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  • Independence Hills

    The Independence Hills (80°25′S81°33′W) are a line of rugged hills and peaks, 10 miles (16 km) long, with mainly bare rock eastern slopes. They lie 3 miles (5 km) southeast of the Marble Hills and form the southern segment of the west wall of Horse…

  • Inan Peak

    Inan Peak (78°20′S162°38′E) is a peak rising to 2,451 metres (8,041 ft) 1.15 miles (1.85 km) west of Mount Kempe in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

  • Ilinden Peak

    Ilinden Peak (Vrah Ilinden \'vr&h 'i-lin-den\) is an ice-covered peak rising to 620 m in Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island, Antarctica.

  • Il Polo Glacier

    Il Polo Glacier (69°50′S74°54′E) is a small glacier draining northward between Polar Times Glacier and Polarforschung Glacier into the Publications Ice Shelf, Antarctica. It was delineated in 1952 by John H. Roscoe from air photos taken by U.S.

  • Idun Peak

    Idun Peak (77°38′30″S161°24′32″E) is a small peak between Mount Thundergut and Veli Peak in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

  • Iceport

    An iceport is a more-or-less permanent indentation in the front of an ice shelf, that can serve as a natural ice harbor.

  • Icefall Nunatak

    Icefall Nunatak (78°18′S158°38′E) is a prominent ice-free nunatak, 1,760 metres (5,770 ft) high, lying close south of the main flow of the Skelton Icefalls in Antarctica.

  • Ice Tower Ridge

    Ice Tower Ridge (77°32′S167°7′E) is a ridge at about 3,540 metres (11,600 ft) that descends the southwestern slope of the summit crater of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica.

  • Ibar Rocks

    The Ibar Rocks are two rocks located 0.2 miles (0.3 km) east of Bonert Rock and 0.6 miles (1 km) southeast of Canto Point, Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The names "Islote Ibar" and "Islote Teniente Ibar" appearing on Chilean hydro…

  • Iapetus Nunatak

    Iapetus Nunatak (71°36′S70°15′W) is an isolated nunatak at the southwest margin of Satellite Snowfield, about midway between the Walton Mountains and the Staccato Peaks in southern Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Directorate of O…

  • Huron Glacier

    Huron Glacier is a 7.7-kilometre (4.8 mi) long and 3.5-kilometre (2.2 mi) wide glacial flow on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, situated east of Perunika Glacier, southeast of Kaliakra Glacier, south of Struma Glacier, …

  • Hurd Peninsula

    Hurd Peninsula lies between South Bay and False Bay on the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The Spanish Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base and the Bulgarian St.

  • Huntress Glacier

    Huntress Glacier is a glacier 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) long and 3.7 kilometres (2.3 mi) wide flowing into the head of False Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Humble Island

    Humble Island is a small rocky island lying 0.6 km (0.37 mi) south-east of Norsel Point in Arthur Harbour, off the south-west coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.

  • Holmes Rock

    Holmes Rock is rising to 45 m (49 yd) north of Greenwich Island and west of Aitcho group in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Holme Bay

    Holme Bay is a bay in Antarctica by Mac. Robertson Land, 22 miles (35 km) wide, containing many islands, indenting the coast 5 miles (8 km) north of the Framnes Mountains.

  • Hollick-Kenyon Plateau

    Hollick-Kenyon Plateau (78°S105°W) is a large, relatively featureless snow plateau in Antarctica, 1,200 to 1,800 metres (4,000 to 6,000 ft) above sea level, located between the northern portion of the Ellsworth Mountains, to the east, and Mount Tak…

  • Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula

    Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula or Kenyon Peninsula (68°35′S63°50′W) is an ice-covered spur from the main mountain mass of the Antarctic Peninsula, projecting over 40 nautical miles (70 km) in a northeasterly arc from its base between Mobiloil Inlet and C…

  • Herbert Range

    The Herbert Range is a mountain range in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, extending from the edge of the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Axel Heiberg and Strom glaciers.

  • Herbert Mountains

    The Herbert Mountains (80°20′S25°30′W) are a conspicuous group of rock summits on the east side of Gordon Glacier in the Shackleton Range of Antarctica. They were first mapped in 1957 by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (and named for Si…

  • Henderson Island (Shackleton Ice Shelf)

    Henderson Island is an ice-covered island 9 miles (14 km) long and rising to 240 m (787 ft), lying 9 miles (14 km) southeast of Masson Island within the Shackleton Ice Shelf. Henderson Island is located at (66°22′S97°10′E). Henderson Island was dis…

  • Hayes Peak

    Hayes Peak is a conical peak in Antarctica, that reaches 340 metres (1,120 ft) high, rising through the ice slopes 2 nautical miles (4 km) south of Cape Bruce and Oom Bay.

  • Hayes Glacier

    Hayes Glacier in Antarctica enters the southeast part of the Weddell Sea about 17 miles (27 km) west-southwest of Dawson-Lambton Glacier. It was discovered in the course of a U.S. Navy LC-130 plane flight over the Caird Coast on November 5, 1967, an…

  • Hauberg Mountains

    The Hauberg Mountains (75°52′S069°15′W) are a group of mountains of about 56 kilometres (35 mi) extent, located 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of Cape Zumberge and 48 kilometres (30 mi) south of the Sweeney Mountains in Palmer Land, Antarctica.

  • Haskovo Cove

    Haskovo Cove (Zaliv Haskovo \'za-liv 'ha-sko-vo\) is a 2.1 km wide cove indenting for 1 km the northern coast of Greenwich Island between Aprilov Point and Miletich Point in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated next east of Crutch Peaks,…

  • Hammond Glacier

    Hammond Glacier is located on the northeast side of the Haines Mountains, flowing northwest for about 40 nautical miles (70 km) to Sulzberger Ice Shelf in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was discovered in 1934 by the Byrd Antarcti…

  • Habermehl Peak

    Habermehl Peak (German: Habermehlgipfel, (71°49′S6°55′E) is a peak 2,945 metres (9,660 ft) high, 3 miles (5 km) south of Gessner Peak in the northeast part of the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the Thi…

  • Haag Nunataks

    The Haag Nunataks (77°0′S78°18′W) in Antarctica are a group of three low elevations aligned nearly north-south. The dominant central nunatak and the southern elevation have definite rock exposures; the minor northern elevation may be entirely snow …

  • Gurev Gap

    Gurev Gap (Gureva Sedlovina \'gu-re-va se-dlo-vi-'na\) is a flat ice-covered saddle of elevation 450 m extending 3 km in south-north direction between Hemus Peak and Gleaner Heights in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarct…

  • Grove Mountains

    The Grove Mountains are a large, scattered group of mountains and nunataks extending over an area of approximately 40 by 20 miles (60 by 30 km), located 100 miles (160 km) east of the Mawson Escarpment in American Highland, Antarctica. They were fir…

  • Glavinitsa Peak

    Glavinitsa Peak (Bulgarian: връх Главиница, ‘Vrah Glavinitsa’ \'vr&h gla-'vi-ni-tsa\) is the peak rising to 1500 m in the central part of Rudozem Heights on German Peninsula, Fallières Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica.

  • Glasgal Island

    Glasgal Island is a small island which marks the southwestern extremity of the Donovan Islands in Vincennes Bay, off the coast of Antarctica. It was first mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and observed in 1957 by…

  • Ginger Islands

    The Ginger Islands are a group of islands lying west of Cape Alexandra, off the southern end of Adelaide Island, Antarctica. The largest of the islands appears reddish when free of snow.