Antarctic Zhongshan Station
Zhongshan Station (Chinese: 中山站; pinyin: Zhōngshān Zhàn) is the second Chinese research station in Antarctica and was opened on February 26th, 1989.
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The Wright Valley, named for Sir Charles Wright, is the central one of the three large Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, located west of McMurdo Sound at approximately (77°10′S161°50′E). Wright Valley contains the Onyx River, the largest…
St. Ivan Rilski Chapel
The St. Ivan Rilski Chapel (St. John of Rila Chapel, Bulgarian: Параклис Свети Иван Рилски) at the Bulgarian base St. Kliment Ohridski on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands is the first Eastern Orthodox edifice in Antarctica, and the so…
Sky Blu
Sky Blu is a forward operating station for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in southern Palmer Land, Antarctica. It is in an area of blue ice (extremely hard and dense ice which has lost the air bubbles that normally cloud the ice).
Queen Maud Mountains
The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau …
Progress Station
Progress (Russian: Прогресс) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) research station in Antarctica.
Paulet Island
Paulet Island is a circular island about 1.5 km (0.93 mi) in diameter, lying 4.5 km (2.8 mi) south-east of Dundee Island, off the north-eastern end of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Palmer Land
Palmer Land (71°30′S065°00′W) is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz.
Molodyozhnaya Station (Antarctica)
Molodyozhnaya (Russian: Молодёжная), (also known as "Molodezhnaya"), was a Soviet research station in East Antarctica at 67°40′S 45°50′E. The station is sometimes referred to as the capital of Antarctica.
Mertz Glacier
Mertz Glacier (67°30′S144°45′E) is a heavily crevassed glacier in George V Coast of East Antarctica. It is the source of a glacial prominence that historically has extended northward into the Southern Ocean, the Mertz Glacial Tongue.
Mac. Robertson Land
Mac. Robertson Land is the portion of Antarctica lying southward of the coast between William Scoresby Bay and Cape Darnley. Mac. Robertson Land is located at (70°00′S65°00′E). In the east, Mac. Robertson Land includes the Prince Charles Mountains.…
Carlini Base
Carlini Base (Spanish: Base Carlini), formerly known as Jubany Base, is an Argentine permanent base and scientific research station named after scientist Alejandro Ricardo Carlini (previously it had been named after Argentine naval pilot José Isidro…
Inexpressible Island
Inexpressible Island is a small, rocky island in Terra Nova Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Cape Royds
Cape Royds is a dark rock cape forming the western extremity of Ross Island, facing on McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. It was discovered by the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) and named for Lieutenant Charles Royds, Royal Navy, who acted as meteorologis…
Brown Station
Brown Station (Spanish: Estación Científica Almirante Brown, or more often Base Brown or Estación Brown) is an Argentine Antarctic base and scientific research station named after Admiral William Brown, the father of the Argentine Navy.
Alfred Faure
Alfred-Faure or Port Alfred is a permanent French scientific station on Île de la Possession (Possession Island) of the subantarctic Crozet Archipelago in the South Indian Ocean. It is located at the eastern end of the island on a plateau 143 m (460…
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, It extends northeastward for about 130 km (81 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kjellman on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the south-ea…
Thurston Island
Thurston Island is an ice-covered, glacially dissected island, 215 km (134 mi) long, 90 km (56 mi) wide and 15,700 km2 (6,062 sq mi) in area, lying a short way off the NW end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It is the third largest island of Antarctic…
Sentinel Range
The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about 185 km (115 mi) and is 24 to 48 km (15 to 30 mi) wide. Ma…
Scott Island
Scott Island is a small uninhabited island of volcanic origin in the Ross Sea, Southern Ocean, 505 kilometres (310 mi) northeast of Cape Adare, the northeastern extremity of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is 565 metres (618 yd) long north-south, and …
Russkaya Station
Russkaya station was a Soviet Antarctic research station located at (74°46′S136°52′W) (Ruppert Coast, Marie Byrd Land in Western Antarctica).
Roosevelt Island, Antarctica
Roosevelt Island is an ice-covered island, about 130 km (81 mi) long in a NW-SE direction, 65 km (40 mi) wide and about 7,500 km2 (2,896 sq mi) in area, lying in the eastern part of the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica.
Paradise Harbor
Paradise Harbor, also known as Paradise Bay, is a wide embayment behind Lemaire and Bryde Islands in Antarctica, indenting the west coast of Graham Land between Duthiers and Leniz Points. The name was first applied by whalers operating in the vicini…
Oscar II Coast
Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather and Cape Alexander. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A.
Mendel Polar Station
Johann Gregor Mendel Czech Antarctic Station (Mendelova polární stanice in Czech) is a Czech research station built in Antarctica, on the coast of James Ross Island. The station, the project of the Masaryk University in Brno, Moravia, was opened in …
Desolation Island (South Shetland Islands)
Desolation Island is one of the minor islands in the South Shetlands archipelago, Antarctica situated at the entrance to Hero Bay, Livingston Island. The island is V-shaped with its northern coast indented by Kozma Cove.
Dan Albone
Daniel Albone (12 September 1860 – 30 October 1906) was an English inventor, manufacturer and cyclist.
Chapel of the Snows
The Chapel of the Snows is a non-denominational Christian church located at the United States' McMurdo Station on Ross Island, Antarctica. The chapel is the second southernmost religious building in the world and has regular Catholic and Protestant …
Black Island (Ross Archipelago)
Black Island (78°14′S166°20′E), in the Ross Archipelago, is immediately west of White Island. It was first named by the Discovery Expedition (1901–04) because of its lack of snow.
Belgrano II Base
Belgrano II Base (Spanish: Base Belgrano II) is a permanent, all year-round Argentine Antarctic base and scientific research station named after General Manuel Belgrano, one of the Libertadores and the creator of the Argentine Flag.
Axel Heiberg Glacier
The Axel Heiberg Glacier in Antarctica is a valley glacier, 48 km (30 mi) long, descending from the high elevations of the Antarctic Plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf (nearly at sea level) between the Herbert Range and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen i…
Asuka Station (Antarctica)
The Asuka Station (あすか基地, Asuka Kichi) is a permanent Japanese Antarctic unmanned observation base.
Alph River
Alph River is a small river of Antarctica, running into Walcott Bay, Victoria Land. It is located in an ice-free region at the west of the Koettlitz Glacier, Scott Coast. The Alph emerges from Trough Lake, and flows through Walcott Lake, Howchin Lak…
Terra Nova Bay
Terra Nova Bay is a bay which is often ice free, about 64 km (40 mi) long, lying between Cape Washington and the Drygalski Ice Tongue along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (known…
Tangra Mountains
Tangra Mountains (in Bulgarian Тангра планина, 'Tangra planina' \'tan-gra pla-ni-'na\) (62°40′00″S60°06′00″W) form the principal mountain range of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Siple Island
Siple Island is a 110 km (68 mi) long snow-covered island lying east of Wrigley Gulf along the Getz Ice Shelf off Bakutis Coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.