King George Island is the largest of the South Shetland Islands, lying 120 km off the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. The island was named after King George III.
Hope Bay is a bay 3 nautical miles long and 2 nautical miles wide, indenting the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound.
The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about 30 nautical miles long and from 7 to 12 nautical miles wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula. The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld for the expedition ship Antarctic which in 1902, under the command of Carl Anton Larsen, was the first vessel to navigate it. Since 1998 cruise ships have been visiting the area.
Esperanza Base is a permanent, all-year-round Argentine research station in Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula. It is one of only two civilian settlements in Antarctica. The base's motto is Permanencia, un acto de sacrificio.
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.
Argentine Antarctica is an area on Antarctica claimed by Argentina as part of its national territory. It consists of the Antarctic Peninsula and a triangular section extending to the South Pole, delimited by the 25° West and 74° West meridians and the 60° South parallel. This region overlaps with British and Chilean claims in Antarctica. None of these claims have widespread international recognition.
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.
Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva is the most important Antarctic base of Chile. It is located at Fildes Peninsula, an ice-free area, in front of Fildes Bay, at the west end of King George Island, South Shetland Islands. Situated alongside the Escudero Station and only 200 metres (660 ft) from the Russian Bellingshausen Station, it is at an altitude of 10 metres (33 ft) above sea-level. The base is located in the Chilean commune of Antártica, which is the Antarctic territory claimed by Chile.
The Teniente Luis Carvajal Villaroel Antarctic Base is a seasonal Chilean Antarctic base on the south-west tip of Adelaide Island, in Graham Land off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The nearest land is the Magallanes – the station is in the Antarctic territory claimed by Chile.
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.
The Tabarin Peninsula is a peninsula 15 nautical miles long and 5 to 12 nautical miles wide, lying south of the trough between Hope Bay and Duse Bay and forming the east extremity of Trinity Peninsula in the Antarctic Peninsula.
Broad Valley is a descriptive name for the broad glacier-filled valley on the south side of Laclavere Plateau, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. The name was suggested by V.I. Russell of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) following his survey in 1946.
Nobby Nunatak is a nunatak, 270 m, standing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south of Lake Boeckella and 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) east of Mount Flora, at the northeast end of Antarctic Peninsula.
Pitt Point is a promontory, 90 m high, at the south side of the mouth of Victory Glacier on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula, forming the northeast side of the entrance to Chudomir Cove. The promontory was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1945, and named for K.A.J. Pitt, master of the Falkland Islands Company ship Fitzroy, 1940-46, who assisted in establishing FIDS stations, 1944-46.
Mott Snowfield is a snowfield in the northeast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica, between Laclavère Plateau and the Antarctic Sound.
Schmidt Peninsula is a small peninsula connected by a low isthmus to Cape Legoupil on the Trinity Peninsula of Antarctica.
Laclavère Plateau is a plateau, 10 nautical miles long and from 1 to 3 nautical miles wide, rising to 1,035 metres (3,396 ft) between Misty Pass and Theodolite Hill, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. The plateau rises south of Schmidt Peninsula and the Chilean scientific station, Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme.
Skomlya Hill is a rocky hill rising to 353 m at the base of a promontory that projects from Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, 5.5 km eastwards into Prince Gustav Channel and ending in View Point. Surmounting Duse Bay to the northeast and Eyrie Bay to the southwest.
Huon Bay is the bay about ´8 nautical miles wide between Cape Ducorps and Cape Legoupil, along the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica.
General Jorge Boonen Rivera Base is a small Chilean shelter located in Duse Bay, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. It is administered by the Chilean Army.
