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  • Cape Astrup

    Cape Astrup (64°43′S63°11′W) is a bold, dark-colored bluff marking the north end of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.

  • Cape Alexander

    Cape Alexander (66°44′S62°37′W) is a cape which forms the south end of Churchill Peninsula and the east side of the entrance to Cabinet Inlet, on the east coast of Graham Land.

  • Cape Akarui

    Cape Akarui (68°29′S41°23′E), also known as Cape Miho, is a rocky cape 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Cape Omega on the coast of Queen Maud Land.

  • Canisteo Peninsula

    Canisteo Peninsula (73°48′S102°20′W) is an ice-covered peninsula, about 30 miles (50 km) long and 20 miles (30 km) wide, which projects between Ferrero Bay and Cranton Bay into the eastern extremity of the Amundsen Sea. It was delineated from air p…

  • Canis Heights

    Canis Heights is a mainly snow-covered ridge located between the two upper tributaries of Millett Glacier on the western edge of the Dyer Plateau of Palmer Land.

  • Caffin Valley

    Caffin Valley is a cirque-type valley between Mount Bastion and Gibson Spur in the Willett Range, Victoria Land. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1985 after James M.

  • Cabinet Inlet

    Cabinet Inlet (66°35′S63°10′W) is an ice-filled inlet, 36 miles (58 km) long in a northwest–southeast direction, and some 27 miles (43 km) wide at its entrance between Cape Alexander and Cape Robinson, along the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctic…

  • Butter Point

    Butter Point is located in McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. This area at the mouth of the Ferrar Glacier is straight across the sound from Hut Point. It was considered as the site of New Zealand's Scott Base because it offered the best approach by sea a…

  • Butamya Glacier

    Butamya Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Бутамя, ‘Lednik Butamya’ \'led-nik bu-ta-'mya\) is the 6.9 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier on Barison Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated northwest of Talev Glacier and north-n…

  • Burkett Islands

    The Burkett Islands are a group of small islands lying just west of Mount Gleadell in the eastern part of Amundsen Bay, in Enderby Land. Mapped from air photos taken from an aircraft of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) …

  • Burgas Peninsula

    Burgas Peninsula (Poluostrov Burgas \po-lu-'os-trov bur-'gas\) is a predominantly ice-covered peninsula forming the east extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 10 km in the east-northeast direction towards…

  • Burel Hill

    Burel Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Бурел, ‘Halm Burel’ \'h&lm 'bu-rel\) is the ice-free hill rising to 152 m in the northwest part of Desolation Island off Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Burdick West Peak

    Burdick West Peak (Vrah Zapaden Burdick \'vr&h 'za-pa-den 'b&r-dik\) rises to 455 m at the northwest extremity of Burdick Ridge in eastern Livingston Island.

  • Burdick South Peak

    Burdick South Peak (Vrah Yuzhen Burdick \'vr&h 'yu-zhen 'b&r-dik\) rises 544 m and is formed by an offshoot extending 1 km west-southwestwards from the southeastern extremity of Burdick Ridge in eastern Livingston Island. The peak is narrow, with st…

  • Buena Nueva Cove

    Buena Nueva Cove is a small open cove, 900 m wide and indenting for 200 m the northwest coast of False Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica southeast of MacGregor Peaks and east of Castro Peak on Hurd Peninsula.

  • Buddenbrock Range

    The Buddenbrock Range is a group of scattered mountains and nunataks between Austreskorve Glacier and Vestreskorve Glacier in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land. The name Buddenbrockkette was applied in the general area by the Third Ger…

  • Buchino Rocks

    Buchino Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Бучино, ‘Skali Buchino’ ska-'li 'bu-chi-no) is a group of rocks off the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated 1.5 km (0.93 mi) northwest of Stoker Island, 1.6 km (0.99 mi) …

  • Bubble Spur

    Bubble Spur is a flattish rock spur that separates the lower ends of Blankenship Glacier and Tedrow Glacier, to the west of Table Mountain, Royal Society Range, in Victoria Land.

  • Brusen Point

    Brusen Point (Bulgarian: нос Брусен, ‘Nos Brusen’ \'nos 'bru-sen\) is the narrow rocky point projecting 200 m in north-northwest direction and forming the north extremity of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Bruix Cove

    Bruix Cove is the 1.93 km wide cove indenting for 1.75 km the south coast of Moon Bay in eastern Livingston Island, the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica. Entered between Yana Point and Rila Point.

  • Browning Peninsula

    Browning Peninsula (66°28′S110°33′E) is a rocky peninsula, 4 miles (6.4 km) long, separating Penney Bay and Eyres Bay at the south end of the Windmill Islands. It was first mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump and Operation …

  • Brown Range

    Brown Range or Sørtindane Peaks is a group of seven peaks in Framnes Mountains about 4 km south of Mount Twintop in Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. Two of the peaks were maped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Chr…

  • Brooklyn Island

    Brooklyn Island (64°39′S62°4′W) is an island 4 km (2.5 mi) long, lying 1.6 km (1 mi) south of Nansen Island in the eastern part of Wilhelmina Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlac…

  • Brook Glacier

    Brook Glacier (78°42′S85°09′W) is a glacier that flows westward between Mount Strybing, Mount Allen and Krusha Peak on the west side of Owen Ridge in southern Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica, and joins Bender Glacier east of Chapl…

  • Brichebor Peak (Antarctica)

    Brichebor Peak (Bulgarian: връх Бричебор, ‘Vrah Brichebor’ \'vr&h 'bri-che-bor\) is the peak rising to 2900 m in Vinson Massif, Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, situated at the end of a side ridge descending southwestwards from Prí…

  • Breste Cove

    Breste Cove (Bulgarian: залив Бресте, ‘Zaliv Breste’ \'za-liv bre-'ste\) is the 700 m wide cove indenting for 850 m the east coast of Tower Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica situated south of Harmanli Cove. Entered north of Castillo Point…

  • Breplogen Mountain

    Breplogen Mountain (71°55′S5°27′E) is a broad mountain, 2,725 metres (8,940 ft) high, which is ice covered except on its north and east sides, standing west of Austreskorve Glacier in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land.

  • Brennan Point

    Brennan Point is an ice-covered headland forming the eastern side of the entrance to Block Bay on the coast of Marie Byrd Land; Brennan Point forms a border between Saunders Coast and Ruppert Coast. It was discovered on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition…

  • Bozhinov Glacier

    Bozhinov Glacier (Bulgarian: Божинов ледник, ‘Bozhinov Lednik’ \bo-'zhi-nov 'led-nik\) is the 5 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier on Danco Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula situated north of Krebs Glacier and south of Nobile Glacier.

  • Boyana Glacier

    Boyana Glacier (Lednik Boyana \'led-nik bo-'ya-na\) in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica is situated southeast of Macy Glacier and west-southwest of Srebarna Glacier. It is bounded by Vazov Roc…

  • Bowman Peninsula

    Bowman Peninsula (74°47′S62°22′W) is a peninsula, 46 kilometres (25 nmi) long in a north-south direction and 28 kilometres (15 nmi) wide in its northern and central portions, lying between Nantucket Inlet and Gardner Inlet on the east coast of Palm…

  • Bowles West Peak

    Bowles West Peak (Vrah Zapaden Bowles \'vr&h 'za-pa-den 'bOls\) is a peak rising to 678 m at the western extremity of Bowles Ridge in eastern Livingston Island in Antarctica.