Denman Glacier is a glacier 7 to 10 miles (11 to 16 km) wide, descending north some 70 miles (110 km), which debouches into the Shackleton Ice Shelf east of David Island, Queen Mary Land. It was discovered in November 1912 by the Western Base party …
The Dellbridge Islands are a group of four islands lying in the Antarctic, just south of Cape Evans and Ross Island.
Delchev Ridge (Delchev Hrebet \'del-chev 'hre-bet\) is the eastern ridge of the Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island extending 10 km east-northeastward from Devin Saddle to Renier Point. The ridge is named in association with its summit Delchev Peak …
The Deep Freeze Range (74°15′S163°45′E) is a rugged mountain range, over 128 km (80 mi) long and about 16 km (10 mi) wide, rising between Priestley and Campbell glaciers in Victoria Land, Antarctica, and extending from the edge of the polar plateau…
Dee Island is the ice-free island lying between Greenwich Island and Aitcho Islands in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and is separated from Greenwich Island to the south by the 850 m (930 yd) wide Orión Passage (62°26′17″S59°47′45″W) and fr…
Decazes Island (66°26′S67°20′W) is an island 0.8 km (0.5 mi) long, lying 2.4 km (1.5 mi) southwest of Belding Island at the southwestern extremity of the Biscoe Islands. The island is one of the largest of many small islets and rocks that fringe th…
The Debenham Islands are a group of islands and rocks lying between Millerand Island and the west coast of Graham Land. The Debenham Islands were discovered and named by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) (1934–37) under John Riddoch Rymill; …
The Debelt Glacier (Lednik Debelt \'led-nik 'de-belt\) on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is situated southeast of Rose Valley Glacier and northeast of Panega Glacier. It drains the southeastern slopes of…
DeLaca Island is a small U-shaped island 1.3 km (0.8 mi) west of Bonaparte Point, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island. DeLaca Island is located at (64°47′S64°07′W). DeLaca Island is one of two main investigation areas in a United States Antarc…
Davis Island is an island about 3 km (2 mi) long, situated in a position which blocks much of the channel between Brabant Island and Liège Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
Dalsnatten Crag is a rock crag on the east side of Skarsdalen Valley in the Sverdrup Mountains of Queen Maud Land. It was photographed from the air by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–39).
Cutler Stack is a sea stack extending 170 by 150 m (186 by 164 yd) and rising to 16 m (52 ft), lying off Nedelya Point in the south of Barclay Bay, western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Crosson Ice Shelf (74°57′S109°30′W) is an Antarctic ice shelf, about 35 miles (56 km) wide, north and northeast of Mount Murphy along the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land. The ice shelf is nurtured by Smith, Pope, Vane, and Haynes Glaciers. It was…
Crisscross Crags are an irregularly shaped system of crags with arms extending in four directions, rising to 650 metres (2,130 ft) east of Rum Cove in James Ross Island.
Crilly Hill is the central of three ice-free hills at the north side of McGregor Glacier, 6 nautical miles (11 km) south-southwest of Mount Finley, in the Queen Maud Mountains. It was named by the Texas Tech Shackleton Glacier Expedition (1964–65) f…
Crary Mountains (76°48′S117°40′W) is a group of ice-covered Antarctic mountains, 56 km (35 mi) long, rising to 3,655 m at Mount Frakes and including Mount Rees, Mount Steere and Boyd Ridge.
Crane Glacier (65°20′S62°15′W), is a narrow glacier which flows 30 miles (50 km) in an east-northeasterly direction along the northwest side of Aristotle Mountains to enter Spillane Fjord south of Devetaki Peak, on the east coast of the Antarctic P…
Craddock Massif is a mountain massif in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, in the Chilean claim of West Antarctica.
Cormorant Island is a 10 ha island lying in Bismarck Strait 1 km south of Anvers Island, 4 km (2.5 mi) east-south-east of Bonaparte Point, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It lies some 5 km to the south-east of the United States' Palmer Stat…
Coral Hill is a peak in Antarctica, rising to about 850 metres (2,800 ft) 0.5 miles (0.8 km) east of Auger Hill in the Keble Hills of the Scott Coast, Victoria Land.
Coppermine Peninsula is the 1.7 km long, 500 m wide and rising to 105 m rugged rocky promontory forming the northwest extremity of Alfatar Peninsula and Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and lying between English Strait to the …
Cook Ice Shelf is an ice shelf about 55 miles (90 km) wide, occupying a deep recession of the coastline between Cape Freshfield and Cape Hudson, to the east of Deakin Bay.
The New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956–58) worked in this area in 1957. The range was named by them after the main convoy into McMurdo Sound in the 1956–57 season, the names of the various vessels …
The Conrad Mountains (German: Conradgebirge, Norwegian: Conradfjella) are a narrow chain of mountains, 19 miles (31 km) long, located between the Gagarin Mountains and Mount Dallmann in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. The Conrad Mountains are a subrang…
The Concord Mountains is a group name applied to a complex system of mountain ranges in northwest Victoria Land, Antarctica, comprising the Everett Range, Mirabito Range, King Range, Leitch Massif, East Quartzite Range and West Quartzite Range.
Commonwealth Glacier is a glacier which flows in a southeasterly direction and enters the northern side of Taylor Valley immediately west of Mount Coleman, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Collins Harbour (62°11′S58°51′W) is a bay indenting the south coast of King George Island immediately east of Fildes Peninsula, in the South Shetland Islands.
Collins Glacier (73°41′S65°55′E) is a glacier about 11 nautical miles (20 km) wide at its confluence with the Mellor Glacier, which it feeds from the southwest, located north of Mount Newton in the Prince Charles Mountains of Antarctica.
Cockburn Island is an oval island 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) long, consisting of a high plateau with steep slopes surmounted on the northwest side by a pyramidal peak 450 m (1,476 ft) high, lying in the north-east entrance to Admiralty Sound, south of …
Cobalescou Island or Cobălcescu Island is a small snow-free island with two rounded summits, lying 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) east-southeast of Veyka Point, the south extremity of Two Hummock Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
Clark Peninsula is a rocky peninsula, about 3 km (2 mi) long and wide, lying 5 km north-east of Australia's Casey Station at the north side of Newcomb Bay on the Budd Coast of Wilkes Land in Antarctica.
The Churchill Mountains is a mountain range bordering the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier in Antarctica.
Chuprene Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Чупрене, ‘Lednik Chuprene’ \'led-nik chu-'pre-ne\) is a 4 km long glacier draining the northwest slopes of Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated northeast of Bistra …
Chumerna Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Чумерна, ‘Lednik Chumerna’ \'led-nik chu-'mer-na\) is the 2.2 km long and 1.9 km wide glacier on the north coast of Albena Peninsula on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica flowing northeastwards t…
Christensen Glacier is a glacier which flows to the south coast of Bouvet Island (Bouvetøya), 1 nautical mile (2 km) east of Cato Point. It was first charted in 1898 by a German expedition under Karl Chun, and recharted in December 1927 by a Norwegi…
Cheu Valley is a narrow, north-south trending valley in the Cumulus Hills, about 3 nautical miles (6 km) long, with its north end opening at the south side of McGregor Glacier, just west of the mouth of Gatlin Glacier. It was named by the Texas Tech…