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  • Umber Island

    Umber Island (69°13′S72°0′W) is a rocky island, 2.4 km (1.5 miles) long, lying 10 km (6 miles) northwest of Dint Island lying within Lazarev Bay, off the west side of Alexander Island, Antarctica.

  • Ulu Peninsula

    Ulu Peninsula (63°56′S58°5′W) is that portion of James Ross Island northwest of the narrow neck of land between Rohss Bay and Croft Bay, extending from Cape Obelisk to Cape Lachman.

  • Ullmann Point

    Ullmann Point (62°5′S58°23′W) is a point marking the southwest end of Ullmann Spur in Martel Inlet, Admiralty Bay, on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. The point was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Charcot.

  • Ulendet Crevasses

    Ulendet Crevasses is a crevasse field about 7 miles (11 km) long in the Jutulstraumen Glacier, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Neumayer Cliffs in Queen Maud Land.

  • Ula Point

    Ula Point (64°5′S57°9′W) is a low ice-covered point on the northeast coast of James Ross Island, 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Cape Gage. First seen and roughly surveyed by Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskjold.

  • Uksen Island

    Uksen Island (67°21′S60°9′E) is a steep-sided, isolated island lying 4 miles (6 km) northeast of Tilley Nunatak, off the coast of Mac. Robertson Land.

  • Ugolini Peak

    Ugolini Peak (78°1′S161°31′E) is a sharp rock peak, over 2,200 m, surmounting the central part of a large ice-free massif 6 miles (10 km) south of Knobhead, at the south side of upper Ferrar Glacier in Victoria Land.

  • Ugarchin Point

    Ugarchin Point (Bulgarian: нос Угърчин, ‘Nos Ugarchin’ \'nos u-g&r-'chin\) is a point on the northeast coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting 300 m into Nelson Strait.

  • Ugain Point

    Ugain Point (Bulgarian: нос Угаин, ‘Nos Ugain’ \'nos u-ga-'in\) is the point on the west coast of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica separating Smyadovo Cove to the north and Bogomil Cove to the south.

  • Ufsekammen Ridge

    Ufsekammen Ridge (71°24′S13°14′E) is an arc-shaped rock ridge, 3 miles (4.8 km) long, between Mount Schicht and Ufsebrotet Bluff in the Gruber Mountains of the Wohlthat Mountains, Queen Maud Land.

  • Ufsebotnen Cirque

    Ufsebotnen Cirque is a cirque 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the summit of Mount Schicht in the Gruber Mountains of the Wohlthat Mountains, Queen Maud Land.

  • Ueda Glacier

    Ueda Glacier (75°15′S64°35′W) is a large glacier flowing eastward along the south side of the Scaife Mountains to enter Hansen Inlet near the base of Antarctic Peninsula. It was mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S.…

  • Tvarditsa Rocks

    Tvarditsa Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Твърдица, ‘Skali Tvarditsa’ ska-'li tv&r-'di-tsa) is a group of rocks off the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated 1.9 km (1.2 mi) northeast of Ongley Island, 1.3 km (0.…

  • Turnbull Point

    Turnbull Point is an exposed rocky point at the west extremity of D'Urville Island. Following surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1959–61, named after David H.

  • Tupinier Islands

    The Tupinier Islands are a group of pyramid-shaped islands lying off the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, about 6 km (3.7 mi) west of Cape Ducorps. They were discovered by the French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, 1837–40, and nam…

  • Tundzha Glacier

    Tundzha Glacier (Lednik Tundzha \'led-nik 'tun-dzha\) is a glacier on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated east-southeast of Berkovitsa Glacier, west of Saedinenie Snowfield, northwest of Pimpirev Glacier, north of Ka…

  • Tsarigrad Peak

    Tsarigrad Peak (Bulgarian: Връх Цариград, ‘Vrah Tsarigrad’ \'vr&h 'tsa-ri-grad\) is sharp ice-covered peak rising to 1760 m in Imeon Range, Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Tsamblak Hill

    Tsamblak Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Цамблак, ‘Halm Tsamblak’ \'h&lm 'tsam-blak\) is a rocky hill trending 900 m in north-south direction, 450 m wide and rising to 113 m in eastern Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarc…

  • Trundy Island

    Trundy Island is an island 0.4 nautical miles (0.7 km) west-northwest of Robbins Island in the west part of Joubin Islands. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for George B. Trundy, Able Seaman in the R.V.

  • Troyan Peak

    Troyan Peak (Vrah Troyan \'vr&h tro-'yan\) is a peak rising to 810 m in the Friesland Ridge of the Tangra Mountains in Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a steep snow free west slope and surmounts the Ruen Icefall to…

  • Trowbridge Island

    Trowbridge Island is an island lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northwest of Cape Melville in Destruction Bay, off the east coast of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands.

  • Tripp Island

    Tripp Island (76°38′S162°42′E) is an island in the south part of Tripp Bay along the coast of Victoria Land. Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09) which named this feature for Leonard O.H.

  • Tripp Bay

    Tripp Bay is a bay along the coast of Victoria Land formed by a recession in the ice between the Oates Piedmont Glacier and Evans Piedmont Glacier.

  • Tripod Island

    Tripod Island is a small island which lies close south of the west extremity of Eta Island and marks the north side of the western entrance to Andersen Harbor in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago.

  • Trilling Peaks

    Trilling Peaks is a group of linear nunataks: the three main peaks standing three miles south of South Masson Range in the Framnes Mountains, Mac. Robertson Land.

  • Trigrad Gap

    Trigrad Gap (Trigradska Sedlovina \tri-'grad-ska se-dlo-vi-'na\) is a saddle of 500 m height in the Delchev Ridge in the Tangra Mountains of eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The gap is bounded to the southwest by …

  • Tran Crag

    Tran Crag (Transki Kamak \'tr&n-ski 'ka-m&k\) rises to 490 m in the Tangra Mountains of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and projects from the tributary glacier draining the west slopes of Friesland Ridge between St. Boris…

  • Trajan Gate

    Trajan Gate (Bulgarian: Траянови врата, ‘Trayanovi Vrata’ \tra-'ya-no-vi vra-'ta\) is the flat saddle of elevation ca. 850 m extending 4.3 km on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, which is situated between Malorad Glacier to the north and a Rus…

  • Trachyte Hill

    Trachyte Hill is a prominent hill, 470 m, just south of Shell Glacier in the center of the ice-free area on the lower west slopes of Mount Bird on Ross Island.

  • Tot Pond

    Tot Pond is the smaller and western of two closely spaced frozen ponds in the floor of Alatna Valley, filled by overflow from the larger adjacent Rum Pond, in the Convoy Range, Victoria Land.

  • Torlyn Mountain

    Torlyn Mountain (67°47′S66°55′E) is an elongated mountain, of which Murray Monolith is the detached front, standing 4 miles (6 km) east of Scullin Monolith on the coast of Mac.

  • Tongue Peak

    Tongue Peak is a peak rising to about 2,450 m between Holdsworth Glacier and Scott Glacier, 3 nautical miles (6 km) west-northwest of Mount Farley, in the Queen Maud Mountains. The peak was mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surve…

  • Tokarev Island

    Tokarev Island is one of the small islands in the Haswell Islands, lying 0.1 nautical miles (0.2 km) west of Gorev Island. Discovered and first mapped by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–14) under Douglas Mawson. Photographed by the Sovie…