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  • Hannan Ice Shelf

    Hannan Ice Shelf (67°36′S47°35′E), is an 18-mile-wide ice shelf on the coast of Enderby Land, Antarctica. The ice shelf is nourished by Molle and Kichenside Glaciers and borders McKinnon Island on all but its north side. Photographed from Australia…

  • Hampton Ridge

    Hampton Ridge is a ridge about 10 nautical miles (20 km) long in the Queen Alexandra Range of Antarctica, running north from Pagoda Peak between Montgomerie Glacier and Mackellar Glacier. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for…

  • Hammer Point

    Hammer Point is a rocky point projecting from the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica 1 km north-northwestwards into Drake Passage, and forming the southwest side of the entrance to Nevestino Cove and the northeast…

  • Hammer Col

    Hammer Col (78°34′S85°23′W) is a broad ice-covered col at 3,800 metres (12,500 ft) elevation between the south part of the Vinson Massif and the Craddock Massif in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica.

  • Hall Peninsula, Snow Island

    Hall Peninsula is a small ice-free peninsula on the southeast coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature is scissors shaped with its north and south arms extending 800 m and 750 m respectively, with Ivaylo Cove lying…

  • Haines Mountains

    The Haines Mountains are a range of ice-capped mountains trending northwest–southeast for about 25 miles (40 km) and forming the southwest wall of Hammond Glacier, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They were discovered by the Byrd A…

  • Hagey Ridge

    Hagey Ridge (74°57′S134°56′W) is a high snow-covered ridge, between the Björnert Cliffs and Johnson Glacier, forming the east end of the McDonald Heights on the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The ridge was first photographed from an aircraft…

  • Hageman Peak

    Hageman Peak (71°43′S70°48′W) is a montane landform pinnacle rising to about 940 metres (3,100 ft) at the northwest end of the Staccato Peaks in southern Alexander Island, Antarctica. The peak was photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1…

  • Hag Pike

    Hag Pike (68°57′S66°59′W) is a conspicuous rock column, 710 metres (2,330 ft) high, on the north side of the Wordie Ice Shelf near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Together with the mountain to the north, it forms the west side of the mou…

  • Haffner Pass

    Haffner Pass (69°47′S71°22′W) is a pass running northeast–southwest and rising to about 500 metres (1,600 ft) between Gilbert Glacier and Mozart Ice Piedmont in northern Alexander Island, Antarctica.

  • Haffner Glacier

    Haffner Glacier (71°28′S169°24′E) is a small glacier discharging into Berg Bay along the north coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was first charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, under Carsten. E. Borchgrevink, who named it for…

  • Haefeli Glacier

    Haefeli Glacier (67°18′S66°23′W) is a glacier, 2 miles (3 km) wide and 6 miles (10 km) long, situated on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, at the northwest side of Finsterwalder Glacier and flowing south-southwest toward th…

  • Hadley Upland

    Hadley Upland (68°29′S66°24′W) is a triangular shaped remnant plateau with an undulating surface, 1,500 to 1,900 metres (4,900 to 6,200 ft), in southern Graham Land, Antarctica. It is bounded by Windy Valley and Martin Glacier, Gibbs Glacier and La…

  • Hadley Peak

    Hadley Peak (85°1′S90°40′W) is a peak 2,660 metres (8,730 ft) high, surmounting the escarpment at the north edge of Ford Massif in the Thiel Mountains of Antarctica. The name was proposed by Peter Bermel and Arthur B. Ford, co-leaders of the United…

  • Hades Terrace

    Hades Terrace is a steep, mainly ice-covered bluff along the east side of Campbell Glacier, situated just west of the Vulcan Hills in the Southern Cross Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

  • Haddon Bay

    Haddon Bay is a bay lying immediately east of Mount Alexander along the south coast of Joinville Island, Antarctica. It was discovered in January 1893 by Thomas Robertson, master of the ship Active, one of the Dundee whalers. The bay was surveyed by…

  • Hackerman Ridge

    Hackerman Ridge (72°39′S167°46′E) is a large mountainous ridge trending north-south between Gruendler Glacier and Rudolph Glacier, in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for …

  • Hachinosu Peak

    Hachinosu Peak (69°1′S39°35′E) is a small hill, 45 metres (150 ft) high, standing 0.2 miles (0.3 km) east of Nishino-ura Cove and marking the highest point on East Ongul Island, Antarctica.

  • Gutenko Nunataks

    The Gutenko Nunataks are small, elongated nunataks 1 nautical mile (2 km) west of Mount Morgan in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.

  • Gusla Peak

    Gusla Peak (Bulgarian: връх Гусла, ‘Vrah Gusla’ \'vr&h 'gu-sla\) is the peak rising to 1200 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, at the NNW extremity of a narrow 3.9 km long rocky ridge su…

  • Gurgulyat Peak

    Gurgulyat Peak (Bulgarian: връх Гургулят, ‘Vrah Gurgulyat’ \'vr&h gur-gu-'lyat\) is the peak rising to 1050 m in Kondofrey Heights on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 2.08 km southwest of Skakavitsa Peak, 4 km west by north of Mount …

  • Guest Peninsula

    Guest Peninsula is a snow-covered peninsula about 45 miles (70 km) long between the Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Mitchell Peak, located on the peninsula, was sighted by the first Byrd Antar…

  • Guesalaga Peninsula

    Guesalaga Peninsula is a small, L-shaped, low-lying shingle covered peninsula on the east side of Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the northwest coast of Iquique Cove and the north side of its entranc…

  • Guayaquil Bay

    Guayaquil Bay is the 2.59 km wide bay indenting for 1.25 km the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and entered between Agüedo Point and Orión Point. The bay is used by ships servicing the Ecuadorian Antarctic b…

  • Gruev Cove

    Gruev Cove (Gruev Zaliv \'gru-ev 'za-liv\) is the 300 m wide cove indenting for 650 m the east coast of Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands south of Santa Cruz Point and north of Parchevich Ridge.

  • Grotto Island

    Grotto Island is a narrow island 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) long with a serrated coastline, lying 0.1 nautical miles (0.2 km) north of Galindez Island in the Argentine Islands, Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica.

  • Grigorov Glacier

    Grigorov Glacier (Bulgarian: Григоров ледник, ‘Grigorov Lednik’ \gri-'go-rov 'led-nik\) is the 1.8 km long and 1.3 km wide glacier on the south coast of Albena Peninsula on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica draining the east slope…

  • Griffiths Glacier

    Griffiths Glacier is a prominent cirque-type glacier located northeast of Crisp Glacier in the Gonville and Caius Range, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The feature drains east-southeast to Debenham Glacier to the east of Second Facet. It was named after…

  • Griffith Peak (Antarctica)

    Griffith Peak is a rock peak rising over 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) in the western Wisconsin Range of Antarctica, standing at the north side of the mouth of Hueneme Glacier at the junction with Reedy Glacier. It was mapped by the United States Geologic…

  • Griffith Island

    Griffith Island (66°20′S110°29′E) is a small Antarctic island at the south entrance to Robertson Channel in the Windmill Islands. It was first mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948. It was na…

  • Griffin Cove

    Griffin Cove is the 800 m wide cove indenting for 260 m the northwest coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and entered between Gargoyle Bastion to the northeast and Organpipe Point to the southwest.

  • Greenwell Glacier

    The Greenwell Glacier is a major tributary glacier, 45 miles (72 km) long, draining northwest between the Mirabito Range and the Everett Range to enter Lillie Glacier below Mount Works, in northwest Victoria Land, Antarctica. This geographical featu…

  • Green Valley (Antarctica)

    Green Valley is a steep-sided, ice-filled valley that indents the east side of Ford Massif just north of Janulis Spur, in the Thiel Mountains of Antarctica. The name was proposed by Arthur B. Ford and Peter Bermel, co-leaders of the United States Ge…