Alexander Island. An ice-covered feature…

  • Land Glacier

    Land Glacier (75°40′S141°45′W) is a broad, heavily crevassed glacier, about 35 nautical miles (60 km) long, descending into Land Bay in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the U.S. Antarctic Service (1939–41) and named for Rear Admira…

  • Lambert Graben

    Lambert Graben is a graben in Antarctica. It intersects the coast at Prydz Bay and contains the largest glacier in the world, Lambert Glacier. The graben is a Permian rift which contains coal beds.

  • Lake Brownworth

    Lake Brownworth is a meltwater lake immediately west of Wright Lower Glacier at the east end of Wright Valley, Victoria Land. The lake was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and air photos obtained in 1956–60. It was n…

  • La Morenita (Antarctica)

    La Morenita is a conspicuous rocky hill rising to 93 m in the southwest extremity of Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting the Argentine Antarctic base Cámara in its northern foothills, Menguante Cove to the nort…

  • Kurze Mountains

    The Kurze Mountains (German: Kurzegebirge) are a range of mainly bare rock peaks, ridges and mountains about 20 nautical miles (40 km) long and 6 nautical miles (11 km) wide in the Orvin Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.

  • Krusha Peak

    Krusha Peak (Bulgarian: връх Круша, ‘Vrah Krusha’ \'vr&h 'kru-sha\) is the peak rising to 2800 m in Owen Ridge, southern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, surmounting Bolgrad Glacier to the southeast and Brook Glacier to the northwe…

  • Krum Rock

    Krum Rock (Bulgarian: Krumov Kamak \'kru-mov 'ka-m&k\) is a small nunatak rising to 208 metres on the southwest edge of Balkan Snowfield just north of Contell Glacier on Hurd Peninsula in eastern Livingston Island, one of the South Shetland Islands …

  • Kranevo Point

    Kranevo Point (Bulgarian: нос Кранево, ‘Nos Kranevo’ \'nos 'kra-ne-vo\) is a rocky point on the northwest coast of Tower Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica forming the south side of the entrance to Mindya Cove.

  • Koshava Island

    Koshava Island (Bulgarian: остров Кошава, ‘Ostrov Koshava’ \'os-trov ko-'sha-va\) is the easternmost island in the Zed group off Varna Peninsula, northeastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The island is ice-free, exten…

  • Kokiche Col

    Kokiche Col (Bulgarian: седловина Кокиче, ‘Sedlovina Kokiche’ \se-dlo-vi-'na ko-'ki-che\) is the ice-covered col of elevation over 800 m extending 650 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, which is linking Aureole Hills to the northwest…

  • Jøkulkyrkja Mountain

    Jøkulkyrkja Mountain ("the Glacier Church"), also known as Massiv Yakova Gakkelya, is a broad, ice-topped mountain with several radial rock spurs, standing east of Lunde Glacier in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. At…

  • Jutulsessen

    Jutulsessen is a nunatak in the Gjelsvikfjellene mountain range in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It is located in Princess Martha Coast, 235 kilometers (146 mi) from the coast and King Haakon VII Sea. Jutulsessen is the site of the Norwegian research…

  • Joinville Island group

    Joinville Island group is a group of antarctic islands, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which Joinville Island group is separated by the Antarctic Sound. Joinville Island, located at (63°15′S55°45′W), is the largest …

  • Jagged Rocks

    The Jagged Rocks (63°24′S56°59′W) are a group of rocks lying near the center of Hut Cove in the eastern part of Hope Bay, at the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula. First charted in 1903 by a party under J.

  • Isdalen Valley

    Isdalen Valley (71°44′S12°30′E) is an ice-filled valley between Aurdalsegga Ridge and Isdalsegga Ridge in the Südliche Petermann Range of the Wohlthat Mountains in Antarctica.

  • Ironside Glacier

    Ironside Glacier is a glacier, about 30 mi (48 km) long, originating at the south side of Mount Minto in the Admiralty Mountains and draining southeast between Mount Whewell and Mount Herschel into Moubray Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica.

  • Intuition Peak

    Intuition Peak (Vrah Intuitsiya \'vr&h in-tu-'i-tsi-ya\) is a sharp Antarctic peak of elevation 780 m in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is surmounting Iskar Glacier to the east and D…

  • Ingrid Christensen Coast

    The Ingrid Christensen Coast is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between Jennings Promontory, in 72°33′E, and the western end of the West Ice Shelf in 81°24′E.

  • Index Point

    Index Point (73°21′S167°55′E) is a low, ice-covered point that forms the eastern extremity of the Mountaineer Range on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The feature lies at the terminus of Mariner Glacier, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Emerging …

  • Inaccessible Islands

    The Inaccessible Islands ("Islas Inaccesibles" in Spanish) are a group of small precipitous islands ranging from 120 to 215 m (394 to 705 ft) high, the westernmost features of the South Orkney Islands, lying 20 km (12 mi) west of Coronation Island i…

  • Imeon Range

    Imeon Range (Bulgarian: Хребет Имеон, ‘Hrebet Imeon’ \'hre-bet i-me-'on\) (62°58′30″S62°30′20″W) is a mountain range occupying the interior of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending 30 km in southwest-northeast direction …

  • Ice Gate Glacier

    Ice Gate Glacier (64°54′S62°45′W) is a narrow hanging glacier, tributary to Astudillo Glacier, between rock spurs on the west slope of Dallmeyer Peak, Danco Coast, Antarctica.

  • Hovgaard Island

    Hovgaard Island is an island 5 km (3 mi) long, lying off the northwest coast of Kiev Peninsula, 2.4 km (1.5 mi) southwest of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica.

  • Holtanna Peak

    Holtanna Peak is a peak, 2,650 metres (8,700 ft) high, whose eastern portion is occupied by a small cirque glacier, standing 1 nautical mile (2 km) north of the Mundlauga Crags in the eastern part of Fenriskjeften Mountain in Queen Maud Land, Antarc…

  • Hoel Mountains

    The Hoel Mountains (72°0′S14°0′E) are a group of mountains including the Weyprecht Mountains and the Payer Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.

  • Hodgson Lake

    Hodgson Lake is a perennially ice-covered freshwater lake, which is about 2 km (1.2 mi) long by about 1.5 km (0.93 mi) wide. It is located within the southern part of Alexander Island, west of Palmer Land in Antarctica, at approximately 72°S latitud…

  • Hobbs Coast

    Hobbs Coast (74°50′S132°0′W) is that portion of the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica extending from Cape Burks to a point on the coast opposite eastern Dean Island, at (74°42′S127°05′W) or between the Ruppert Coast in the west and the Bakutis…

  • Heritage Range

    The Heritage Range is a major mountain range, 160 km (99 mi) long and 48 km (30 mi) wide, situated southward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the southern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica.

  • Hemus Peak

    Hemus Peak (Vrah Hemus \'vr&h 'he-mus\) is an ice-covered peak rising to 636 m off the northwest extremity of Bowles Ridge in eastern Livingston Island. The feature is breast-shaped, 850 m long in east-west direction and 550 m wide, and overlooks Ka…

  • Hell Gates

    Hell Gates (62°40′20.3″S61°10′46.4″W) is a narrow (20 m wide) boat passage between the Vardim Rocks and Devils Point on Byers Peninsula, connecting Raskuporis Cove and Osogovo Bay at the southwest end of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Isla…

  • Heimefront Range

    The Heimefront Range is a range of mountains in three groups trending northeast–southwest for 65 nautical miles (120 km), situated 50 nautical miles (93 km) west-southwest of the Kirwan Escarpment in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. The range was observ…

  • Hannah Point

    Hannah Point is a point on the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It forms the east side of the entrance to Walker Bay and the west side of the entrance to South Bay. Surmounted by Ustra Peak to the north, wi…

  • Half Moon Beach

    Half Moon Beach is a small crescent-shaped beach lying 1 nautical mile (2 km) south-east of Scarborough Castle on the north coast of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.