Steeple Peaks ( 71°38′S67°3′W / 71.633°S 67.050°W ) is a line of five distinct peaks, the northeasternmost being Mount Ward, located on the western edge of Palmer Land, south of Conchie Glacier. The area was named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) because of a number of steeple-like features visible among the peaks.
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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 Deep Freeze Range is a rugged mountain range, over 80 nautical miles long and about 10 nautical miles wide, rising between Priestley and Campbell Glaciers in Victoria Land, Antarctica, and extending from the edge of the polar plateau to Terra Nova Bay. It is southwest of the Southern Cross Mountains, south of the Mesa Range and northeast of the Eisenhower Range of the Prince Albert Mountains.
Lillie Glacier is a large glacier in Antarctica, about 100 nautical miles long and 10 nautical miles wide. It lies between the Bowers Mountains on the west and the Concord Mountains and Anare Mountains on the east, flowing to Ob' Bay on the coast and forming the Lillie Glacier Tongue.
Tucker Glacier is a major valley glacier of Victoria Land, Antarctica, about 90 nautical miles long, flowing southeast between the Admiralty Mountains and the Victory Mountains to the Ross Sea. There is a snow saddle at the glacier's head, just west of Homerun Range, from which the Ebbe Glacier flows northwestward.
The Usarp Mountains are a major mountain range in North Victoria Land, Antarctica. They are west of the Rennick Glacier and trend north to south for about 190 kilometres (118 mi). The mountains are bounded to the north by Pryor Glacier and the Wilson Hills. They are west of the Bowers Mountains.
The Flood Range is a range of large snow-covered mountains extending in an east–west direction for about 60 nautical miles and forming a right angle with the southern end of the Ames Range in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.
The Executive Committee Range is a range consisting of five major volcanoes, which trends north-south for 50 nautical miles along the 126th meridian west, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.
Mikkelsen Bay is a bay, 15 nautical miles wide at its mouth and indenting 10 nautical miles, entered between Bertrand Ice Piedmont and Cape Berteaux along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
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.
Simpson Glacier is a glacier, 6 nautical miles, in the Admiralty Mountains, Antarctica. It flows northward to the coast between Nelson Cliff and Mount Cherry-Garrard where it forms the Simpson Glacier Tongue.
The Inland Forts are a line of peaks extending between Northwest Mountain and Saint Pauls Mountain, in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The peaks were discovered by Ervon r. Koenig and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04.
On the continent of Antarctica, the Aramis Range is the third range south in the Prince Charles Mountains, situated 11 miles southeast of the Porthos Range and extending for about 30 miles in a southwest–northeast direction. It was first visited in January 1957 by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) southern party led by W.G. Bewsher, who named it for a character in Alexandre Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers, the most popular book read on the southern journey.
Otter Highlands is a group of peaks and ridges extending northwest-southeast for 17 nautical miles from Mount Lowe to Wyeth Heights, located west of Blaiklock Glacier and forming the west end of the Shackleton Range. Surveyed by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1972 after the De Havilland Otter aircraft which supported the CTAE.
Conchie Glacier is a glacier on the west coast of Palmer Land which flows southwest into George VI Sound between the Batterbee Mountains and the Steeple Peaks. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Flight-Lieutenant Bertie J. Conchie, Royal Air Force, pilot with the British Antarctic Survey from 1969 to 1975.
Nelson Peak is a 1,605 metres (5,266 ft) peak in Antarctica, standing at the eastern end of Drury Ridge and Brown Ridge where the two ridges abut Washington Escarpment, in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains.
Gambacorta Peak is a peak 1,840 metres (6,040 ft) high, standing 4 nautical miles east of Mount Kaschak in the southern Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica.
Moubray Bay is a bay in the western Ross Sea, indenting the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, between Cape Roget and Cape Hallett. It was discovered in 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross and named by him for George H. Moubray, clerk in charge of the expedition ship Terror.
Sandau Nunatak is a coastal nunatak rising to about 400 m at the southwest end of Steeple Peaks, on the Rymill Coast, Palmer Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1966–69. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1976 after Charles L. Sandau, U.S. Navy, cook with the winter party at Palmer Station, 1973.
Steeple Point is a low ice-covered point on the west coast of Palmer Land, approximately 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) west of Sandau Nunatak of the Steeple Peaks. The point was named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in association with the Steeple Peaks.