Mount Aurora
Mount Aurora is a round-topped volcanic summit, 1,040 metres (3,410 ft) high, the highest point on Black Island in the Ross Archipelago.
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Mount Anderson is a high mountain in the northern part of the Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. Probuda Ridge is trending northeast of the peak, and Embree Glacier and Ellen Glacier's tributary Fonfon Glacier drain its northeastern …
Mount Amundsen
Mount Amundsen is a nunatak lying east of Denman Glacier, about 11 nautical miles (20 km) northeast of Mount Sandow.
Mount Allen (Antarctica)
Mount Allen (78°41′46″S85°01′10″W) is a mountain (3,430 m) located 5.2 mi southeast of Mount Craddock in Owen Ridge, the southernmost portion of the main ridge of Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The peak surmounts Saltzman Glacie…
Mount Achala
Mount Achala (62°55′S60°42′W) is a peak rising to 680 m at the north end of Telefon Ridge, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
Mount Aaron
Mount Aaron (74°31′S64°53′W) is a mountain in the northwest part of the Latady Mountains in Palmer Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–67. It was named by the Advisory Committee …
Moubray Glacier
Moubray Glacier is a rather steep glacier flowing south to Moubray Bay from Adare Saddle on Adare Peninsula in Antarctica. It is one of the main contributors of ice to Moubray Piedmont Glacier.
Moscow University Ice Shelf
Moscow University Ice Shelf (67°S121°E) is a narrow ice shelf, about 120 nautical miles (220 km) long, which fringes the Sabrina Coast of Antarctica between Totten Glacier and Paulding Bay. Dalton Iceberg Tongue extends north from the eastern part …
Morton Strait
Morton Strait is the 9 km (4.9 nmi)-long and 6.2 km (3.3 nmi)-wide strait between Snow Island on the southwest and Rugged Island and Livingston Island on the northeast, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Moon Bay
Moon Bay is a bay 7 nautical miles (13 km) wide which recedes 4 nautical miles (7 km) between Edinburgh Hill and Renier Point, on the east side of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands off Antarctica.
Molley Corner
Molley Corner is a point on the north side of Rohss Bay, James Ross Island, Antarctica, 3 nautical miles (6 km) east of Cape Obelisk. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1983 after William Molley, Third Mate in HMS Terror of th…
Minaret Peak
Minaret Peak is a distinctive rock peak at the northwest end of the Marble Hills in the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica.
Millerand Island
Millerand Island or Cap Millerand is a high rugged island 5 km (3 mi) in diameter, lying 6 km (4 mi) south of Cape Calmette, off the west coast of Graham Land. Millerand Island is located at (68°09′S67°13′W). Millerand Island was discovered by the …
Miller Range
The Miller Range (83°15′S157°00′E) is a mountain range extending south from Nimrod Glacier for 80 km (50 mi) along the western edge of the Marsh Glacier in Antarctica. Named for J.H. "Bob" (now Sir J. Holmes) Miller, a member of the New Zealand par…
Millen Range
The Millen Range (72°20′S166°15′E) is a prominent northwest–southeast trending mountain range, located west of the Cartographers Range in the Victory Mountains of Antarctica. Peaks in the range include Inferno, Omega, Le Couteur, Head, Cirque, Gles…
Miladinovi Islets
Miladinovi Islets (Miladinovi Ostrovi \mi-la-'di-no-vi 'o-stro-vi\) is a group of two small rocky islands, 500 by 370 m (550 by 400 yd) (surface area 11 hectares (27 acres)), and 350 by 200 m (380 by 220 yd) respectively, situated 300 m (330 yd) sou…
Miers Valley
Miers Valley (78°6′S164°0′E) is a valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys located just south of Marshall Valley and west of Koettlitz Glacier, on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The valley is ice-free in the Austral summer except for Miers Glacie…
Merrick Mountains
The Merrick Mountains (75°06′S72°04′W). are a cluster of mountains, 13 km (8 mi) long, standing 11 km (7 mi) northeast of the Behrendt Mountains in Palmer Land, Antarctica.
Merrell Valley
Merrell Valley is a valley in the Convoy Range of Antarctica.
Menguante Cove
Menguante Cove is an 1.47 km wide embayment indenting for 1.22 km the east coast of the horseshoe-shaped Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Mellona Rocks
Mellona Rocks is a group of scattered rocks lying at the north entrance to Nelson Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and extending 1.7 by 0.9 km (1.06 by 0.56 mi).
Medven Glacier
Medven Glacier (Lednik Medven \'led-nik 'med-ven\) is a 2.5 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier on Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated east of Etar Snowfield, south of Urdoviza Glacier and no…
Meade Islands
Meade Islands is a group of two large islands, Zverino Island and Cave Island, the minor Pisanitsa Island, and several rocks lying in the north entrance to McFarlane Strait, off Archar Peninsula, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antar…
McIntyre Island
McIntyre Island (66°14′S110°34′E) is a small Antarctic island just west of Blakeney Point, Clark Peninsula, in the Windmill Islands. It was photographed from the air by USN Operation Highjump in 1946-47 and was included in a 1957 ground survey by C…
McCuddin Mountains
The McCuddin Mountains is a small cluster of mountains in Antarctica consisting mainly of two large mountains, Mount Flint and Mount Petras, along with several scattered peaks and nunataks. Located in Marie Byrd Land, 64 km (40 mi) east of the Ames …
Mawson Coast
The Mawson Coast is that portion of the coast of Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica, lying between William Scoresby Bay, at 59°34′E, and Murray Monolith, at 66°54′E. The coast was sighted during the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Exp…
Martin Peninsula
Martin Peninsula (74°20′S114°30′W) is a peninsula about 96 km (60) mi long and 32 km (20 mi) wide that is ice covered except for a few rock outcrops along its margins, located between Getz Ice Shelf and Dotson Ice Shelf on the coast of Marie Byrd L…
Martin Glacier
Martin Glacier is a glacier, 3 nautical miles (6 km) wide and 9 nautical miles (17 km) long, which flows west and then northwest from the south side of Mount Lupa to the southeast corner of Rymill Bay where it joins Bertrand Ice Piedmont, on the wes…
Martello Tower (South Shetland Islands)
Martello Tower is a rock 10 metres (33 ft) high, lying in King George Bay 2 nautical miles (4 km) north-north-west of Lions Rump, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
Marble Rock (Antarctica)
Marble Rock is a rock outcrop at the edge of the ice cliff about 0.8 nautical miles (1.5 km) west-southwest of West Arm and Mawson Station, on the coast of Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. It was first plotted from air photos taken by the Lars Chris…
Marble Peak (Antarctica)
Marble Peak (85°29′S156°28′W) is a coastal peak, the twin of O'Brien Peak 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) to the southeast and almost the same height, overlooking the head of Ross Ice Shelf about midway between Amundsen and Scott Glaciers.
Manning Island
Manning Island is an island in the vicinity of Antarctica, at (69°21′18.0″S76°19′59.9″E). It was named after surveyor Graeme Manning, in honor of his work in Antarctica.
Magnet Bay
Magnet Bay is a shallow coastal indentation, 13 kilometres (7 nmi) wide and receding only 3.7 kilometres (2 nmi), located 17 kilometres (9 nmi) west of Cape Davis at the northwest side of Edward VIII Plateau in Antarctica.
MacKenzie Bay
MacKenzie Bay is a relatively small embayment of the western extremity of the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica, about 20 nautical miles (37 km) northeast of Foley Promontory. On February 10, 1931, the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Exp…
Mabus Point
Mabus Point is a point on the coast of Antarctica lying just south of the Haswell Islands, marking the eastern limit of McDonald Bay. It was first charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–14, under Douglas Mawson, and was recharted by …
Lynx Rocks
Lynx Rocks is a group of rocks in southwestern Hero Bay on the north side of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.