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  • Bowles Ridge

    Bowles Ridge (Hrebet Bowles \'hre-bet 'bOls\) is the central ridge of eastern Livingston Island. The ridge extends 6.5 km in the east-west direction and is 1.5 km wide. The summit of the ridge is Mount Bowles which rises to 822m and is located 9.77 …

  • Bøving Island

    Bøving Island (66°17′S110°31′E) is a small Antarctic island in the south part of Newcomb Bay, lying 0.1 mi (0.16 km) east of McMullin Island in the Windmill Islands. It was first mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump in 1946 and 19…

  • Bourchier Cove

    Bourchier Cove (Bulgarian: залив Баучър, ‘Zaliv Bourchier’ \'za-liv 'bau-ch&r\) is the 2.35 km wide cove indenting for 860 m the northwest coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Boudette Peaks

    The Boudette Peaks are twin peaks, 2,810 metres (9,220 ft) and 2,815 metres (9,236 ft) high, located 1 nautical mile (2 km) west-southwest of Lavris Peak in the northern portion of Mount Hartigan, in the Executive Committee Range, Marie Byrd Land. T…

  • Botev Peak, Livingston Island

    Botev Peak (Botev Vrah \'bo-tev 'vr&h\) is a peak rising to about 370 m in the southern extremity of the Veleka Ridge of Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica overlooking Tarnovo Ice Piedmont to the ea…

  • Bosner Island

    Bosner Island (66°27′S110°36′E) is an Antarctic rocky island, 0.3 mi (0.48 km) long, lying 0.1 mi (0.16 km) northwest of Boffa Island and half a mile east of Browning Peninsula in the south part of the Windmill Islands.

  • Borrello Island

    Borrello Island (66°19′S110°22′E) is a small Antarctic island lying off the western side of Hollin Island, in the Windmill Islands. It was first mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1946 and 1947. Named b…

  • Borovan Knoll

    Borovan Knoll (Bulgarian: Борованска могила, ‘Borovanska Mogila’ \bo-ro-'van-ska mo-'gi-la\) is the hill rising to 878 m on the west coast of Lindblad Cove on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula.

  • Borghallet

    Borghallet is a gently-sloping plain of about 100 square miles (260 km2), lying north of Borg Mountain in Queen Maud Land.

  • Boreas Nunatak

    Boreas Nunatak (71°18′S3°57′W) is a nunatak, 220 metres (720 ft) high, nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Passat Nunatak at the mouth of Schytt Glacier in Queen Maud Land. It was discovered by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939), led…

  • Boomerang Range

    The Boomerang Range, (at (78.45°S 158.75°E), is a narrow mountain range on the western side of the Skelton Glacier and Skelton Névé, Antarctica. The range is curved like a boomerang, and extends generally north-south for about 25 km.

  • Bonnabeau Dome

    Bonnabeau Dome is a prominent ice-covered dome mountain rising on the west side of Gopher Glacier, 4 nautical miles (7 km) west of the similar-appearing Anderson Dome, in the Jones Mountains. It was mapped by the University of Minnesota Jones Mounta…

  • Bond Point

    Bond Point is a small ice-free headland on the south coast of western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the northeast side of the entrance to Kavarna Cove.

  • Bolgrad Glacier

    Bolgrad Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Болград, ‘Lednik Bolgrad’ \'led-nik 'bol-grad\) is the 7.4 km long and 5.7 km wide glacier on the west side of Owen Ridge in southern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, situated south of Brook Glaci…

  • Boil Point

    Boil Point (Bulgarian: нос Боил, ‘Nos Boil’ \'nos bo-'il\) is the point forming the west side of the entrance to Retizhe Cove on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.

  • Bogdan Ridge

    Bogdan Ridge (Rid Bogdan \'rid 'bog-dan\) is a conspicuous rocky ridge of elevation 440 m forming the northeast extremity of Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Blåskimen Island

    Blåskimen Island is a high, ice covered island about 8 nautical miles (15 km) north of Novyy Island, at the juncture of the Jelbart Ice Shelf and the Fimbul Ice Shelf, Queen Maud Land. The island rises about 300 metres (1,000 ft) above the general l…

  • Blythe Bay

    Blythe Bay (62°28′S60°20′W) is an anchorage at the southeast side of Desolation Island, lying north of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Blancmange Hill

    Blancmange Hill is an outstanding ice-free coastal landmark located 3 nautical miles (6 km) northeast of Stark Point on the east side of Croft Bay, James Ross Island.

  • Blanchard Ridge

    Blanchard Ridge is a rocky ridge, 520 metres (1,700 ft) high, at the north side of the mouth of Wiggins Glacier on Kiev Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land.

  • Blaiklock Island

    Blaiklock Island (67°33′S67°4′W) is a high and rugged, irregular-shaped island 14 km (9 mi) long, lying between Bigourdan Fjord and Bourgeois Fjord. It is separated from Pourquoi Pas Island by The Narrows and from the west coast of Graham Land by J…

  • Black Point (Livingston Island)

    Black Point is a rocky promontory of 38 hectares (94 acres) projecting 800 m northwards from the northeast coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula into Hero Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica to form the east side of the e…

  • Black Knob

    Black Knob is a descriptive name for a big black rock outcrop 0.2 nautical miles (0.4 km) west of Twin Crater on Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island. It is located north of McMurdo Station.

  • Bistra Glacier

    Bistra Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Бистра, ‘Lednik Bistra’ \'led-nik 'bis-tra\) is the 1.75 km long and 750 m wide glacier on the northwest side of Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Birthday Point

    Birthday Point (71°26′S169°24′E) is a bold, rocky headland which separates Pressure Bay and Berg Bay on the north coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

  • Binn Peak

    Binn Peak is the conspicuous rocky peak rising to 400 m above Miers Bluff at the southwest extremity of Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

  • Bindschadler Ice Stream

    Bindschadler Ice Stream (81°00′S142°00′W) is an ice stream between Siple Dome and MacAyeal Ice Stream. It is one of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf. The ice streams were investigated and mapped by U.S.

  • Bilyar Point

    Bilyar Point (Bulgarian: нос Биляр, ‘Nos Bilyar’ \'nos bi-'lyar\) is a rounded ice-free point on the north coast of western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting 350 m into Barclay Bay.

  • Bigourdan Fjord

    Bigourdan Fjord is a sound, 12 miles (19 km) long in an east-west direction and averaging 2 miles (3 km) wide, lying between Pourquoi Pas Island and the southwest part of Arrowsmith Peninsula, along the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered b…

  • Bezbog Peak, Antarctica

    Bezbog Peak (Bulgarian: Връх Безбог, Vrah Bezbog \'vr&h bez-'bog\) is the rocky peak rising to 950 m in the north extremity of Kondofrey Heights on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.

  • Betzel Cove

    Betzel Cove is a cove in Wylie Bay, located east-northeast of Dream Island. It was named for Alfred P. (Buzz) Betzel, who was Ocean Projects Manager for the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs 1974–86, and liaison in scheduling U.…

  • Betekhtin Range

    The Betekhtin Range (71°54′S11°32′E) is a mountain range about 14 miles (23 km) long, forming the southern arm of the Humboldt Mountains in Queen Maud Land. It was discovered and plotted from air photos by the Third German Antarctic Expedition, 193…

  • Betbeder Islands

    The Betbeder Islands (65°15′S65°3′W) are a group of small islands and rocks in the southwest part of the Wilhelm Archipelago, 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of Cape Tuxen.

  • Bertrand Ice Piedmont

    Bertrand Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont about 11 nautical miles (20 km) long and from 3 to 5 nautical miles (6 to 9 km) wide, lying between Rymill Bay and Mikkelsen Bay on the Fallières Coast of Graham Land.

  • Bertrab Nunatak

    Bertrab Nunatak is a nunatak on the southern side of Lerchenfeld Glacier and about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west-south-west of the Littlewood Nunataks.