Adelaide Anchorage
Adelaide Anchorage (67°47′S68°57′W) is an area of safe anchorage lying west of Avian Island, off the south end of Adelaide Island. It is the anchorage normally used by ships visiting Adelaide research station.
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Adare Saddle is a saddle at about 900 metres (3,000 ft), situated at the junction of Adare Peninsula and the Admiralty Mountains, and at the junction of Newnes Glacier and Moubray Glacier which fall steeply from it. Named by the New Zealand Geologic…
Adams Rocks
Adams Rocks (76°14′S145°39′W) is a pair of large rock outcrops that overlook the inner part of Block Bay from northward, located 11 kilometres (7 mi) west of Mount June, Phillips Mountains, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United St…
Adams Ridge
Adams Ridge (71°0′S162°23′E) is a sharp-crested rock ridge, 4 miles (6 km) long and rising to 800 metres (2,625 ft), forming a part of the west margin of Bowers Mountains just south of where Sheehan Glacier enters Rennick Glacier.
Adams Nunatak
Adams Nunatak (71°44′S68°34′W) is a nunatak on the south side of Neptune Glacier, 6 miles (10 km) west of Cannonball Cliffs, and lies about 7.4 miles (12 km) inland from George VI Sound in eastern Alexander Island, Antarctica. Mapped by Directorate…
Adams Mountains
The Adams Mountains (84°30′S166°20′E) are a small but well defined group of mountains in Queen Alexandra Range, bounded by the Beardmore, Berwick, Moody and Bingley Glaciers. Discovered by British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09) and named Adams Moun…
Adams Fjord
Adams Fjord, also variously known as Bukhta Semerka, Bukhta Semyorka or Seven Bay, is a fjord about 13 miles (21 km) long in the northeast part of Amundsen Bay, just south of Mount Riiser-Larsen. Photographed and mapped from ANARE (Australian Nation…
Adams Bluff
Adams Bluff (82°9′S159°55′E) is a bluff standing 5 miles (8 km) north of Peters Peak in the Holyoake Range of the Churchill Mountains. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960–62. Name…
Active Sound
Active Sound (63°25′S56°10′W) is a sound, averaging 2 miles (3 km) wide, extending in an east-northeast direction from Antarctic Sound and joining the Firth of Tay with which it separates Joinville and Dundee Islands. Discovered in 1892–93 by Capta…
Active Reef
Active Reef is an isolated reef lying in the Firth of Tay, just off the north coast of Dundee Island.
Acosta Glacier
Acosta Glacier (71°58′S100°55′W) is a glacier about 2 miles (3 km) long flowing north from Thurstoan Island just east of Dyer Point in Antarctica. . It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Alex V. Acosta of the Uni…
Ackroyd Point
Ackroyd Point (70°46′S166°47′E) is a point situated just east of O'Hara Glacier along the south side of the inner portion of Yule Bay, on the north coast of Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy …
Ackley Point
Ackley Point (77°47′S166°55′E) is an ice-covered point 1 mile (2 km) southeast of Cone Hill on the east side of Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 2000 after Stephen F. Ackley, Snow and Ice…
Ackerman Ridge
Ackerman Ridge (86°34′S147°30′W) is a prominent rock ridge forming the northwest extremity of the La Gorce Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered and roughly mapped in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under…
Achaean Range
Achaean Range (64°30′S63°38′W) is a mountain range rising to 1,370 metres (4,495 ft) in the central part of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago. It is bounded on the east by Iliad Glacier and Trojan Range and on the west by Marr Ice Piedmont, a…
Academia Peak
Academia Peak (Vrah Akademiya \'vr&h a-ka-'de-mi-ya\) is a peak rising to approximately 1,130 m in the Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island, Antarctica.
Abus Valley
Abus Valley (79°53′S155°5′E) is an ice-free valley 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Turnstile Ridge at the north end of Britannia Range. Named in association with Britannia by a University of Waikato (New Zealand) geological party, 1978–79, led by M.J. …
Abrupt Point
Abrupt Point (66°54′S56°42′E), also known as Brattodden, is a rocky point 4.8 kilometres (3 mi) southwest of Patricia Islands, on the west side of Edward VIII Bay. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen E…
Abrupt Island
Abrupt Island, also known as Brattöy, is an island 0.8 kilometres (0.5 mi) across, lying 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) east of Lang Island, east of the Øygarden Group and Edward VIII Bay. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the L…
Abolin Rock
Abolin Rock (71°50′S11°16′E), also known as Skala Abolina, is a large rock outcrop lying 1 mile (2 km) west of the north end of Vindegga Spur in the Liebknecht Range, Humboldt Mountains, in Queen Maud Land. Discovered and plotted from air photos by…
Abernethy Flats
Abernethy Flats is a gravel plain cut by braided streams at the head of Brandy Bay, James Ross Island.
Abercrombie Crests
Abercrombie Crests are a cluster of rock summits rising to 1,259 metres (4,130 ft) in the north part of Darley Hills, Churchill Mountains, 9 miles (14 km) south-southeast of Mount Deleon. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) afte…
Abendroth Peak
Abendroth Peak (71°5′S62°0′W) is a peak 4 miles (6 km) northeast of Stockton Peak on the divide between the Murrish and Gain Glaciers in Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Ernst K.
Abele Nunatak
Abele Nunatak (76°18′S143°15′W) is a nunatak lying 2 miles (3 km) east of Hutcheson Nunataks at the head of Balchen Glacier, in Marie Byrd Land. It was mapped using surveys made by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and U.S. Navy aerial pho…
Abel Nunatak
Abel Nunatak (63°33′S57°41′W) is the easternmost of two isolated nunataks on the south side of Broad Valley, Trinity Peninsula.
Abbey Nunatak
Abbey Nunatak (85°37′S134°43′W) is a nunatak 2 miles (3 km) southeast of Penrod Nunatak, lying at the west side of Reedy Glacier just north of the mouth of Kansas Glacier. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S.
Aaron Glacier
Aaron Glacier (85°08′S90°40′W) is a 4-mile (6.4 km) long Antarctic glacier which drains between the Janulis Spur and the Gray Spur in the Thiel Mountains. The name was proposed by Peter Bermel and Arthur B. Ford, co-leaders of the U.S. Geological S…
Aagaard Glacier
Aagaard Glacier (66°46′S64°31′W), also known as Glaciar Alderete, is a 8-mile (13 km) long Antarctic glacier which lies close to the east of Gould Glacier and flows in a southerly direction into Mill Inlet, on the east coast of Graham Land.
Thor Island (Antarctica)
Thor Island (64°33'S 62°0'W) is the largest of a group of small islands lying at the east side of Foyn Harbor in Wilhelmina Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. The island was named South Thor Island by whalers in 1921-22 because the whaling fact…
Mount Woods
Mount Woods is a bare, ridge-like mountain in Antarctica, 1,170 m, standing 4.5 nautical miles (8 km) northeast of O'Connell Nunatak in Anderson Hills in central Patuxent Range, Pensacola Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geological Surv…
Mount Wood (Palmer Land)
Mount Wood (74°51'S 64°7'W) is a mountain, 1,230 m, standing west of Gardner Inlet and 24 km (15 mi) west of Mount Austin on the east coast of Palmer Land. Discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) 1947-48, under Ronne, who named …
Mount Ptolemy (Antarctica)
Mount Ptolemy (68°33'S 65°58'W) is an isolated block mountain with four main summits, the highest rising to 1,370 meters. It lies close north of the Traffic Circle on the northwestern side of Mercator Ice Piedmont, Antarctic Peninsula. First observe…
Jagged Island (South Shetland Islands)
Jagged Island (61°54'S 58°29'W) is a rocky island lying 2.5 miles (4 km) north-northwest of Round Point, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
Irving Glacier (Antarctica)
Irving Glacier (76°13'S 160°16'E) is a glacier that flows northwest between the Coombs Hills and Wyandot Ridge to enter Odell Glacier, in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named in association with nearby Wyandot Ridge after Capt…
Galten Islands
The Galten Islands are a small group of islands in the eastern part of Magnet Bay, Antarctica, 19 kilometres (10 nmi) west of Cape Davis. They were mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1…
Forbes Glacier (Graham Land)
Forbes Glacier is a glacier which flows west into the northeast corner of Square Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It is 10 nautical miles (19 km) long, 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide in its central part, and narrows to 2 nautical mil…