Sibelius Glacier (69°55′S70°5′W) is a glacier, 12 miles (19 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) wide, flowing south into the Mozart Ice Piedmont 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Mount Stephenson situated in the northern portion of Alexander Island, Antarctic…
Shults Peninsula (78°52′S162°39′E) is a bold, mainly ice-covered cove, 10 miles (16 km) long and 5 miles (8 km) wide, at the east side of the mouth of Skelton Glacier to the south of Victoria Land. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USG…
Shortcut Island is a crescent-shaped island 0.64 km (0.4 mi) long, with three prominent indentations of the north shore, lying 1.1 km (0.7 mi) SSE of Gamage Point and Palmer Station along the SW coast of Anvers Island. The suggestive name was given …
Short Island (63°57′S60°24′W) is an island lying 4.0 km (2.5 miles) southwest of Cape Page, close off the west coast of Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1952. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC…
Shoemaker Peak (79°51′S82°19′W) is a peak on the east side of Ahrnsbrak Glacier, 3 miles (4.8 km) east-southeast of Sutton Peak in the Enterprise Hills, Heritage Range. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.…
Shirase Coast (78°30′S156°0′W) is the north segment of the relatively ill-defined coast along the east side of Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Sea, lying between the north end of Siple Coast (about (80°10′S151°00′W) and Cape Colbeck. Named by NZ-APC in 19…
Shipka Saddle (Shipchenska Sedlovina \'ship-chen-ska se-dlo-vi-'na\) is a deep ice-covered saddle in Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island, Antarctica between Friesland Ridge to the west and Levski Ridge to the east. The feature is 250 m long, with an…
Ship Cone (76°40′S159°35′E) is a conical peak, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Townrow Peak on the Tilman Ridge in Allan Hills, Oates Land.
Shepard Island or John Shepard Island is an island about 11 miles (17.7 km) long, lying 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Grant Island off the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Shepard Island is located at (74°25′S132°30′W). Shepard Island is ice capped…
Sheila Cove (60°45′S44°46′W) is a cove in the southwest part of Jessie Bay on the north coast of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands. Surveyed and named by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902–04, for Sheila Bruce, daughter of Wi…
Shaw Islands (67°33′S47°44′E) is a group of four islands lying 3.2 km (2 mi) north of the central part of McKinnon Island, off the coast of Enderby Land. Plotted from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) air photos taken in 19…
Shark Peak (68°3′S62°41′E) is an isolated nunatak 3.5 miles (6 km) south-southwest of Van Hulssen Nunatak in the Framnes Mountains of Mac. Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1…
Shapeless Mountain (77°26′S160°24′E) is a massive mountain, 2,740 m, standing west of the head of Balham Valley in Victoria Land in Antarctica.
Shackleton Icefalls (85°8′S164°0′E) is extensive icefalls of the upper Beardmore Glacier, southward of Mount Darwin and Mount Mills.
Sfinksen Nunatak (72°18′S3°47′W) is a nunatak about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Pyramiden Nunatak, at the southwest end of Ahlmann Ridge in Queen Maud Land.
Serdica Peak (Vrah Serdica \'vr&h 'ser-di-ka\) rises to approximately 1,200 m in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Linked to Silistra Knoll to the west-southwest by Kotel Gap.
Seller Glacier is a well-defined glacier, 20 nautical miles (37 km) long and 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide flowing westward into Forster Ice Piedmont, western Antarctic Peninsula, just north of Flinders Peak.
Sealer Hill is a hill rising to 91 m in the southwest part of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It surmounts Nikopol Point and Sevar Point to the east-southeast and west-southwest, respectively.
Sea Lion Tarn (Ezero Morski Lav \'e-ze-ro 'mor-ski 'l&v\) is a freshwater tarn with an area of 0.3 ha (0.74 acres) located between Sea Lion Glacier and the north-western slopes of Atlantic Club Ridge on Hurd Peninsula in eastern Livingston Island in…
Scott Glacier (66°30′S100°20′E) is a glacier, 7 miles (11.3 km) wide and over 20 miles (32 km) long, flowing north-northwest to the Antarctic coast between Denman Glacier and Mill Island. It was discovered by the Western Base Party of the Australas…
Schytt Glacier (71°35′S3°40′W) is a broad glacier about 60 miles (100 km) long, flowing northward between Giaever and Ahlmann Ridge in Queen Maud Land to the Jelbart Ice Shelf. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the No…
Scend Rocks is a small group of rocks lying 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) southwest of Rumbler Rock and 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) west-northwest of Outcast Islands, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago.
The Scaife Mountains (75°06′S065°08′W) is a group of mountains rising west of Prehn Peninsula and between the Ketchum and Ueda glaciers, in Palmer Land, at the base of Antarctic Peninsula.
Saunders Coast (77°45′S150°0′W) is that portion of the coast of Marie Byrd Land between Cape Colbeck and Brennan Point, or between Shirase Coast in the west and Ruppert Coast in the east. It stretches from 158°01'W to 146°31'W. The portion west of …
Not to be confused with Sandefjord Bay on the west side Coronation Island!
Sandanski Point (Nos Sandanski \'nos san-'dan-ski\) is the point forming the north side of the entrance to Stoyanov Cove on the east coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, projecting 600 m …
San Telmo Island is an island forming the west side of Shirreff Cove on the north-west coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
Saedinenie Snowfield (Lednik Saedinenie \'led-nik s&-e-di-'ne-ni-e\) on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is situated southwest of Rose Valley Glacier, west of Panega Glacier, northwest of Kaliakra Glacier, north of lower P…
Saddle Peak is the name of several mountains:
Rutford Ice Stream (79°00′S81°00′W) is a major Antarctic ice stream, about 180 miles long and over 15 miles wide, which drains southeastward between the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains and Fletcher Ice Rise into the southwest part of Ronne Ice …
Rusokastro Rock (Bulgarian: скала Русокастро, ‘Skala Rusokastro’ ska-'la ru-so-'kas-tro) is a twin rock at the north entrance to McFarlane Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 170 m in northwest-southeast direction and 70 m wid…
Ruppert Coast (75°45′S141°0′W) is that portion of the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, between Brennan Point and Cape Burks, or between Saunders Coast in the west and Hobbs Coast in the east. It stretches from 146°31'W to 136°50'W. It was name…
Rozhen Peninsula (Poluostrov Rozhen \po-lu-'os-trov 'ro-zhen\) extends 9 km in the southwest direction towards Barnard Point, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, and 8.8 km wide. It is bounded by False Bay and its segment In…
Rowett Island is a rocky island 0.5 miles (0.8 km) long, lying immediately off Cape Lookout, Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Rowett Island is located at (61°17′S55°13′W).
The Rouen Mountains (69°10′S70°53′W) are a prominent mountain range, reaching to about 2,800 m and extending 35 miles (60 km) NW-SE from Mount Bayonne to Care Heights and Mount Cupola, in north Alexander Island, Antarctica. This mountain range is k…
Rose Valley Glacier (Bulgarian: Lednik Rozova Dolina \'led-nik 'ro-zo-va do-li-'na\) is a glacier on Varna Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated northeast of Saedinenie Snowfield, northwest of Debelt…