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  • Chavdar Peninsula

    Chavdar Peninsula (Poluostrov Chavdar \po-lu-'os-trov chav-'dar\) is a 10-km wide peninsula projecting 13 km in northwest direction from Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. It is bounded by Curtiss Bay to the northeast, Hughes Bay …

  • Charybdis Cove

    Charybdis Cove is the 1.2 km wide cove indenting for 580 m the northwest coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and entered between Organpipe Point to the north and Slab Point to the south.

  • Charlotte Bay

    Charlotte Bay is a bay on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula indenting the west coast of Graham Land in a southeast direction for 12 nautical miles (22 km), between Reclus Peninsula and Cape Murray.

  • Chapman Rocks

    Chapman Rocks is a group of rocks in central Hero Bay on the north side of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Cetus Hill

    Cetus Hill is a large ice-covered mound which comes to a point with three jagged rock peaks at its west end. It is located at the head of Ryder Glacier in western Palmer Land, about 27 nautical miles (50 km) east-northeast of Gurney Point.

  • Catharina Point

    Catharina Point, also Varoli Point, is a rocky point projecting 1.5 km northwards into Drake Passage to form the north extremity of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and the northeast side of the entrance to Nevestino Cove.

  • Castle Peak (Antarctica)

    Castle Peak (67°0′S65°53′W) is a prominent ice-covered peak, 2,380 metres (7,800 ft) high, standing immediately south of Murphy Glacier and close off the west side of Avery Plateau in Graham Land. It is shaped like a truncated cone with a rounded s…

  • Castillo Nunatak

    Castillo Nunatak is a conspicuous rocky peak rising to 437 m on the glacial divide between Huntress Glacier and Balkan Snowfield on Hurd Peninsula in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is linked to Charrúa Ridge …

  • Carlson Inlet

    Carlson Inlet (78°0′S78°30′W) is an ice-filled inlet, 100 miles (160 km) long and 25 miles (40 km) wide, lying between Fletcher Ice Rise and Fowler Ice Rise in the southwest part of the Ronne Ice Shelf. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Ant…

  • Cape Roberts Project

    Between 1997 and 1999 the international Cape Roberts Project (CRP) has recovered up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft) long drill cores in the Ross Sea, Antarctica to reconstruct the glaciation history of Antarctica. Scientists from various institutes in seven c…

  • Cape Morse

    Cape Morse (66°15′S130°10′E) is a low, ice-covered cape which marks the east side of the entrance to Porpoise Bay and forms the division between Banzare Coast and Clarie Coast in Wilkes Land, Antarctica. It was delineated from air photos taken by U…

  • Cape Knowles

    Cape Knowles (71°48′S60°50′W) is a cape rising to 305 metres (1,000 ft), marking the northern side of the entrance to Hilton Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by members of East Base of the U.S. Antarctic Servic…

  • Cape Hooker (South Shetland Islands)

    Cape Hooker is the south-eastern point of Low Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The feature was roughly charted by nineteenth century sealers; it was further charted by Commander Henry Foster in 1829 but shown as the north-eastern…

  • Cape Goodenough

    Cape Goodenough (66°16′S126°10′E) is an ice-covered cape marking the west side of the entrance to Porpoise Bay and forming the northernmost projection of Norths Highland in Antarctica.

  • Cape Flying Fish

    Cape Flying Fish (72°3′S102°20′W) is an ice-covered cape which forms the western extremity of Thurston Island. It was discovered by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and members of the US Antarctic Service in a flight from the Bear in February 1940. It …

  • Cape Découverte

    Cape Découverte or Cape Discovery (66°46′S141°33′E) is the point of rocks which marks the northwest extremity of the Curzon Islands along the Adélie Coast. It was discovered on January 21, 1840 by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1837–40, under Cap…

  • Cape Dart

    Cape Dart (73°7′S126°9′W) is a cape at the foot of Mount Siple on the north coast of Siple Island, just southward of Lauff Island off the Bakutis Coast, Marie Byrd Land.

  • Cape Conway

    Cape Conway is the rounded low and ice-free tipped cape forming the south extremity of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is a south entrance point for Boyd Strait. Tooth Rock (62°51′32.4″S61°25′33.9″W) rising to 85 m (279 ft…

  • Cape Colbeck

    Cape Colbeck (77°7′S158°1′W) is a prominent ice-covered cape which forms the northwestern extremity of the Edward VII Peninsula and Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica.

  • Cape Buromskiy

    Cape Buromskiy is the northern point of the Krylov Peninsula. It was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in 1947, and mapped from air photos taken by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition of 1958. It was named by the latter after a m…

  • Cape Burks

    Cape Burks is a prominent rock cape, the northwestern seaward extension of McDonald Heights, marking the east side of the entrance of Hull Bay on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. The cape was sighted and mapped from the USS Glacier, January 31, 1962, a…

  • Cape Boothby

    Cape Boothby (66°34′S57°16′E) in East Antarctica is a rounded cape along the east side of the coastal projection of Edward VIII Plateau. It is situated 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Kloa Point, just north of Edward VIII Bay. It was discovered on 28 Feb…

  • Cape Adriasola

    Cape Adriasola (67°39′S69°11′W) is a distinctive ice-cliffed cape at the southwest end of Adelaide Island, 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Avian Island.

  • Canetti Peak

    Canetti Peak (Vrah Kaneti \'vr&h ka-'ne-ti\) is a 400 m peak in the Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak has precipitous and ice-free western slopes and overlooks Zagore Bea…

  • Camp Byers

    Camp Byers (Spanish: Campamento Byers) is a Spanish seasonal base camp on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Byrd Head

    Byrd Head is a conspicuous, rocky headland on the Mawson Coast 1 mi southeast of Colbeck Archipelago, just west of Howard Bay. Discovered in February 1931 by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Dougla…

  • Byewater Point

    Byewater Point is the rocky point forming the northwest extremity of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is a north entrance point for Boyd Strait.

  • Brunow Bay

    Brunow Bay is a 2.33 km wide bay indenting for 1.5 km the southeast side of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Browns Bay (South Orkney Islands)

    Browns Bay is a bay 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide, entered between Thomson Point and Cape Geddes along the north coast of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands. Charted in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under Bruce, who named it f…

  • Breznik Heights

    Breznik Heights (Breznishki Vazvisheniya \'brez-nish-ki v&-zvi-'she-ni-ya\) rises to over 600 m in the southeast part of Greenwich Island. They extend 12 km between Santa Cruz Point in the northeast and the base of the moraine spit of Provadiya Hook…

  • Bratsigovo Hills

    Bratsigovo Hills (Bulgarian: Брациговски хълмове, ‘Bratsigovski Halmove’ \bra-'tsi-gov-ski 'h&l-mo-ve\) is the chain of rocky hills rising to over 300 m on the southeast side of Cugnot Ice Piedmont and extending from the coast of Prince Gustav Chann…

  • Bratina Lagoon

    Bratina Lagoon is a tidal lagoon of sand flats, ponds, and channels, about 700 metres (770 yd) long and 250 metres (270 yd) wide, located on the southwest side of Bratina Island, which lies off the northern tip of Brown Peninsula, Ross Ice Shelf.

  • Branscomb Glacier

    The Branscomb Glacier (78°32′S86°05′W) is an Antarctic glacier, 9.5 km (6 mi) long, flowing west from the north-west side of Vinson Massif (the highest point in Antarctica) into Nimitz Glacier, in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains.