Siple Island is a 110 km (68 mi) long snow-covered island lying east of Wrigley Gulf along the Getz Ice Shelf off Bakutis Coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Its centre is located at 73°51′S125°50′W.
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 3 to 5 km wide and 24 km (15 mi) long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station (US) and Scott Base (NZ) are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula.
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.
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.
Andrews Creek is a glacial meltwater stream which flows south along the east margin of Canada Glacier into the west end of Lake Fryxell, in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land. The name was suggested by hydrologist Diane McKnight, leader of a United States Geological Survey (USGS) team which made extensive studies of the hydrology and geochemistry of streams and ponds in the Lake Fryxell basin, 1987–94. Named after USGS hydrologist Edmund Andrews, a member of the field team who studied glacier hydrology during the 1987–88 and 1991–92 summer seasons.
Bainmedart Cove is a cove about 1 nautical mile (2 km) long in eastern Radok Lake, in the Prince Charles Mountains. The cove leads to the narrow Pagodroma Gorge which joins Radok Lake and Beaver Lake. The name is a composite one made from the names of C. Bain, A. Medvecky, and J. Dart who spent a month at the cove studying the geology of the lakes area during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions Prince Charles Mountains survey in January–February, 1969.
Mount Ballou is a pinnacle-type mountain (2,900 m) which forms the south end of Pain Mesa and the north side of the entrance to Pinnacle Gap in the Mesa Range, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The mountain was first mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Commander Justin G. Ballou, U.S. Navy, officer in charge of the Detachment A winter party at McMurdo Station, 1966. The mountain lies on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.
Cape Bernacchi is a rocky cape between Bernacchi Bay and New Harbour on the coast of Victoria Land. Discovered by the Discovery expedition, 1901–04, under Scott, and named by him for Louis C. Bernacchi, physicist with the expedition.
The Chain Nunataks are a linear series of nunataks to the west of Blue Glacier, running west-northwest–east-southeast for 3.5 nautical miles (6 km) between Briggs Hill and Hannon Hill, in Victoria Land. The name is one of a group in the area associated with surveying applied in 1993 by the New Zealand Geographic Board. Named with reference to a surveyor's chain.
Evison Glacier is a small glacier draining from the south end of Molar Massif in the Bowers Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. This glacier was so named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1967–68, for F.F. Evison, New Zealand's first professor of geophysics. The glacier lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.
Flint Ridge is a north-south trending ridge with a summit elevation of 995 metres (3,260 ft) in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. On the west side of the ridge is Sagittate Hill, 850 metres (2,790 ft) tall and mostly composed of exposed rock. At the south end of the ridge sits Noxon Cliff, which trends east-west and encloses the north flank of Commonwealth Glacier, rising from 50–150 m (160–490 ft) above the glacier. On the eastern part of the cliff is Dominion Hill, a rounded rock summit rising to about 900 metres (3,000 ft) that borders the glacier where it descends southeastward into Taylor Valley.
The Fortress Rocks are a cluster of low rock summits 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) north of the summit of Observation Hill on Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island. The descriptive name was given by members of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, under Robert Falcon Scott.
Gatson Ridge is a jagged ridge, 3 nautical miles (6 km) long, that runs east from the southern part of Bowling Green Plateau in the Brown Hills of the Cook Mountains, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Karl W. Gatson of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a topographic engineer on the joint 1975–76 USGS – British Antarctic Survey project to establish control points for Landsat mosaics of Palmer Land, and to establish geodetically tied independent survey nets in the Ellsworth Mountains and Antarctic Peninsula into a worldwide reference system using Doppler satellite control.
The Granite Knolls are conspicuous rock outcrops on the northwest flank of Blue Glacier, 5 nautical miles (9 km) west of Hobbs Peak in Victoria Land, Antarctica. This descriptive name was given by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, under Robert Falcon Scott.
Hannon Hill is a bare rock hill, 1,110 metres (3,640 ft) high, on the west side of the terminus of Amos Glacier, at the juncture with Blue Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named in 1992 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Timothy J. Hannon, a cartographer with the United States Geological Survey (USGS). He was leader of the two man USGS team working jointly out of Vanda Station with a New Zealand team in the 1988–89 season to establish new geodetic controls and observe old stations in the McMurdo Dry Valleys; he relocated the position of the Geographic South Pole.
Hill Glacier is a broad glacier that drains the west-central part of Spaatz Island, Antarctica, at the south side of Ronne Entrance. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1961–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lennie J. Hill, a USGS topographic engineer who was a member of the Marie Byrd Land Survey Party, 1967–68.
Mount Steep is a mountain rising to 978 m at the east side of Lake Buddha in the Denton Hills on the Scott Coast of Antarctica It was named by New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) in 1994; the name is suggested by the steep climb of the west side of the mountain.
The Kea Nunataks are a line of several nunataks 1.2 nautical miles (2.2 km) southeast of the summit of Mount Bird, Ross Island, Antarctica. The feature trends northwest–southeast and is 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) long. This is one of several features near Mount Bird assigned the native name of a New Zealand mountain bird, in this case a kea. It was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 2000.
Rhodes Head is a prominent headland forming the extremity of McCarthy Ridge on the southeast side of Eisenhower Range, overlooking the Nansen Ice Sheet on the coast of Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1955–63. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Captain James C. Rhodes, United States Marine Corps Reserve (USMCR), an LC-130 aircraft commander with U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 for several seasons to 1967.
New Harbour is a bay about 10 miles (16 km) wide between Cape Bernacchi and Butter Point along the coast of Victoria Land, due west of Ross Island. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and so named because this new harbor was found while the Discovery was seeking the farthest possible southern anchorage along the coast of Victoria Land. The Ferrar Glacier flows into the bay, which overlooked by Mount Barnes, which sits at the eastern end of the Kukri Hills range.
