Avian Island
Avian Island is an island, 1.2 km (0.7 mi) long and 40 metres (130 ft) high, lying close off the south tip of Adelaide Island, Antarctica.
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Avery Plateau (66°50′S65°30′W) is an ice-covered plateau, about 40 miles (64 km) long and rising to about 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), midway between Loubet Coast and Foyn Coast in Graham Land. The first sighting of this plateau is not ascertained, but…
Avalanche Bay
Avalanche Bay is a bay 1 mile (1.6 km) wide, lying just southeast of Discovery Bluff in Granite Harbour, Victoria Land.
Atanasoff Nunatak
Atanasoff Nunatak (Atanasov Nunatak \a-ta-'na-sov 'nu-na-tak\) is a nunatak, a sharp peak rising to 523 m in the east extremity of Bowles Ridge, Livingston Island, Antarctica. The peak sumounts Huron Glacier to the south and east, and Struma Glacier…
Aspis Island
Aspis Island is a small, low lying ice-free island rising to 15 metres (49 ft), easternmost in the Dunbar group off the northwest coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Asen Peak
Asen Peak (Asenov Vrah \a-'se-nov 'vr&h\) is a peak in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak rises to 810 m in the Delchev Ridge of the Tangra Mountains. The peak overlooks Iskar Glacier and Bruix Cove to the …
Arthur Harbour
Arthur Harbour is a small harbour entered between Bonaparte Point and Norsel Point on the south-west coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.
Armstrong Peak
Armstrong Peak is a peak, 1,470 metres (4,820 ft) high, standing 15 nautical miles (28 km) southeast of Mount Codrington in Enderby Land, part of the Australian Antarctic Territory, in East Antarctica.
Ardley Island
Ardley Island is an island 2 km (1.2 mi) long, lying in Maxwell Bay close off the south-west end of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was charted as a peninsula in 1935 by Discovery Investigations personnel of the D…
Amsler Island
Amsler Island is located off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is named after American marine biologists Charles (Chuck) and Margaret (Maggie) Amsler of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The island is a triangular rocky plot of granite…
Ames Range
The Ames Range (75°42′S132°20′W) is an Antarctic range of snow-covered, flat-topped, steep-sided mountains, extending in a N-S direction for 32 km (20 mi) and forming a right angle with the eastern end of the Flood Range in Marie Byrd Land.
Allen Rocks
The Allen Rocks (77°33′S169°9′E) are a small but distinctive group of rocks 2.2 nautical miles (4.1 km) east-northeast of Slattery Peak in the Kyle Hills, Ross Island. The feature includes a central nunatak that in outline resembles the letter 'A'.…
Alexandra Mountains
Alexandra Mountains is a group of low, separated mountains in the north portion of Edward VII Peninsula, just southwest of Sulzberger Bay in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Discovered in January-February 1902 by the British National Antarctic Expediti…
Aheloy Nunatak
Aheloy Nunatak (Ахелойски Нунатак, Aheloyski Nunatak, [axɛˈlɔjski ˈnunatak]) is a rocky 390m peak in the upper Huron Glacier in Livingston Island. The peak forms the northeast extremity of a minor ridge which also features Erma Knoll and Lozen Nunat…
Admiralty Sound
Admiralty Sound is a sound which extends in a NE-SW direction and separates Seymour and Snow Hill Islands from James Ross Island, off the NE end of Antarctic Peninsula. The broad NE part of the sound was named Admiralty Inlet by the British expediti…
Access Point (Antarctica)
Access Point is a rocky point immediately southeast of Biscoe Point and 2 miles (3 km) northwest of Cape Lancaster on the south side of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
Acarospora Peak
Acarospora Peak (86°21′S148°28′W) is a peak 1 mile (2 km) northeast of, and only slightly below the elevation of Mount Czegka, located at the southwest end of Watson Escarpment. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surve…
Ablation Lake
Ablation Lake is a proglacial tidal lake in Ablation Valley, Alexander Island, Antarctica, with stratified saline and fresh water and depths exceeding 117 m (384 ft). The feature is dammed in the upper portion by ice that pushes into the lake from t…
Abbott Spur
Abbott Spur is an ice-covered spur in Victoria Land, Antarctica, separating the lower ends of Rutgers Glacier and Allison Glacier on the west side of the Royal Society Range.
Abbot Ice Shelf
The Abbot Ice Shelf is an ice shelf 250 mi (400 km) long and 40 mi (60 km) wide, bordering Eights Coast from Cape Waite to Pfrogner Point in Antarctica.
Tyuleniy Point
Tyuleniy Point (70°44'S 11°36'E) is a rock point 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) west of Ozhidaniya Cove on the north side of the Schirmacher Hills, Queen Maud Land.
Heywood Island (Antarctica)
Heywood Island is the largest of the islands off the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is named after Captain Peter Heywood, RN (1773–1831), commanding HMS Nereus off the east coast of South America in 1810-1…
Forbes Glacier (Mac. Robertson Land)
Forbes Glacier is a glacier entering the west part of Holme Bay on Mawson Coast, to the north of the Casey Range, in the Framnes Mountains of Antarctica. The glacier was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Chr…
Flat Islands (Antarctica)
The Flat Islands or Flatøyholmane are a small chain of islands which extends 4 km (2.5 mi) in a northeast-southwest direction, lying about 3 km (1.9 mi) north-west of Mawson Station and 3.2 km (2 mi) southwest of Welch Island in the eastern part of …
Dean Island (Antarctica)
Dean Island in the Antarctic is an ice-covered island, 37 kilometres (20 nmi) long and 19 kilometres (10 nmi) wide, lying within the Getz Ice Shelf and midway between Grant Island and Siple Island, off the coast of Marie Byrd Land. It was first sigh…
Mount Black
Mount Black (85°14'S 178°22'W) is a prominent mountain of Antarctica, 3,005 metres (9,860 ft) high, with a gentle snow-covered slope on its southwest side and a steep rock face on its northwest side, forming a part of the polar escarpment just west …
Škorpil Glacier
Škorpil Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Шкорпил, ‘Lednik Škorpil’ \'led-nik 'shkor-pil\) is the 12 km long and 10 km wide glacier on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated northeast of Stefan Ice Piedmont and W o…
Øygarden Group
Øygarden Group is a group of rocky, irregular islands which extends about 18 kilometres (11 mi) in an east-west direction, lying in the southern part of the entrance to Edward VIII Bay. First sighted in February 1936 by Discovery Investigations pers…
Zuncich Hill
Zuncich Hill (75°50′S142°51′W) is a broad, ice-covered hill (1,075 m) rising between the heads of Siemiatkowski Glacier and El-Sayed Glacier in Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos,…
Zumberge Coast
Zumberge Coast is that portion of the southeast coast of Palmer Land between Cape Zumberge and the south entrance point to Hercules Inlet. Overlooking the west part of Ronne Ice Shelf, this coast was mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) …
Zub Lake
Zub Lake (70°45′S11°44′E) is a lake about 0.5 miles (800 m) long, lying 1 mile (1,600 m) east-southeast of Tsentral'naya Hill in the Schirmacher Hills, Queen Maud Land.
Zotikov Glacier
Zotikov Glacier (85°2′S169°15′W) is a tributary glacier, 8 miles (13 km) long, flowing northeast from Mount Fisher in the Prince Olav Mountains and entering Liv Glacier just east of Hardiman Peak. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-…
Zohn Nunataks
Zohn Nunataks (74°58′S72°49′W) is a set of three nunataks, the largest being Cheeks Nunatak, rising to 1,310 m in the southwest part of Grossman Nunataks, Palmer Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aeri…
Zigzag Island
Zigzag Island is a small island close off the south coast of Tower Island, Palmer Archipelago.
Ziezi Peak
Ziezi Peak (Vrah Ziezi \'vr&h zi-'e-zi\) ia s rocky peak rising to 320 m in the southeast extremity of Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica overlooking Targovishte Glacier to the west.
Zavala Island
Zavala Island (Bulgarian: остров Завала, ‘Ostrov Zavala’ 'os-trov 'za-va-la) is an ice-free island in the Dunbar group off the northwest coast of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is extending 700 by …