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  • Dalgopol Glacier

    Dalgopol Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Дългопол, ‘Lednik Galgopol’ \'led-nik d&l-go-'pol\) is a 3.4 km long glacier draining the northwest slopes of Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated northeast of Vetr…

  • Dailey Islands

    The Dailey Islands (77°53′S165°8′E) are a group of small volcanic islands lying off the coast of Victoria Land, 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Cape Chocolate, in the northern part of the ice shelf bordering McMurdo Sound. They were discovered by the B…

  • Dabnik Peak

    Dabnik Peak (Bulgarian: връх Дъбник, ‘Vrah Dabnik’ \'vr&h d&b-'nik\) is the peak rising to 1090 m off the west extremity of Laclavère Plateau on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated on the east side of Misty Pass, 14.2 km southeast of Ca…

  • Cumpston Glacier

    Cumpston Glacier is a small glacier on the east coast of Graham Land, draining between Breitfuss Glacier and Quartermain Glacier into the head of Mill Inlet. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for J.S.

  • Cruzen Island

    Cruzen Island is a rocky, but mostly snow-covered island about 93 kilometres (50 nmi) north-northeast of the mouth of Land Glacier off the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.

  • Cronk Islands

    The Cronk Islands (66°19′S110°25′E) are a group of Antarctic islands lying northeast of Hollin Island, in the Windmill Islands.

  • Crevasse Valley Glacier

    Crevasse Valley Glacier (76°46′S145°30′W) is a broad glacier about 30 miles (50 km) long, flowing west-southwest between the Chester Mountains and the Saunders Mountain to the Sulzberger Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.

  • Crawford Glacier

    Crawford Glacier (70°53′S163°13′E) is a tributary glacier which drains the eastern slopes of the Explorers Range between Mount Hager and Mount Ford, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It descends east to join Lillie Glacier south of Platypus Ridge. It was …

  • Crash Nunatak

    Crash Nunatak is an isolated nunatak between Beta Peak and Mount Bowen in the Prince Albert Mountains, Victoria Land. It was named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1962–63, because the nunatak lies clo…

  • Cranfield Icefalls

    The Cranfield Icefalls are a series of about eight spectacular icefalls, in an east-west line, falling steeply from Bucknell Ridge into the narrowest portion of Darwin Glacier near its mouth. The feature was named by the Darwin Glacier Party of the …

  • Craig Pond

    Craig Pond is a freshwater frozen pond 0.85 nautical miles (1.6 km) east of Dauphin Pond in the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2004) after Scott D. Craig of the U.S.

  • Cracktrack Glacier

    Cracktrack Glacier is a glacier flowing west from the central Homerun Range into upper Tucker Glacier in the Admiralty Mountains, Victoria Land. The glacier provided an access route to Field Neve for R.H. Findlay's New Zealand Antarctic Research Pro…

  • Courtney Peak

    Courtney Peak is a peak, 1,060 metres (3,480 ft) high, in the northern part of the Gross Hills, Heritage Range. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–66, and named by the Advisory Commi…

  • Cosgrove Ice Shelf

    Cosgrove Ice Shelf is a 35-mile (56 km) long by 25-mile (40 km) wide ice shelf, occupying the inner (east) part of the embayment between King Peninsula and Canisteo Peninsula, Antarctica. It was mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Hi…

  • Cosgrove Glacier

    Cosgrove Glacier is a small glacier entering the south part of Stefansson Bay just west of Mulebreen Glacier, Kemp Land, Antarctica. Seen from an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions aircraft in 1956 and later mapped, it was named by t…

  • Correa Point

    Correa Point is a point projecting 350 m into the south part of Discovery Bay from Parvomay Neck, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica with an adjacent ice-free area of 17 hectares (42 acres).

  • Cornwall Island (Antarctica)

    Cornwall Island is a low ice-free island off the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Surface area 15 hectares (37 acres). Mónica Rock (62°20′28.4″S59°44′27″W) is lying 1.65 km (1.03 mi) west of the island and 3.4…

  • Cordiner Peaks

    The Cordiner Peaks are a group of peaks extending over an area of 6 nautical miles (11 km), standing 8 nautical miles (15 km) southwest of Dufek Massif in the northern part of the Pensacola Mountains. They were discovered and photographed on January…

  • Copland Pass

    Copland Pass is a pass at about 1,600 metres (5,200 ft) over Frostbite Spine, the ridge between Hooker Glacier and Salient Glacier in the Royal Society Range, Victoria Land. It was named after Copland Pass, New Zealand, by R.H.

  • Conway Ice Ridge

    Conway Ice Ridge is an ice ridge between Whillans Ice Stream and Mercer Ice Stream on the Gould Coast, Marie Byrd Land. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Howard B. Conway of the Department of Geophysics at the Universit…

  • Contell Glacier

    Contell Glacier is the 2 km (1.2 mi) long and 700 m (2,300 ft) wide glacier on Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica bounded by Atlantic Club Ridge to the northwest, Krum Rock to the north, Balkan Snowfield to t…

  • Collinson Ridge

    Collinson Ridge (85°13′S175°21′W) is a bare rock spur next north of Halfmoon Bluff in the northwest part of the Cumulus Hills, Queen Maud Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy aerial photogr…

  • Colleen Lake

    Colleen Lake is a small meltwater lake between the lower parts of Joyce Glacier and Garwood Glacier in Victoria Land. It was first seen on the ground by U.S. geologist Troy L.

  • Coleman Glacier (Antarctica)

    Coleman Glacier is a steep, heavily crevassed glacier draining westward from Mount Andrus in the south part of the Ames Range, Marie Byrd Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65,…

  • Cole Peninsula

    Cole Peninsula (66°50′S64°0′W) is a peninsula, 24 kilometers long in an east-west direction and 13 kilometers wide, lying between Cabinet Inlet and Mill Inlet on the east coast of Graham Land, just east of Thuronyi Bluff and immediately north of th…

  • Colbeck Archipelago

    Colbeck Archipelago is an archipelago of numerous small rocky islands centered 1 mi northwest of Byrd Head, just east of Taylor Glacier, off Mawson Coast. Discovered in January 1930 and charted in February 1931 by the British Australian and New Zeal…

  • Coblentz Peak

    Coblentz Peak is a peak rising at the north side of the head of Holtedahl Bay, in Chiren Heights, Velingrad Peninsula, on the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. It was photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57 and was mapped from thes…

  • Cobham Range

    The Cobham Range trends in a northwest–southeast direction for about 20 nautical miles (40 km), standing west of Prince Philip Glacier in the southern part of the Churchill Mountains.

  • Cloyd Island

    Cloyd Island (66°25′S110°33′E) is a rocky Antarctic island, 0.6 mi (0.97 km) long, between Ford and Herring Islands in the south part of the Windmill Islands off the Budd Coast. It was first mapped from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Hig…

  • Clothier Harbour

    Clothier Harbour is the 1.5 km wide bay indenting for 1 km the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica between Hammer Point on the northeast and Onogur Islands on the southwest.

  • Cline Glacier

    Cline Glacier is a large glacier that drains the vicinity at the east side of Mount Jackson and flows generally southeast between Schirmacher Massif and Rowley Massif into the head of Odom Inlet, on the east side of Palmer Land. It was mapped by Uni…

  • Clarie Coast

    Clarie Coast, called Wilkes Coast by Australia, (66°30′S133°0′E) is that portion of the coast of Wilkes Land lying between Cape Morse, at 130°10′E, and Pourquoi Pas Point, at 136°11′E.

  • Churchill Peninsula

    Churchill Peninsula (66°30′S62°45′W) is an ice-covered peninsula between Cabinet Inlet and Adie Inlet, extending some 30 miles (50 km) in a southeasterly direction from the east coast of Graham Land.

  • Chudomir Cove

    Chudomir Cove (Bulgarian: залив Чудомир, ‘Zaliv Chudomir’ \'za-liv chu-do-'mir\) is the 4.3 km wide cove indenting for 3.4 km the southeast coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula south of Pitt Point and north of Kiten Point.