Gillock Island
Gillock Island is an ice-covered island, 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) long and 2 to 6 nautical miles (3.7 to 11.1 km; 2.3 to 6.9 mi) wide, with numerous rock outcrops exposed along its flanks.
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Gildea Glacier is a glacier 10 kilometres (6 mi) long and 5 kilometres (3 mi) wide flowing southwestward from Craddock Massif between Mount Slaughter and Mount Atkinson into Nimitz Glacier, in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctic…
Gilbert Glacier
Gilbert Glacier (70°0′S71°0′W) is a glacier about 20 nautical miles (37 km) long flowing south from Nichols Snowfield into Mozart Ice Piedmont, situated in northern Alexander Island, Antarctica.
Geologists Range
The Geologists Range is a mountain range about 55 km (34 mi) long, standing between the heads of Lucy and Nimrod Glaciers in Antarctica.
Gardner Inlet
Gardner Inlet (74°58′S62°52′W) is a large, ice-filled inlet at the southwest side of Bowman Peninsula, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, under Finn Ronne, who named …
Galicia Peak
Galicia Point (Bulgarian: връх Галисия, ‘Vrah Galicia’ 'vr&h ga-'li-si-ya; Spanish: Punta Galicia) is the peak rising to 4500 m in Vinson Massif, Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, and surmounting Jacobsen Valley to the east and Bran…
Gagarin Mountains
The Gagarin Mountains (Russian: Khrebet Yuriya Gagarina; Norwegian: Kurzefjella) are a linear group of mountains, trending in a north–south direction for 10 miles (16 km) between the Kurze Mountains and the Conrad Mountains of the Orvin Mountains in…
Gabriel Hill
Gabriel Hill is the summit of Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is a rocky hill rising to 101 m in the island’s northwest extremity and surmounting Moon Bay to the west and Menguante Cove to the southeast.
Gabbro Hills
The Gabbro Hills (84°42′S173°0′W) are a group of rugged ridges and coastal hills which border the Ross Ice Shelf between Barrett Glacier and Gough Glacier and extend south to Ropebrake Pass.
Fuller Rock
Fuller Rock is a rock awash, one of the principal dangers to ships on the north side of Faure Passage, Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, about 4.2 nautical miles (7.8 km) south-southwest of Dismal Island. It was charted by a Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey…
Friesland Ridge
Friesland Ridge (Hrebet Frisland \'hre-bet 'fris-land\) is a ridge on Livingston Island in the South Shetlands, part of the Tangra Mountains. The summit, Mount Friesland, which rises to 1,700 metres (5,600 ft), is the northwesternmost of the ridge’s…
Framnes Mountains
The Framnes Mountains are an Antarctic mountain range consisting of Casey Range, Masson Range, David Range, and Brown Range, and adjacent peaks and mountains. The three major ranges and other lesser features were sighted and named in February 1931 b…
Foundation Ice Stream
Foundation Ice Stream is a major ice stream in Antarctica's Pensacola Mountains. The ice stream drains northward for 150 miles (240 km) along the west side of the Patuxent Range and the Neptune Range to enter the Ronne Ice Shelf westward of Dufek Ma…
Fosdick Mountains
The Fosdick Mountains (76°32′S144°45′W) are an east–west trending mountain range with marked serrate outlines, standing along the south side of Balchen Glacier at the head of Block Bay, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They were d…
Fort William (Robert Island)
Fort William Point is the conspicuous flat-topped rocky headland forming the northwest extremity of Coppermine Peninsula and Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Forster Ice Piedmont
Forster Ice Piedmont (69°22′S67°0′W) is an ice piedmont lying landward of the Wordie Ice Shelf, along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Forrestal Range
The Forrestal Range (83°00′S049°30′W) is a largely snow-covered mountain range, about 105 km (65 mi) long, standing east of Dufek Massif and the Neptune Range in the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica. Discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956…
Ford Island (Windmill Islands)
Ford Island (66°24′S110°31′E) is a rocky Antarctic island, 2 km (1.2 mi) long, between O'Connor and Cloyd Islands in the southern part of the Windmill Islands. It was first mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump and Operation Windmi…
Flood Range
The Flood Range (76°03′S134°30′W) is an Antarctic range of large snow-covered mountains extending in an E-W direction for about 96 km (60 mi) and forming a right angle with the southern end of the Ames Range in Marie Byrd Land.
Fletcher Peninsula
Fletcher Peninsula is a broad ice-covered peninsula which extends into the Bellingshausen Sea between Abbot Ice Shelf and Venable Ice Shelf in Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 19…
Fletcher Islands
The Fletcher Islands are a small group of islands lying 9.7 km (6 mi) west-southwest (WSW) of Cape Gray in the eastern part of Commonwealth Bay. The Fletcher Islands are located at (66°53′S143°05′E). The Fletcher Islands were discovered by the Aust…
Fletcher Island
Fletcher Island is a rocky island, 0.4 km (0.25 mi) in diameter, which is the largest of the Fletcher Islands. Fletcher Island is located at (66°53′S143°05′E). Fletcher Island lies in the eastern part of Commonwealth Bay, 10 km (6 mi) west-southwes…
Flesa Rock
Flesa Rock is an isolated rock lying 7 nautical miles (13 km) east of the northeast end of the Borg Massif, in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
Fladerer Bay
Fladerer Bay is a bay about 28 kilometres (15 nmi) long and 11 kilometres (6 nmi) wide between Wirth Peninsula and Rydberg Peninsula in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S.
Firth of Tay (Antarctica)
Firth of Tay (63°22′S55°45′W) is a sound or firth, 12 miles (19 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) wide, extending in a northwest–southeast direction between the northeast side of Dundee Island and the east portion of Joinville Island. It merges to the n…
Filchner Mountains
The Filchner Mountains (German: Filchnerberge) are a group of mountains 7 miles (11 km) southwest of the Drygalski Mountains, at the western end of the Orvin Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. They were discovered by the Third German Antarcti…
Figueroa Point
Figueroa Point is an ice-free point at the northeast extremity of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the southeast side of the entrance to Galápagos Cove. Dovizio Rock (62°26′37.2″S59°43′17.7″W) is lying 190 metres (…
Fierro Point
Fierro Point is a point projecting 400 m into the south part of Discovery Bay from Parvomay Neck, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Ferguslie Peninsula
Ferguslie Peninsula is a peninsula 2.4 km (1.5 mi) long, lying between Browns Bay and Macdougal Bay on the north coast of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. Cape Geddes forms the tip of the peninsula.
Faure Islands
The Faure Islands (68° 06' S, 68° 52' W) are an archipelago west of Palmer Land in Antarctica.
Fallières Coast
The Fallières Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between the head of Bourgeois Fjord and Cape Jeremy and lies on Marguerite Bay and the Wordie Ice Shelf. On the south it is joined by Rymill Coast, and in the north by …
Explorers Cove
Explorers Cove is a cove at the northwest head of New Harbour, Victoria Land, Antarctica, on the west side of McMurdo Sound, where the Taylor Valley hits the seashore.
Ewing Island
Ewing Island (69°54′S61°13′W) is an ice-covered, dome-shaped island 13 km (8 mi) in diameter, lying 24 km (15 mi) northeast of Cape Collier, off the east coast of Palmer Land. It was discovered from the air on November 7, 1947 by the Ronne Antarcti…
Everett Range
Everett Range is a rugged, mainly ice-covered mountain range nearly 60 miles (97 km) long between Greenwell Glacier and Ebbe Glacier in northwest Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mountains of the range include Mount Regina (2,080 metres (6,820 ft)).
…Eternity Range
The Eternity Range is a range of mountains 28 miles (45 km) long, rising to 2,860 metres (9,380 ft), and trending north-south approximately in the middle of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Española Cove
Española Cove is an 1.2 km wide embayment indenting for 250 m the northwest coast of Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is part of South Bay entered between Ballester Point and Polish Bluff. The cove is u…