Shackleton Range
The Shackleton Range is a mountain range in Antarctica.
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The Royal Society Range (78°10′S162°40′E) is a majestic mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica. With its summit at 4,025 metres (13,205 ft), the massive Mount Lister forms the highest point in this range. Mount Lister is located along the west…
Queen Mary Land
Queen Mary Land or the Queen Mary Coast (66°45′S96°0′E) is that portion of the coast of the Australian Antarctic Territory lying between Cape Filchner, in 91° 54' E, and Cape Hordern, at 100° 30' E.
Napier Mountains
The Napier Mountains are a group of more-or-less separated peaks, the highest being Mount Elkins, at about 2,300 meters above sea level.
Mount Bird
Mount Bird is a 1,765 m (5,791 ft) high shield volcano standing about 7 miles (11 km) south of Cape Bird, the northern extremity of Ross Island. It was mapped by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott, and appa…
Mount Berlin
Mount Berlin is the sixth highest volcano in Antarctica, located 16 km west of Mount Moulton in Marie Byrd Land near the eastern coast of the Ross Sea. It is composed of two coalesced shield volcanoes: Marren Peak and Berlin Crater.
Mount Atlas
Mount Atlas (72°44′S165°30′E) is an extinct volcanic cone at the northeast side of Mount Pleiones in The Pleiades, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The geographical feature was so named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in association wi…
Mount Andrus
Mount Andrus is a shield volcano 3.2 km (2 mi) SE of Mount Boennighausen in the SE extremity of Ames Range, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1964-68. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Carl H.
Mizuho Station (Antarctica)
The Mizuho Station (みずほ基地, Mizuho Kichi) was a permanent Japanese Antarctic transshipment station.
Law-Racoviță Station
Law-Racoviță Station (Romanian: Stația Law-Racoviță) is the first permanent Romanian station for research and exploration in Antarctica, named after the Romanian explorer Emil Racoviță and inaugurated on January 13, 2006 at the location of a station…
Laurie Island
Laurie Island is the second largest of the South Orkney Islands. The island is claimed by both Argentina as part of Argentine Antarctica, and the United Kingdom as part of the British Antarctic Territory. However, under the Antarctic Treaty System a…
Lake Bonney (Antarctica)
Starting in 2007 NASA is funding an autonomous submersible robot called ENDURANCE to explore the water volume of the lake to study its shape and ecology. The robot is built by Stone Aerospace who also developed the DEPTHX submersible. The Endurance …
Janus Island
Janus Island is a rocky island 0.32 km (0.2 mi) long, lying 0.8 km (0.5 mi) south of Litchfield Island, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Janus Island is located at (64°47′S64°06′W). Janus Island is the southernmos…
Horlick Mountains
The Horlick Mountains are a mountain range in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica, lying eastward of Reedy Glacier and including the Wisconsin Range, Long Hills and Ohio Range.
Hearst Island
Hearst Island is an ice-covered, dome-shaped island lying 6 km (3.7 mi) east of Cape Rymill, in the Weddell Sea, off the eastern coast of Palmer Land.
Ellsworth Land
Ellsworth Land is that portion of the Antarctic continent bounded on the west by Marie Byrd Land, on the north by Bellingshausen Sea, on the northeast by the base of Antarctic Peninsula, and on the east by the western margin of Ronne Ice Shelf. It e…
Dominion Range
The Dominion Range (85°20′S166°30′E) is a broad mountain range, about 48 km (30 mi) long, forming a prominent salient at the juncture of the Beardmore and Mill glaciers in Antarctica.
Cuverville Island
Cuverville Island or Île de Cavelier de Cuverville is a dark, rocky island lying in Errera Channel between Arctowski Peninsula and the northern part of Rongé Island, off the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. Cuverville Island was discovered b…
Cape Denison
Cape Denison is a rocky point at the head of Commonwealth Bay in Antarctica. It was discovered in 1912 by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–14) under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Sir Hugh Denison of Sydney, a patron of the expedition. …
Bunger Hills
Bunger Hills, also known as Bunger Lakes or Bunger Oasis, is a coastal range on the Knox Coast in Wilkes Land in Antarctica, consisting of a group of moderately low, rounded coastal hills, overlain by morainic drift and notably ice free throughout t…
Beaufort Island
Beaufort Island is an island in Antarctica's Ross Sea. It is the northernmost feature of the Ross Archipelago, lying 21 kilometres (13 miles) north of Cape Bird, Ross Island. It is approximately 18.4 km2 (7 square miles) in area.
Arnold Spencer-Smith
Arnold Patrick Spencer-Smith (1883–1916) was a British clergyman and amateur photographer who joined Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–17, as Chaplain and photographer on the Ross Sea party. The hardship of the expedi…
Amery Ice Shelf
The Amery Ice Shelf (69°45′S71°0′E) is a broad ice shelf in Antarctica at the head of Prydz Bay between the Lars Christensen Coast and Ingrid Christensen Coast. It is part of Mac. Robertson Land. The name "Cape Amery" was applied to a coastal angle…
Allan Hills
The Allan Hills are group of hills, mainly ice free and about 12 nautical miles (22 km) long, lying just north-west of the Coombs Hills near the heads of Mawson Glacier and Mackay Glacier in Oates Land and Victoria Land, Antarctica. They were mapped…
Adelie Land meteorite
Adelie Land is a meteorite discovered on December 5, 1912 in Antarctica by Francis Howard Bickerton (1889-1954), a member of Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition.
Wilhelmina Bay
Wilhelmina Bay is a bay 24 kilometres (15 mi) wide between the Reclus Peninsula and Cape Anna along the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-99 led by Adrien de Gerlache.…
Skelton Inlet
The Skelton Inlet is an ice-filled inlet at the terminus of the Skelton Glacier, along the western edge of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The feature is about 16 km (10 mi) wide at the entry points between Cape Timberlake and Fishtail Point, wher…
Scullin monolith
Scullin Monolith is a crescent-shaped rock fronting the sea 6 km (3.7 mi) west of the similar Murray Monolith, and 8 km (5.0 mi) from Torlyn Mountain, in Mac.Robertson Land, Antarctica. Early in January 1930 the British Australian New Zealand Antarc…
Plateau Station
Plateau Station is an inactive American research and South Pole—Queen Maud Land Traverse support base on the central Antarctic Plateau. Construction on the site started on December 13, 1965, and the first traverse team (named SPQML II) arrived in ea…
Mount Shinn
Mount Shinn is a mountain 4,661 meters in elevation, standing 6 km (4 miles) southeast of Mount Tyree in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains.
Law Dome
Law Dome is a large ice dome which rises to 1,395 metres (4,580 ft) directly south of Cape Poinsett, Antarctica. The feature was roughly mapped by the United States Geological Survey from aerial photographs taken by U.S.
Lake Ellsworth (Antarctica)
Lake Ellsworth is a subglacial lake located in West Antarctica under approximately 3.4 km (2.1 mi) of ice. It is approximately 10 km long and is estimated to be 150 m (490 ft) in depth.
Kohnen Station
Kohnen-Station is a German summer-only polar research station in the Antarctic, able to accommodate up to 20 people.
Kiev Peninsula
Kiev Peninsula (Bulgarian: полуостров Киев, ‘Poluostrov Kiev’ \po-lu-'os-trov 'ki-ev\; Ukrainian: півострів Київ, ‘Pivostriv Kyiv’ \piv-'os-triv 'ki-yiv\) is the predominantly ice-covered, oval shaped peninsula projecting 35 km in northwest directio…
Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base
Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base, named after the king of Spain, Juan Carlos I (Spanish: Base Antártica Española Juan Carlos Primero), is a seasonal (November to March) scientific station operated by Spain, opened in January 1988. Situated on Hurd Penin…
Hughes Bay
Hughes Bay is a bay lying between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray along the west comast of the Antarctic Peninsula.