Bertodano Bay
Bertodano Bay is a bay between Bodman Point and Cape Wiman on the north side of Seymour Island. The name appears on Argentine navy charts from 1957 and recalls J.
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Click on them to get its location and coordinatesBerry Glacier
Berry Glacier (75°S134°W) is an Antarctic glacier, about 25 miles (40 km) long and 5 miles (8 km) wide, draining north between Perry Range and Demas Range into the Getz Ice Shelf on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. This vicinity was first photographed…
Berquist Ridge
Berquist Ridge is a curving ridge, 8 nautical miles (15 km) long, trending west from its juncture with Madey Ridge in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air ph…
Beroe Hill
Beroe Hill (Halm Beroe \'h&lm be-'ro-e\) is a hill of 400 m in the southwest extremity of Gleaner Heights, Livingston Island, West Antarctica. It is surmounting Perunika Glacier to the south and Saedinenie Snowfield to the northwest.
Bernal Islands
The Bernal Islands are a group of four mainly snow-covered islands and a number of rocks lying in Crystal Sound, about 10 nautical miles (20 km) east of the south end of Lavoisier Island, Biscoe Islands. They were mapped from surveys by the Falkland…
Berg Mountains
The Berg Mountains are a mountain and two ridges in Antarctica, 14 nautical miles (26 km) south of Cape Buromskiy, Krylov Peninsula. They were photographed by U.S.
Berende Cove
Berende Cove (Bulgarian: залив Беренде, ‘Zaliv Berende’ \'za-liv be-ren-'de\) is the3.3 km wide cove indenting for 1.15 km the southwest coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Benson Point
Benson Point is the ice-free headland forming the southwest extremity of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is a northwest entrance point for Morton Strait.
Bennett Islands
The Bennett Islands (66°56′S67°40′W) are a group of islands at the southwest side of Liard Island in Hanusse Bay, extending in a southwest direction for 10 km (6 mi) off the west coast of Graham Land. The islands were sighted and sketched from the …
Bennett Bluff
Bennett Bluff is a bluff, 810 metres (2,660 ft) high, between the upper reaches of Venzke Glacier and Berry Glacier, 7 nautical miles (13 km) south-southwest of the Perry Range, in Marie Byrd Land. The bluff has prominent rock exposures on the north…
Benkovski Nunatak
Benkovski Nunatak (\ben-'kov-ski 'nu-na-tak\) is a rocky peak of elevation 450 m projecting from the ice cap of Greenwich Island in the northeast extremity of Breznik Heights. Situated 920 m west-southwest of Bogdan Ridge, and 690 m north of Parchev…
Bendida Peak
Bendida Peak (Bulgarian: връх Бендида, ‘Vrah Bendida’ \'vr&h ben-'di-da\) is the ice-covered peak rising to 1200 m in the north foothills of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.
Belgun Peak
Belgun Peak (Bulgarian: връх Белгун, ‘Vrah Belgun’ \'vr&h bel-'gun\) is the ice-covered peak with precipitous, partly ice-free west slopes, rising to 1205 m in the northwest extremity of Trakiya Heights on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic…
Belene Cove
Belene Cove (Bulgarian: залив Белене, ‘Zaliv Belene’ \'za-liv 'be-le-ne\) is the 520 m wide cove indenting for 690 m the northwest coast of Ray Promontory, part of Svishtov Cove in Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, An…
Belchin Rock
Belchin Rock (Bulgarian: скала Белчин, ‘Skala Belchin’ ska-'la bel-'chin) is a rock off the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated in Hero Bay 2.2 km (1.4 mi) northeast of Siddins Point and 2 km (1.2 mi) …
Bebresh Point
Bebresh Point (Bulgarian: нос Бебреш, ‘Nos Bebresh’ \'nos 'be-bresh\) is a point projecting 1.3 km from the northwest coast of Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica forming the north side of the entrance to Palakariya Cove and the west …
Beaver Lake (Antarctica)
Beaver Lake is a lake of smooth ice, 7 mi long and 5 mi wide, enclosed on the south and east by Flagstone Bench and Jetty Peninsula. The lake is situated at the south end of an area of rough ice (a stagnant glacier), 17 mi ESE of Aramis Range, Princ…
Beaver Glacier (Enderby Land)
Beaver Glacier is a glacier about 15 miles (24 km) long and 4 miles (6 km) wide, flowing west into Amundsen Bay between Auster Glacier and Mount Gleadell. The head of Beaver Glacier is located very close to the base of Mount King in Enderby Land.
…Bearing Island
Bearing Island (or also Direction Island) is a small antarctic island lying midway between Nansen Island and Enterprise Island in Wilhelmina Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. Bearing Island is located at (64°33′S62°2′W).
Beard Peak
Beard Peak is a peak 2,360 metres (7,740 ft) high, along the north edge of the La Gorce Mountains, standing 4 nautical miles (7 km) south of the eastern tip of Mount Mooney. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from …
Bear Peninsula
First delineated from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump in January 1947. Named by US-ACAN after the ice-ship USS Bear, flagship of the USAS, from which three reconnaissance flights were made in late February 1940, resulting in the d…
Beacon Head
Beacon Head is a small headland at the north side of the entrance to Lystad Bay on Horseshoe Island, off Graham Land.
Bazett Island
Bazett Island is a small island close south of the west end of Krogh Island, in the Biscoe Islands. It was mapped from air photos by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–57), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names …
Bay of Winds
The Bay of Winds is a coastal embayment between Cape Dovers and Avalanche Rocks in Antarctica.
Batterbee Mountains
The Batterbee Mountains are a group of prominent mountains rising to 2,200 metres (7,200 ft), which forms part of the dissected edge of Dyer Plateau overlooking George VI Sound, on the west coast of Palmer Land.
Bates Point
Bates Point (70°43′S166°47′E) is an ice-covered headland forming the north side of the entrance to Yule Bay, along the north coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The geographical feature was first mapped by the United States Geological Survey from s…
Bastien Range
The Bastien Range (78°50′S086°00′W) is an Antarctic mountain range of moderate height which extends in a NW-SE direction for about 64 kilometres (40 mi), flanking the SW side of Nimitz Glacier and the Sentinel Range, in the Ellsworth Mountains.
Basissletta
Basissletta is a small, gently sloping, ice-covered plain between Pyramiden Nunatak and Stamnen Peak, near the southwest end of Ahlmann Ridge in Queen Maud Land.
Bartrum Plateau
Bartrum Plateau is an ice-covered plateau, 11 nautical miles (20 km) long and 6 nautical miles (11 km) wide, standing west of Mount Bonaparte in the Queen Elizabeth Range.
Barren Bluff
Barren Bluff is a prominent rock bluff in the south part of the Sequence Hills along the west side of upper Rennick Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The geographical feature was so named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey …
Barison Peninsula
Barison Peninsula is the mostly ice-covered peninsula projecting 19 km in northwest direction from Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is 12 km wide between Beascochea Bay to the northeast and Leroux Bay to the southwest.
Bardarevo Hill
Bardarevo Hill (Bulgarian: Бърдаревски хълм, ‘Bardarevski Halm’ \bar-'da-rev-ski 'h&lm\) is the ice-covered hill rising to 660 m in the north part of Marescot Ridge on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.
Banzare Coast
Banzare Coast (67°S126°E), part of Wilkes Land, is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between Cape Southard, at 122°05′E, and Cape Morse, at 130°10′E. It was seen from the air by the British-Australian-New Zealand Antarctic Research Expe…
Bansko Peak
Bansko Peak (Bulgarian: Връх Банско, \'vrɣx 'banskɔ\) is a 280-metre (920 ft) rocky peak in the eastern extremity of the Delchev Ridge in the Tangra Mountains of Livingston Island.
Bankya Peak
Bankya Peak (Bulgarian: връх Банкя, ‘Vrah Bankya’ \'vr&h 'ban-kya\) is the peak rising to 840 m in Korten Ridge east of Lanchester Bay and west of Sabine Glacier on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica.
Baliza Hill
Baliza Hill is the conspicuous rocky hill rising to 40 m in the southeast extremity of Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting Menguante Cove to the north-northwest, McFarlane Strait to the northeast and east, and …