Young Peak is a low peak near the Antarctic coast, standing just south of Holder Peak and 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen. First plotted from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and with Holder Peak calle…
Yotsume Rocks (69°44′S38°7′E) is a group of four distinct rock exposures on the ice-covered north side of Djupvikneset Peninsula, along the southwest shore of Lutzow-Holm Bay.
Yoshida Bluff (79°20′S158°12′E) is a flat-topped bluff which rises to 2000 m at the north side of the head of Carlyon Glacier in Cook Mountains. The bluff is midway between Mill Mountain and Kanak Peak and is ice covered except for rock cliffs at t…
Yoke is an island lying west of the north end of Liege Island in the Palmer Archipelago.
Yambol Peak (Vrah Yambol \'vr&h 'yam-bol\) is a rocky peak rising to 300 m in the south extremity of Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and overlooking Tarnovo Ice Piedmont to the west an…
Wörner Gap (Sedlovina Wörner \se-dlo-vi-'na 'vyor-ner\) is a flat saddle extending 3 km in the south-north direction between Friesland Ridge and Bowles Ridge in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Its elevation decre…
Wulfila Glacier (Lednik Wulfila \'led-nik vul-'fi-la\) is located on the southern slopes of Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, south-southwest of Solis Glacier and west of Zheravna Glacier. It is bounded by …
Wright Island (74°2′S116°50′W) is an ice-covered island 35 mi (56 km) long, lying at the north edge of Getz Ice Shelf about midway between Carney Island and Martin Peninsula, on the Bakutis Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Delineated from air photos taken b…
The Worcester Range is a mountain range in Antarctica standing between the Skelton and Mulock Glaciers on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf. Probably named after the training ship in the Thames, in which many officers of early British Antarctic…
Wood Island is a conspicuous rocky island in Hero Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica lying southeast of Desolation Island and Miladinovi Islets and forming the south side of Blythe Bay.
The Wisconsin Range (85°45′S125°00′W) is a major mountain range of the Horlick Mountains in Antarctica, comprising the Wisconsin Plateau and numerous glaciers, ridges and peaks bounded by the Reedy Glacier, Shimizu Ice Stream, Horlick Ice Stream an…
The Wilson Mountains (72°15′S061°50′W) are a group of mountains including Hjort Massif, rising to approximately 1,600 metres (5,250 ft) to the west of Merz Peninsula, Black Coast, Palmer Land in Antarctica.
Wilson Hills (69°40′S158°30′E) is a group of scattered hills, nunataks and ridges that extend NW-SE for about 110 kilometres (68 mi) between Matusevich Glacier and Pryor Glacier in Antarctica. They were discovered by Lieutenant Harry Pennell, Royal…
William Scoresby Bay is a coastal embayment at the western side of William Scoresby Archipelago, Antarctica. It is 8 kilometres (5 mi) long and 5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi) wide, with shores marked by steep rock headlands and snow-free hills rising to 21…
Wilkins Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Agassiz and Cape Boggs. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Sir Hubert Wilkins, who in a pioneer Antarctic exploratory flight…
Wildwind Glacier is a substantial mountain glacier in Antarctica, 3 nautical miles (6 km) wide, which flows southward into Alatna Valley, draining both the Staten Island Heights and Mount Razorback areas, in the Convoy Range, Victoria Land. So named…
Whitmore Mountains (82°35′S104°30′W) is an isolated group of mountains in West Antarctica, consisting of three mountains and a cluster of nunataks extending over 15 miles. The group was visited and surveyed on January 2, 1959, by William H. Chapman…
Weyprecht Mountains (German: Weyprechtberge) is a small group of mountains about 10 miles (16 km) west of the Payer Mountains, forming the western half of the Hoel Mountains in Queen Maud Land. They were discovered by the Third German Antarctic Expe…
The West Ice Shelf is a prominent ice shelf extending about 288 km (179 mi) in an east-west direction along the Leopold and Astrid Coast in East Antarctica between Barrier Bay and Posadowsky Bay. It was discovered and named by the First German Antar…
Warren Ridge (77°28′S169°5′E) is a SW-NE ridge 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) long on the north slope of Kyle Hills, Ross Island. The ridge rises to c.1100 m at the southwest end and culminates in Dibble Peak, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) north of Ainley Pe…
Wahl Glacier (83°59′S165°6′E) is a glacier, 10 nautical miles (18 km) long, flowing northwest from Grindley Plateau to enter upper Lennox-King Glacier westward of Mount Mackellar. It is named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for B…
Volov Peak (Bulgarian: Връх Волов, ‘Vrah Volov’ \'vr&h 'vo-lov\) is the rocky peak rising to 1148 m at the southwest extremity of Korten Ridge on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica.
Vitosha Saddle (Vitoshka Sedlovina \'vi-tosh-ka se-dlo-vi-'na\) is a narrow ice-covered saddle of elevation 1050 m extending in southwest-northeast direction between Great Needle Peak (Falsa Aguja Peak) and Vihren Peak in the Levski Ridge of Tangra …
Viskyar Ridge (’rid vis-’kyar) is a rocky ridge rising to 600 m and extending 2.5 km in north-south direction in Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The ice-free surface area of the ridge is 135 hectares (330…
Viking Heights is a prominent flat-topped mountain, 2,960 m, between Tanngarden Peaks and Mount Wideroe in the Sor Rondane Mountains, Antarctica. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by U.S.
Vihren Peak is a sharp peak rising to about 1150 m in Levski Ridge of the Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica overlooking Devnya Valley and Huron Glacier to the north-northwest, and Magura Glacier to…
Vidin Heights (Vidinski Vazvisheniya \'vi-din-ski v&z-vi-'she-ni-ya\) are predominantly ice-covered heights rising to 604 m on Varna Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature is approximately 8 km lo…
The Victory Mountains (72°40′S168°00′E) is a major group of mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica, about 160 kilometres (99 mi) long and 80 km (50 mi) wide, which is bounded primarily by Mariner and Tucker glaciers and the Ross Sea.
Verdikal Gap (Bulgarian: Вердикалска седловина, ‘Verdikalska Sedlovina’ \ver-di-'kal-ska se-dlo-vi-'na\) is the flat ice-covered saddle of elevation over 750 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, part of the ice divide between Bransfiel…
Venable Ice Shelf is an ice shelf, 40 miles (60 km) long and 15 miles (24 km) wide, between Fletcher and Allison Peninsulas, Ellsworth Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961-66. Named by Ad…
Veier Head (66°29′S61°42′W) is a high, snow-covered headland which marks the southernmost point of Jason Peninsula on the east coast of Graham Land. Norwegian explorer Captain C.A. Larsen discovered what he charted as an island in this vicinity on …
Vee Cliffs is a steep, mainly ice-covered cliffs, 4 nautical miles (7 km) long, between Aurora and Terror Glaciers on the south shore of Ross Island. The name is suggested by two prominent V-shape wedges which protrude from the cliff wall. The name …
Varna Peninsula (Poluostrov Varna \po-lu-'os-trov 'var-na\) is a roughly rectangular predominantly ice-covered peninsula forming the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Valchedram Island (Bulgarian: остров Вълчедръм, ‘Ostrov Valchedram’ \'os-trov 'v&l-che-dr&m\) is an ice-free island off the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 280 m (310 yd) in southeast-northwest di…
Ustina Point (Bulgarian: нос Устина, ‘Nos Ustina’ \'nos 'us-ti-na\) is a rocky point on the west coast of Tower Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica situated 2.6 km northwest of Peña Point, the south extremity of the island, and 3.5 km south…
Usas Escarpment (76°0′S130°0′W) is an expansive but discontinuous north-facing escarpment in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It is about 320 kilometres (199 mi) long, extending roughly west to east along the 76th parallel south from where the elevatio…