List of rivers of Antarctica
This is a list of rivers of Antarctica. Although they are variously named river, creek or stream, those listed are technically all meltwater streams.
Articles in Antarctica ( 3,853 )
3,853 Articles of interest in Antarctica
Click on them to get its location and coordinatesByrd Station
Byrd Station refers to a research station established by the United States during the International Geophysical Year by the U.S. Navy during Operation Deep Freeze II in West Antarctica at 80°S, 120°W (now located at 80°S, 119°W, 1553 m elevation). A…
Mount McClintock
Mount McClintock is the highest mountain (3,492 m / 11,456 ft) in the Britannia Range in Australian Antarctic Territory, surmounting the south end of Forbes Ridge, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Mount Olympus. It is also higher than all other peaks …
Jerauld Wright
Admiral Jerauld Wright, USN, (June 4, 1898 – April 27, 1995) served as the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command (CINCLANT) and the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S.
Ice Runway
The Ice Runway (ICAO: NZIR) is the principal runway for the US Antarctic Program during the summer Antarctic field season due to its proximity to McMurdo Station. The other two runways in the area are the snow runway at Williams Field (ICAO: NZWD) a…
Beardmore Glacier
The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being 200 km (125 mi) long and having a width of 40 km (25 mi).
Ernest Joyce
Ernest Edward Mills Joyce AM (ca. 1875 – 2 May 1940) was a Royal Naval seaman and explorer who participated in four Antarctic expeditions during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, early in the early 20th century. He served under both Robert Fa…
Captain Arturo Prat Base
Captain Arturo Prat Base is a Chilean Antarctic research station located at Iquique Cove, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Berkner Island
Berkner Island or Berkner Ice Rise or Hubley Island is an ice rise, where bedrock below sea level makes the ice dome upward. If the ice cap melted, it would be under water. Berkner "Island" is high and completely ice-covered and about 320 kilometres…
Wilkins Runway
Wilkins Runway is a single runway aerodrome operated by Australia, located on upper Peterson Glacier, Budd Coast, Wilkes Land on the continent of Antarctica, but 40 km (25 mi) southeast of the actual coast.
Vernadsky Research Base
Vernadsky Research Base (Ukrainian: Академік Вернадський) is a Ukrainian Antarctic Station at Marina Point on Galindez Island in the Argentine Islands, Antarctica.
Williams Field
Williams Field or Willy Field (ICAO: NZWD) is a United States Antarctic Program airfield in Antarctica. Williams Field consists of two snow runways located on approximately 8 meters (25 ft) of compacted snow, lying on top of 80 meters (262 ft) of ic…
Lake Fryxell
Lake Fryxell is a frozen lake 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) long, between Canada Glacier and Commonwealth Glaciers at the lower end of Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott, 1910–1…
James Ross Island
James Ross Island is a large island off the southeast side and near the northeastern extremity of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Prince Gustav Channel. Rising to 1,630 metres (5,350 ft), it is irregularly shaped and extends 4…
Showa Station (Antarctica)
Showa Station (昭和基地 Shōwa Kichi), also sometimes spelled Syowa, is a Japanese research station on East Ongul Island in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
Framheim
Framheim was the name of explorer Roald Amundsen's base at the Bay of Whales on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica during his quest for the South Pole.
Novolazarevskaya Station
Novolazarevskaya Station (Russian: Станция Новолазаревская) is a Russian, formerly Soviet, Antarctic research station. The station is located at Schirmacher Oasis, Queen Maud Land, 75 km from the Antarctic coast, from which it is separated by Lazare…
Jameson Adams
Sir Jameson Adams (1880–1962) was an Antarctic explorer with the Nimrod Expedition, the first expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in an unsuccessful attempt to reach the South Pole. Nevertheless, he was one of the party of four who reached the Polar…
International Game Fish Association
The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) is the leading authority on angling pursuits and the keeper of the most current World Record fishing catches by fish categories. Fishermen who are sport fishers are careful to follow their stringent rul…
Antarctic field camps
Many Antarctic research stations support satellite field camps which are, in general, seasonal camps. The type of field camp can vary – some are permanent structures used during the annual Antarctic summer, whereas others are little more than tents …
Planum Australe
Planum Australe (Latin: "the southern plain") is the southern polar plain on Mars. It extends southward of roughly 75°S and is centered at (83.9°S 160.0°E).
Half Moon Island
Half Moon Island is a minor Antarctic island, lying 1.35 km (0.84 mi) north of Burgas Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 171 hectares (420 acres). The Argentine Cámara Ba…
Ellsworth Mountains
The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a 360 km (224 mi) long and 48 km (30 mi) wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf. They are bisected by Minn…
Canada Glacier
Canada Glacier is a small glacier flowing south-east into the northern side of Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme
Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, also Base Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, or shortly Bernardo O'Higgins, named after Bernardo O'Higgins is a permanently staffed Chilean research station in Antarctica and the capital of Antá…
Schirmacher Oasis
The Schirmacher Oasis (or Schirmacher Lake Plateau) is a 25 km long and up to 3 km wide ice-free plateau with more than 100 freshwater lakes. It is situated in the Schirmacher Hills on the Princess Astrid Coast in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica,…
Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, located on Utsteinen Nunatak in Queen Maud Land (71.949960°S 23.347503°E), is a Belgian scientific polar research station, which went into service on February 15, 2009. The station, designed, built and operated by the …
Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station
Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station (Polish:Polska Stacja Antarktyczna im.
Extreme points of the Antarctic
This is a list of the extreme points of the Antarctic, the points of Antarctic and subantarctic lands that are farther to the south than any other location classified by continent and country. Geographical position and distance to the South Pole.
Eric Marshall
Eric Stewart Marshall (1879–1963) was an Antarctic explorer with the Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in 1907-09, and was one of the party of four men (Marshall, Shackleton, Jameson Adams and Frank Wild) who reached Furthest South at (88°2…
Enderby Land
Enderby Land is a projecting land mass of Antarctica, extending from Shinnan Glacier at about (67°55′S44°38′E) to William Scoresby Bay at (67°24′S59°34′E)
Lake Vida
Lake Vida is a hypersaline lake in Victoria Valley, the northernmost of the large McMurdo Dry Valleys, on the continent of Antarctica. It is isolated under year-round ice cover, and is considerably more saline than seawater.
Commonwealth Bay
Commonwealth Bay is an open bay about 48 km (30 mi) wide at the entrance between Point Alden and Cape Gray in Antarctica. It was discovered in 1912 by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, who established the main base of the e…
Zucchelli Station
Zucchelli Station is an Italian permanent research station located at Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica and named after Mario Zucchelli, late director of the Italian Antarctic Program. This facility hosts a variety of scientific projects.
St. Kliment Ohridski Base
St. Kliment Ohridski Base (Bulgarian: База св. Климент Охридски, Baza Sv.
Snow Hill Island
Snow Hill Island is an almost completely snowcapped island, 33 km (21 mi) long and 12 km (7.5 mi) wide, lying off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is separated from James Ross Island to the north-east by Admiralty Sound.
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