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  • Oakley Glacier

    Oakley Glacier (73°42′S166°08′E), is a glacier in the Mountaineer Range that descends east from Mount Casey to merge with the floating tongue from the Icebreaker Glacier at Lady Newnes Bay, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mapped by U.S. Geological Su…

  • O'Hara Glacier

    O'Hara Glacier (70°49′S166°40′E) is a glacier just west of Ackroyd Point, flowing northwest into the south side of Yule Bay, Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Na…

  • O'Donnell Peak

    O'Donnell Peak (72°24′S166°1′E) is a peak on the polar plateau, situated 5 nautical miles (9 km) west of Joice Icefall of the Millen Range. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960–64. Na…

  • O'Connors Rock

    O'Connors Rock (62°5′S58°24′W) is a rock 0.1 nautical miles (0.2 km) southwest of Stenhouse Bluff, King George Island, lying in Visca Anchorage in the north part of Admiralty Bay, in the South Shetland Islands. First charted by the French Antarctic…

  • O'Connor Nunataks

    O'Connor Nunataks (76°26′S143°25′W) is a group of rock exposures rising above the ice near the head of Balchen Glacier, 5 nautical miles (9 km) northeast of Griffith Nunataks in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land.

  • O'Connor Island

    O'Connor Island (66°25′S110°28′E) is a rocky island, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) long, between Holl and Ford Islands in the south part of the Windmill Islands. First mapped from air photos taken by United States Navy Operation Highjump and Ope…

  • O'Cain Point

    O'Cain Point (62°16′S58°53′W) is a point lying 3 nautical miles (6 km) northwest of Duthoit Point on the east side of Nelson Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The name O'Cain's Island, after the American sealing vessel O'Cain (Captain Jonathan…

  • O'Brien Bay

    O'Brien Bay (66°18′S110°32′E) is a bay lying between Bailey Peninsula and Mitchell Peninsula on the Budd Coast. First mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948. Named by the Advisory Commit…

  • Nove Peak

    Nove Peak (Bulgarian: връх Нове, ‘Vrah Nove’ \'vr&h 'no-ve\) is the ice-covered peak rising to over 1000 m in the south part of Marescot Ridge on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.

  • Northeast Glacier

    Northeast Glacier is a steep, heavily crevassed glacier, 21 km (13 mi) long and 8 km (5 mi) wide at its mouth, which flows from McLeod Hill westward and then south-westwards into Marguerite Bay between the Debenham Islands and Roman Four Promontory,…

  • North Masson Range

    North Masson Range is part of the Masson Range, which is divided into three parts of which this segment is the northern, rising to 1,030 m and extending 3 nautical miles (6 km) in a north-south direction. The Masson Range was discovered and named by…

  • Nolan Island

    Nolan Island is an ice-covered island 6 nautical miles (11 km) long, lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) north of Court Ridge in Sulzberger Ice Shelf, along the coast of Marie Byrd Land. Discovered and mapped by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS…

  • Nøkkel Island

    Nøkkel Island is the southernmost of the Nøkkelholmane Islands, lying off the west side of Skarvsnes Foreland in the east part of Lutzow-Holm Bay.

  • Nodule Nunatak

    Nodule Nunatak is a small but prominent isolated nunatak, 440 m, standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) south of Mount Tholus in the southern part of Joinville Island.

  • Nikyup Point

    Nikyup Point (Bulgarian: нос Никюп, ‘Nos Nikyup’ \'nos ni-'kyup\) is the point next east of Andrew Glacier terminus on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 12.65 km south-southeast of Radibosh Point, 6.3 km northeast of Velichkov Knoll, …

  • Nikopol Point

    Nikopol Point (Nos Nikopol \'nos ni-'ko-pol\) is a snow-free point on the south coast of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting 650 m east-southeastwards into Bransfield Strait and linked by a spit to…

  • Nickerson Ice Shelf

    Nickerson Ice Shelf (75°45′S145°00′W), is an ice shelf about 35 miles wide, lying north of Siemiatkowski Glacier and the western part of Ruppert Coast, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. First observed and roughly mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition …

  • Newcomb Bay

    Newcomb Bay is a sheltered bay about 1 mile (1.6 km) in extent, between Clark Peninsula and Bailey Peninsula in the Windmill Islands. First mapped from U.S. Navy Operation Highjump aerial photographs taken in February 1947. In February 1957, Willis …

  • New Bedford Inlet

    New Bedford Inlet (73°22′S61°15′W) is a large pouch-shaped, ice-filled embayment between Cape Kidson and Cape Brooks, along the east coast of Palmer Land.

  • Nevlya Peak

    Nevlya Peak (Bulgarian: връх Невля, ‘Vrah Nevlya’ \'vr&h 'ne-vlya\) is an ice-covered peak rising to 390 m in Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 620 m west of Terter Peak, 1.64 km north-northwest …

  • Nestinari Nunataks

    Nestinari Nunataks (Nestinarski Nunatatsi \ne-sti-'nar-ski 'nu-na-ta-tsi\) are a pair of rocky peaks of elevation 470 m and 520 m in middle Huron Glacier, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Nesebar Gap

    Nesebar Gap (Sedlovina Nesebar \se-dlo-vi-'na ne-'se-b&r\) is a 1.3 km wide gap in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica bounded to the west by Pliska Ridge and to the east by the northern slope of Mount Friesland, Tang…

  • Neofit Peak

    Neofit Peak (Bulgarian: връх Неофит, ‘Vrah Neofit’ \'vr&h ne-'o-fit\) is an ice-covered peak rising to 1750 m in Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 1.12 km south-southwest of Slaveykov Peak, 3.1 km southw…

  • Neny Matterhorn

    Neny Matterhorn is a sharp, pyramid-shaped peak over 1,125 m, standing in the northwest part of the Blackwall Mountains on the south side of Neny Fjord, Graham Land. First roughly surveyed in 1936-37 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) unde…

  • Neny Island

    Neny Island or (Neny Islands as a variant name) is an island 2.4 km (1.5 mi) long which rises to 675 m (2,215 ft), lying 1.6 km (1 mi) northwest of Roman Four Promontory and directly north of the mouth of Neny Fjord, off the west coast of Graham Lan…

  • Neny Fjord

    Neny Fjord is a fjord which is 10 miles long in an east-west direction and 5 miles wide, between Red Rock Ridge and Roman Four Promontory on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.

  • Nelson Rock

    Nelson Rock is a solitary island, being essentially a dark rock which is partly ice-covered and lies 4.8 km (3 mi) north of Williams Rocks, off the coast of Mac Robertson Land in Holme Bay. The Rock was mapped by Robert G. Dovers of the Australian N…

  • Negro Hill

    Negro Hill is a conspicuous rocky hill, double-peaked with a small tarn in between, rising to 143 m at South Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Negra Point

    Negra Point is the ice-free tipped point on the southwest coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the southeast side of the entrance to Mitchell Cove.