Beta Island ( 64°19′S63°0′W / 64.317°S 63.000°W ) is a small island which lies immediately north of Kappa Island and close southwest of Alpha Island in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago. The name, derived from the second letter of the Greek alphabet, was probably given by Discovery Investigations personnel who roughly surveyed the island in 1927. The island was also surveyed by Argentine expeditions in 1942, 1943 and 1948.
Booth Island is a Y-shaped island, 5 nautical miles long and rising to 980 metres (3,220 ft) in the northeast part of the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica.
The Amundsen Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier, about 7 to 11 km wide and 150 km (80 nmi) long. It originates on the Antarctic Plateau where it drains the area to the south and west of Nilsen Plateau, then descends through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf just west of the MacDonald Nunataks.
The Scaife Mountains is a group of mountains rising west of Prehn Peninsula and between the Ketchum Glacier and Ueda Glacier, at the base of the Antarctic Peninsula.
James Ross Island is a large island off the southeast side and near the northeastern extremity of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Prince Gustav Channel. Rising to 1,630 metres (5,350 ft), it is irregularly shaped and extends 40 nautical miles in a north–south direction.
The Prince Charles Mountains are a major group of mountains in Mac. Robertson Land in Antarctica, including the Athos Range, the Porthos Range, and the Aramis Range. The highest peak is Mount Menzies, with a height of 3,228 m (10,591 ft). Other prominent peaks are Mount Izabelle and Mount Stinear. These mountains, together with other scattered peaks, form an arc about 420 km (260 mi) long, extending from the vicinity of Mount Starlight in the north to Goodspeed Nunataks in the south.
The Prince Gustav Channel is a strait about 80 nautical miles long and from 4 to 15 nautical miles wide, separating James Ross Island and Vega Island from the Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica.
Quinton Point is a point at the north side of the entrance to Perrier Bay, forming the northwest extremity of Goten Peninsula on the northwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. First charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, it was named by Charcot after Rene Quinton, French naturalist, then an assistant at the Laboratoire de Pathologie Physiologique, College de France.
The Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 metres. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some 90 nautical miles in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau.
The Duroch Islands are a group of islands and rocks which extend over an area of about 3 nautical miles, centred about 1 nautical mile off Cape Legoupil on the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. The islands are close to Chile's Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme at Cape Legoupil.
Aitkenhead Glacier is a 10 nautical miles long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, into Prince Gustav Channel.
Casey Inlet is an ice-filled inlet at the terminus of Casey Glacier, between Miller Point and Cape Walcott, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica.
The Cayley Glacier is a glacier flowing northwest into the south side of Brialmont Cove, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Channel Glacier is a through glacier, 1.5 nautical miles (3 km), extending in an east-west direction across Wiencke Island, between Nipple Peak and Wall Range, in the Palmer Archipelago. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache 1897–99. The name appears on a chart based on a 1927 survey by DI personnel on the Discovery.
West Melchior Islands is a group of small ice-covered islands and rocks which lie west of The Sound in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago. The islands east of The Sound are called East Melchior Islands. The name was probably given by DI personnel who roughly surveyed these islands in 1927. The islands were surveyed by Argentine expeditions in 1942, 1943 and 1948.
Croft Bay is a bay which indents the north-central side of James Ross Island and forms the southern part of Herbert Sound, south of the northeastern end of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Epsilon Island in the Antarctic is a small island lying between Alpha Island and the southern extremity of Lambda Island in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago. The island was roughly surveyed by Discovery Investigations personnel in 1927. The name, derived from epsilon, the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, appears to have been first used on a 1946 Argentine government chart following surveys of the Melchior Islands by Argentine expeditions in 1942 and 1943.
Theta Islands are several small islands and rocks which lie close west of Kappa Island at the west extremity of the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago. The islands were roughly charted by Discovery Investigations personnel in 1927. The name, derived from the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, appears to have been first used on a 1946 Argentine government chart following surveys of the Melchior Islands by Argentine expeditions in 1942 and 1943.
Kappa Island is an island, nearly 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) long, lying immediately south of Beta Island and close east of the Theta Islands in the Melchior Islands of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. The name, derived from kappa, the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet, probably was given by Discovery Investigations personnel who roughly surveyed the island in 1927. The island was resurveyed by Argentine expeditions in 1942, 1943 and 1948. The island's name in Spanish is Isla Primer Teniente López.
Huon Bay is the bay about ´8 nautical miles wide between Cape Ducorps and Cape Legoupil, along the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica.
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