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  • Uranus Glacier

    Uranus Glacier (71°24′S68°20′W) is a glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica, 20 miles (32 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) wide at its mouth, flowing east into George VI Sound immediately south of Fossil Bluff.

  • Upper Island

    Upper Island (66°0′S65°39′W) is a narrow island at the north side of Mutton Cove, lying between Cliff and Harp Islands and 13 km (8 miles) west of Prospect Point, off the west coast of Graham Land.

  • Ufsebrotet Bluff

    Ufsebrotet Bluff (71°23′S13°17′E) is a steep bluff located 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Mount Zimmermann in the central Gruber Mountains of the Wohlthat Mountains, Queen Maud Land.

  • Two Hummock Island

    Two Hummock Island is an ice-covered island, 9.4 kilometres (6 mi) long in a north-south direction, conspicuous for its two rocky summits Buache Peak and Modev Peak 670 m (2,198 ft) high, lying 9.6 kilometres (6 mi) southeast of Liege Island and 11.…

  • Tverrbrekka Pass

    Tverrbrekka Pass is an east-west pass through the Sverdrup Mountains between Vendeholten Mountain and Tverrveggen Ridge, in Queen Maud Land. Photographed from the air by the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–39).

  • Tutrakan Peak

    Tutrakan Peak (Vrah Tutrakan \'vr&h 'tu-tra-kan\) is a rocky peak of 810 m in the Levski Ridge of the Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Devnya Valley to the east, and Huron Glacier and its tr…

  • Tunga Spur

    Tunga Spur is a prominent rock spur extending from the Kirwan Escarpment just southwest of Gommen Valley, in Queen Maud Land.

  • Tucker Glacier

    Tucker Glacier is a major valley glacier of Victoria Land, about 144 km (90 mi) long, flowing southeast between Admiralty Mountains and Victory Mountains to the Ross Sea.

  • Triangle Point

    Triangle Point is the low ice-free tipped point forming the northwest side of the entrance to Shopski Cove in the south coast of Parvomay Neck linking the northwest and southeast parts of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Trey Peaks

    Trey Peaks is a set of three conspicuous Antarctic rock peaks, the highest 1,180 metres. They stand west of Blaiklock Glacier and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) north of Mount Homard in the west part of Shackleton Range.

  • Toney Mountain

    Toney Mountain is an elongated snow-covered shield volcano, 60 km (38 mi) long and rising to 3,595 m in Richmond Peak, located 56 km (35 mi) SW of Kohler Range in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. A 3 km-wide summit caldera tops the volcano and a sample …

  • Tinker Glacier

    The Tinker Glacier is 25 miles long glacier in Antarctica, draining the central part of the Southern Cross Mountains and flowing SE into Wood Bay, on the coast of Victoria Land. Named by the Northern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarc…

  • Timok Cove

    Timok Cove (Bulgarian: залив Тимок, ‘Zaliv Timok’ \'za-liv 'ti-mok\) is a 580 m wide cove indenting for 400 m the north coast of Rugged Island off the west coast of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, and …

  • The Quadrangle (Antarctica)

    The Quadrangle is an ice-covered area (essentially a glacial cirque) enclosed on three sides by rock ridges, but open to the south, lying between Mount Umbriel and Venus Glacier in eastern Alexander Island, Antarctica. The Quadrangle was first mappe…

  • Thala Rock

    Thala Rock is an isolated, submerged rock lying off the Vestfold Hills, about 0.3 nautical miles (0.6 km) from the western point of Turner Island, bearing 250. The depth of water over the rock probably does not exceed 1 fathom. The rock was struck b…

  • Teres Ridge

    Teres Ridge (Hrebet Teres \'hre-bet 'te-res\) is a ridge of elevation 330 m extending 2 km in north-south direction and 1.2 km in east-west direction near Siddins Point on the Hero Bay coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarc…

  • Telish Rock

    Telish Rock (Bulgarian: скала Телиш, ‘Skala Telish’ ska-'la te-'lish) is the islet off the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated 400 m (437 yd) south of Elephant Point and 3 km (1.86 mi) northwest by wes…

  • Telefon Rocks

    Telefon Rocks (62°15′S58°27′W) is a group of rocks 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-southwest of Demay Point, at the west side of the entrance to Admiralty Bay, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands.

  • Tarnovo Ice Piedmont

    Tarnovo Ice Piedmont (Lednik Tarnovo \'led-nik 't&r-no-vo\) on Rozhen Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is situated southeast of Charity Glacier and west-southwest of Prespa Glacier.

  • Targovishte Glacier

    Targovishte Glacier (Lednik Targovishte \'led-nik t&r-'go-vi-shte\) is situated in Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, east of Zheravna Glacier and southwest of Musala Glacier.

  • Table Island (South Shetland Islands)

    Table Island is a conspicuous flat-topped, rocky island lying north of Greenwich Island and north-northwest of the Aitcho group on the west side of English Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The island is rising to over 150 m (492 ft)…

  • Tabarin Peninsula

    Tabarin Peninsula (63°32′S57°0′W) is a peninsula 15 nautical miles (28 km) long and 5 to 12 nautical miles (22 km) wide, lying south of the trough between Hope Bay and Duse Bay and forming the east extremity of Trinity Peninsula in the Antarctic Pe…

  • Symington Islands

    Symington Islands (65°27′S64°58′W) is a group of small islands lying 21 km (13 mi) west-northwest of Lahille Island, in the Biscoe Islands. Charted by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill, 1934-37. Named by the United Kingdom Anta…

  • Sweeney Mountains

    The Sweeney Mountains (75°06′S069°15′W) is a group of mountains of moderate height and about 64 km (40 mi) extent, located 48 km (30 mi) north of the Hauberg Mountains in Palmer Land, Antarctica.

  • Surge Rocks

    Surge Rocks (64°47′S64°4′W) are a group of five rocks, two always exposed, lying 0.1 miles southwest of Eichorst Island and 0.6 miles south-southeast of Bonaparte Point, Anvers Island.

  • Supporters Range

    The Supporters Range (85°04′S169°30′E) is a rugged range of mountains in Antarctica, 40 km long, bordering the eastern side of Mill Glacier, from Keltie Glacier in the north to Mill Stream Glacier in the south.

  • Support Force Glacier

    Support Force Glacier is a major glacier in the Pensacola Mountains, draining northward between the Forrestal Range and Argentina Range to the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and US Navy air photo…

  • Suess Glacier

    Suess Glacier (77°38′S162°40′E) is a glacier between Canada Glacier and Lacroix Glacier, flowing south into Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica.

  • Struma Glacier

    Struma Glacier (Lednik Struma \'led-nik 'stru-ma\) is a glacier in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated south of lower Kaliakra Glacier and north of Huron Glacier.

  • Strandzha Glacier

    Strandzha Glacier (Lednik Strandzha \'led-nik 'stran-dzha\) is located on Burgas Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica northeast of Ropotamo Glacier, south of Sopot Ice Piedmont and southwest of Pautalia Glac…

  • Storkvarvet Mountain

    Storkvarvet Mountain is a mountain that is round in plan and has several radial spurs, standing N of Habermehl Peak at the NE end of the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains, Queen Maud Land.

  • Starosel Gate

    Starosel Gate (Staroselska Porta \sta-ro-'sel-ska 'por-ta\) is a 150-m wide pass of elevation 500 m situated between St. Naum Peak and the north extremity of Balchik Ridge in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island, Antarctica. Providing…