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  • Shambles Glacier

    Shambles Glacier (67°20′S68°13′W) is a steep glacier 4 miles (6 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) wide, with very prominent hummocks and crevasses, flowing east between Mount Bouvier and Mount Mangin into Stonehouse Bay on the east side of Adelaide Isla…

  • Shackleton Coast

    Shackleton Coast is that portion of the coast along the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf between Cape Selborne and Airdrop Peak at the east side of Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1961…

  • Shabtaie Ice Ridge

    Shabtaie Ice Ridge (80°30′S140°0′W) is an ice ridge between MacAyeal Ice Stream and Bindschadler Ice Stream at the junction of Shirase Coast and Siple Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Sion Shabt…

  • Shabla Knoll

    Shabla Knoll (Vrah Shabla \'vr&h 'sha-bla\) rises to over 400 m (1,312 ft) in Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Sopot Ice Piedmont to the north and Pautalia Glacier to the southw…

  • Shabica Glacier

    Shabica Glacier (70°21′S62°45′W) is a northern tributary glacier to the Clifford Glacier, joining it near its terminus just east of Mount Tenniel, in Palmer Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1974. Named by Advisory Committee…

  • Sevar Point

    Sevar Point (Bulgarian: нос Севар, ‘Nos Sevar’ \'nos se-'var\) is a point on the south coast of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated 1.9 km east-southeast of Devils Point, 2.71 km west of Nikopol Po…

  • Sestrimo Glacier

    Sestrimo Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Сестримо, ‘Lednik Sestrimo’ \'led-nik 'se-stri-mo\) is the 11 km long and 4 km wide glacier on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated southwest of Ogoya Glacier…

  • Serrano Point

    Serrano Point is an ice-free point on the northwest coast of Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica named by the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition after First Lieutenant Fernando Serrano, doctor on the expedition f…

  • Senokos Nunatak

    Senokos Nunatak (Bulgarian: нунатак Сенокос, ‘Nunatak Senokos’ \'nu-na-tak se-no-'kos\) is the rocky hill rising to 663 m in Dreatin Glacier on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.

  • Seaton Glacier

    Seaton Glacier (66°43′S56°26′E) is a glacier 17 miles (27 km) long, flowing southeast into Edward VIII Ice Shelf at the northwest part of Edward VIII Bay. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Exp…

  • Seal Bay (Antarctica)

    Seal Bay (Norwegian: Selbukta) is a bay which indents the northeastern end of Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf just southward of Cape Norvegia, on the coast of Queen Maud Land. It was discovered in 1930 by Capt.

  • Sea Lion Glacier

    Sea Lion Glacier (Lednik Morski Lav \'led-nik 'mor-ski 'l&v\) is the site of an isolated 350 metres (1,150 ft) long glacier on Hurd Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Scudder Peak

    Scudder Peak is a small rock peak just southwest of Spitz Ridge on the south side of Toney Mountain, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-66. Named by Advisory Committee…

  • Schweitzer Glacier

    Schweitzer Glacier (German: Schweitzergeletscher, (77°50′S34°40′W) is a glacier which drains west along the north side of Littlewood Nunataks into Vahsel Bay. The Lerchenfeld Glacier, trending west-northwestward, coalesces with the lower portion of…

  • Schwartz Range

    Schwartz Range (67°8′S55°38′E) is a range of mountains trending in a NE-SW direction, standing 17 miles southwest of Edward VIII Bay, in Antarctica. It was discovered in November 1954 by R. Dovers and Georges Schwartz during an ANARE (Australian Na…

  • Schwartz Peak

    Schwartz Peak is a rock peak 15 nautical miles (28 km) east-southeast of FitzGerald Bluffs in Palmer Land. The peak is one in a chain of small summits lying southeastward of the bluffs and is the dominant feature near the center of the group. It was…

  • Schanz Glacier

    Schanz Glacier is a glacier 8 nautical miles (15 km) long in the Heritage Range, draining south between Soholt Peaks and Collier Hills to enter Union Glacier. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 19…

  • Scesa Point

    Scesa Point is a rounded, low ice-free tipped point on the west coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the north side of the entrance to Zornitsa Cove.

  • Sayer Nunatak

    Sayer Nunatak is a rocky peak rising to 210 m south of Williams Point on Varna Peninsula, at the north edge of the ice cap of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Savoia Peak

    Savoia Peak is a peak, 1,415 m, at the northeast end of Sierra DuFief, a mountain range in the southwest part of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.

  • Saunders Rock

    Saunders Rock is a rock 3 nautical miles (6 km) northwest of Feeley Peak, between Davisville and Quonset Glaciers on the north side of Wisconsin Range. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-64. …

  • Sartorius Point

    Sartorius Point is a sharp ice-free tipped point formed by an offshoot of Viskyar Ridge and marking the south extremity of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point separates the termini of Zheravna Glacier to the west an…

  • Saparevo Glacier

    Saparevo Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Сапарево, ‘Lednik Saparevo’ \'led-nik sa-pa-'re-vo\) is an 1.8 km long and 2 km wide glacier draining the northwest slopes of Imeon Range on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated northea…

  • Santa Cruz Point

    Santa Cruz Point, also Spencer Bluff, is a rocky point forming the east extremity of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and the southwest side of the entrance to English Strait.

  • Sansom Islands

    The Sansom Islands are two low rock islands in Sandefjord Bay, about 24 kilometres (15 mi) WNW of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936–37) and called Knattskj…

  • Sandercock Nunataks

    Sandercock Nunataks (68°32′S52°4′E) is an isolated group of nunataks about 45 miles eastsoutheast of the Nye Mountains in Enderby Land. They were discovered and visited in Dec. 1959 by an ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) a…

  • Sandeggtind Peak

    Sandeggtind Peak is a 3,055 metres (10,023 ft) tall peak, standing 1 mi south of Sandho Heights on Sandegga Ridge in the Conrad Mountains, Queen Maud Land. Discovered and photographed by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939), led by Capt…

  • Sandbotnen Cirque

    Sandbotnen Cirque is a cirque or small valley, the floor of which is covered by moraine, indenting the west side of Zwiesel Mountain in the Pieck Range, Wohlthat Mountains.

  • Samuel Point

    Samuel Point (Nos Samuil \'nos sa-mu-'il\) is on the coast of Bransfield Strait forming the southwest side of the entrance to Brunow Bay on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Samokov Knoll

    Samokov Knoll (Samokovska Mogila \'sa-mo-kov-ska mo-'gi-la\) is a peak of elevation 602 m in Yankov Gap area, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Samodiva Glacier

    Samodiva Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Самодива, ‘Lednik Samodiva’ \'led-nik sa-mo-'di-va\) is the 3.7 km long and 1.8 km wide glacier in the east part of Chavdar Peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated east of Tumba Ice Cap and w…

  • Salmon Cliff

    Salmon Cliff is the second prominent rock cliff south of Seabee Hook on the west side of Hallett Peninsula. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1957–58, for K.J.

  • Sally Rocks

    Sally Rocks is a small group of rocks trending southwestwards in South Bay just off the west coast of Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.