Borchgrevink Glacier is a large glacier in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land, draining south between Malta Plateau and Daniell Peninsula, and thence projecting into Glacier Strait, Ross Sea, as a floating glacier tongue, the Borchgrevink Glacier Tongue, just south of Cape Jones. It was named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1957–58, for Carsten Borchgrevink, leader of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900. Borchgrevink visited the area in February 1900 and first observed the seaward portion of the glacier.
Explorers Range is a large mountain range in the Bowers Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica, extending from Mount Bruce in the north to Carryer Glacier and McLin Glacier in the south. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) for the northern party of New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1963–64, whose members carried out a topographical and geological survey of the area. The names of several party members are assigned to features in and about this range. All of the geographical features listed below lie situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.
Astro Glacier is a glacier in Antarctica, between the Turner Hills and Tricorn Peak in the Miller Range, flowing northeast into the Marsh Glacier. It was seen by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–62) and so named because an astronomical station was set up on the bluff at the mouth of the glacier in December 1961.
Amos Glacier is a 3-nautical-mile (6 km) long glacier that flows southeast from Bettle Peak to a juncture with the Blue Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named in 1992 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Larry Leon Amos, a civil engineer with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and a member of the USGS two man astronomic surveying team to South Pole Station and Byrd Station in the 1969–70 field season. Among other work, the team established the position of the Geographic South Pole and established a tie to the Byrd Ice Strain net which had been under study for several years.
Amphitheatre Glacier is a moraine-covered glacier that flows north from The Amphitheatre into Roaring Valley, in the Royal Society Range of Antarctica. It was named by a New Zealand Geographical Society field party in the area, 1977–78, in association with The Amphitheatre.
Blessing Bluff is a prominent rock bluff that marks the eastern end of Staeffler Ridge and overlooks Wilson Piedmont Glacier. It stands 6.5 nautical miles (12 km) west of Spike Cape, Victoria Land. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Commander George R. Blessing, U.S. Navy, Officer-in-Charge of the Naval Support Force winter-over detachment at McMurdo Station in 1973.
Boomerang Glacier is a gently curving glacier, 10 nautical miles (19 km) long, draining southward from Mount Dickason in the Deep Freeze Range to enter Browning Pass, at the north side of the Nansen Ice Sheet in Victoria Land. It was discovered by the Northern Party of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, and so named by them because of its boomerang-like shape.
Cassini Glacier is a steep glacier between Goat Mountain and Bonne Glacier, descending northwest from Hobbs Ridge into Blue Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. One of a group of names in the area associated with surveying applied in 1993 by the New Zealand Geographic Board, it was named from the Cassini map projection, a cylindrical projection in which the cylinder is at right angles to the axis of the globe.
Catacomb Hill is a prominent rock peak, 1,430 metres (4,700 ft) high, on the ridge that borders the east side of the head of Blue Glacier, in Victoria Land. The New Zealand Blue Glacier Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956–58) established a survey station on its summit in December 1957. They gave it this descriptive name from the spectacular cavernous weathering occurring in the granite of the peak, suggestive of catacombs.
Craw Ridge is a prominent ridge that trends northeast from Mount Lister along the south side of Lister Glacier, in the Royal Society Range, Victoria Land. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee after D. Craw, a member of a 1980–81 New Zealand Antarctic Research Program geological party that reached 3,700 metres (12,100 ft) on Mount Lister by way of this ridge.
Mount Janus is a bifurcated peak rising to 2,420 metres (7,940 ft) at the north side of the head of Montigny Glacier in the Bowers Mountains of Antarctica. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee on the proposal of geologist R.A. Cooper, leader of a New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme geological party to the area, 1981–82, after Janus, the deity of portals in Roman mythology, symbolized as having two faces. The topographical feature lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.
Stoner Peak is a distinctive peak, 1,300 m, surmounting the east extremity of the ridge between Covert Glacier and Spring Glacier and forming its highest point, in northeast Royal Society Range, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after James E. Stoner, cartographer, United States Geological Survey (USGS); active in geodetic control planning and data reduction in USGS from 1981; member of USGS geodetic control teams in McMurdo Dry Valleys during the 1986–87 and 1989–90 field seasons; team leader, 1989–90, with additional control work in remote sites working from U.S. icebreakers.
Mount Draeger is a mountain, 1,690 metres (5,540 ft) high, in the northwest part of the Posey Range, Bowers Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The mountain overlooks from the east the junction of Smithson Glacier with the Graveson Glacier. The topographical feature was first mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–62, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for chief radioman Ernest J. Draeger, U.S. Navy, a member of the winter party at McMurdo Station, Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island, in 1967. The mountain lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.
Pearsall Ridge is a ridge, for the most part ice-covered, which extends east-northeast from Royal Society Range between Descent Pass and Covert Glacier, in Victoria Land. Named in 1992 by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Richard A. Pearsall, who was a cartographer, member of the United State Geological Survey (USGS) geodetic control party to the Ellsworth Mountains in the 1979-80 season, and who contributed additional work during the season at South Pole Station, determining the true position of the Geographic South Pole.
Hallam Peak is a distinctive rock peak in the Kukri Hills of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The peak rises to 900 metres (3,000 ft) between the heads of Von Guerard Glacier and Aiken Glacier and provides an unobstructed view of the Lake Fryxell locality of Taylor Valley. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1997 after Dr. Cheryl A. Hallam, a geographer with the United States Geological Survey who specialized in geographic information systems, and who worked four summer seasons in Antarctica, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97 and 1999–00.
Mills Peak is a sharp peak in the Deep Freeze Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It rises to 1,420 metres (4,660 ft) along the west side of Campbell Glacier between Mount Queensland and the terminus of Bates Glacier. Mills Peak was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1955–63, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Peter J. Mills, a geologist at McMurdo Station in the 1965–66 season.
Lashly Glacier is a short, broad glacier in Oates Land, Antarctica, lying between the Lashly Mountains on the west and Tabular Mountain and Mount Feather on the east, flowing south into The Portal, in Victoria Land. It was so named by the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956–58) for its proximity to the Lashly Mountains.
The Lashly Mountains are a small group of mountains, the most prominent at 2,550 metres (8,370 ft) being Mount Crean, standing south of the head of Taylor Glacier and west of Lashly Glacier, in Oates Land, Antarctica. They were discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for William Lashly, a member of the party which explored this area.
Mount Keith is a mountain, (1,530 m), surmounting the east end of the ridge between Rastorguev Glacier and Crawford Glacier in the Bowers Mountains, a major mountain range situated in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The topographical feature was first mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–65. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for John D. Keith, builder, U.S. Navy, a member of the South Pole Station party, 1965. The mountain lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.
Hooker Glacier is a glacier on the east side of the Royal Society Range, draining northeast into Blue Glacier from the slopes of Mount Hooker. It was surveyed in 1957 by the New Zealand Blue Glacier Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956–58) and named after Mount Hooker.
