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  • Piggott Peninsula

    Piggott Peninsula is a broad snow-covered peninsula between New Bedford Inlet and Wright Inlet on Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land, bounded to the west by Bryan Glacier and Swann Glacier. The feature was first seen from the air and photographed by the Un…

  • Pidgeon Island

    Pidgeon Island is a rocky Antarctic island, a mile long, between Midgley Island and Mitchell Peninsula in the Windmill Islands. It was first mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948. It was named…

  • Phelps Rock

    Phelps Rock is an insular rock rising 10 m above sea level southwest of Hugo Island, in the west approaches to French Passage, Wilhelm Archipelago. The rock was charted by a Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit from HMS Protector, 1966-67. Named by U…

  • Peters Peak

    Peters Peak is a snow-covered peak, 2,220 m, standing 4 nautical miles (7 km) north of Melrose Peak in the central part of Holyoake Range. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960-62. N…

  • Peralta Rocks

    Peralta Rocks is a group of about 8 small rocks covering an area 4 nautical miles (7 km) by 2 nautical miles (3.7 km), lying 7 nautical miles (13 km) north of Cape Ducorps, Trinity Peninsula.

  • Per Nunatak

    Per Nunatak is a nunatak lying 4 nautical miles (7 km) northeast of Larsen Cliffs in the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains, Queen Maud Land.

  • Penola Island

    Penola Island is a small island in Sherratt Bay lying close off the south coast of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands.

  • Penney Bay

    Penney Bay is a large bay extending from Robinson Ridge to Browning Peninsula, at the eastern side of the Windmill Islands. First mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy (USN) OpHjp, 1946-47. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN…

  • Peake-Jones Rock

    Peake-Jones Rock is a low, bean-shaped rock lying just off the coast and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of Ring Rock in Holme Bay, Mac. Robertson Land. The rock was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen…

  • Pawley Nunataks

    Pawley Nunataks is a line of four nunataks on the east side of Mount Allan, Traverse Mountains, on the Rymill Coast, Palmer Land. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1977 after Michael R.

  • Paulding Bay

    Paulding Bay is a bay along the coast of Antarctica just west of Clark Point. The outer portions of the bay are bounded by the Moscow University Ice Shelf and the Voyeykov Ice Shelf. It was mapped by G.D. Blodgett (1955) from aerial photographs obta…

  • Papiya Nunatak

    Papiya Nunatak (Bulgarian: нунатак Папия, ‘Nunatak Papiya’ \'nu-na-tak pa-'pi-ya\) is the rocky hill rising to 550 m in the south foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, north of the terminus of Drygalski Glaci…

  • Panter Ridge

    Panter Ridge is a solitary ridge 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) long in the south part of Kyle Hills, Ross Island. The feature rises to 800 m between Slattery Peak and Detrick Peak. At the suggestion of P.R. Kyle, named by Advisory Committee on Antarct…

  • Painted Peak (Russet Hills)

    Painted Peak is a peak rising from the north part of Russet Hills in the Gallipoli Heights, Freyberg Mountains. Descriptively named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) on the proposal of P.J.

  • Paal Harbour

    Paal Harbour is a small bay 0.5 miles (0.8 km) south of Borge Bay along the east side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.

  • Oyayubi Island

    Oyayubi Island is a narrow rock island 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) long. It lies close off Langhovde Hills, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Mount Choto, in eastern Lutzow-Holm Bay.

  • Ovech Glacier

    Ovech Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Овеч, ‘Lednik Ovech’ \'led-nik 'o-vech\) is a 3.5 km long glacier on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands draining the southeast slopes of Imeon Range southeast of Drinov Peak and east of Popovo Saddle and Sevlievski…

  • Osuga Glacier

    Osuga Glacier is a tributary glacier flowing northeast to Trafalgar Glacier just east of Mount Burton, in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by…

  • Oskeladden Rock

    Oskeladden Rock is a rock lying 0.9 nautical miles (1.7 km) south of Pal Rock in the Arkticheskiy Institut Rocks, at the northwest extremity of the Wohlthat Mountains of Queen Maud Land.

  • Orr Glacier

    Orr Glacier is a tributary glacier which drains the large cirque between Mounts Moody and Bernstein in the Lanterman Range, Bowers Mountains, and flows west into Rennick Glacier. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys a…

  • Organ Pipe Peaks

    Organ Pipe Peaks is a row of aiguille type rock peaks, 7 nautical miles (13 km) long, standing just north of Mount Harkness and east of Scott Glacier in the Gothic Mountains.

  • Onnum Valley

    Onnum Valley is an ice-free valley between Derrick Peak and Onnum Ridge in Britannia Range. Named in association with Onnum Ridge by a University of Waikato (N.Z.) geological party, 1978–79, led by M.J.

  • Ongulgalten Island

    Ongulgalten Island (69°4′S39°36′E) is the northernmost of three aligned islands lying 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of the Te Islands, at the south end of the Flatvaer Islands.

  • Oldroyd Island

    Oldroyd Island is a small island 0.2 nautical miles (0.4 km) northwest of Magnetic Island, lying off the Vestfold Hills in the east part of Prydz Bay. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-3…

  • Ograzhden Cove

    Ograzhden Cove (Bulgarian: залив Огражден, ‘Zaliv Ograzhden’ \'za-liv o-'grazh-den\) is the 680 m wide cove indenting for 550 m the northwest coast of Ray Promontory, part of Svishtov Cove in Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland …

  • Odom Inlet

    Odom Inlet (71°30′S61°20′W) is an ice-filled inlet 9 miles long, between Cape Howard and Cape MacDonald along the east coast of Palmer Land.

  • O'Brien Peak

    O'Brien Peak (85°28′S156°42′W) is a rock peak, 670 m, standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) west of the north extremity of Medina Peaks, along the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party …

  • Novyy Island

    Novyy Island is the larger and southern island of two similar ice covered features that serve to delimit the Jelbart and Fimbul Ice Shelves, on the coast of Queen Maud Land. The summit of this feature rises about 250 m above the surrounding ice shel…

  • Nostoc Lake

    Nostoc Lake is a lake lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) southwest of Mount Provender in the west part of the Shackleton Range.

  • Nevskiye Nunataks

    Nevskiye Nunataks is a group of scattered nunataks comprising the Sorensen Nunataks and Hemmestad Nunataks in the Drygalski Mountains, Queen Maud Land.