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Mount Guernsey
Mount Guernsey (Ile Guernesey) is an isolated, mainly ice-covered 1,250 m Antarctic Peninsula mountain 6 mi north of Mount Edgell, named in 1909 by Charcot's French Antarctic Expedition after the island of Guernsey.
Mount Kirkwood
Mount Kirkwood (Monte David, Monte Goyena) is a 460 m mountain 3 mi west of Entrance Point on southern Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica; charted 1828-31 by Foster, named 1950 for Cdr. Henry Kirkwood, RN.
Mount Monique
Mount Monique, also monte Monique or monte Mónica, is a roughly 600 m mountain on the north coast of Charcot Island, Antarctica, discovered 11 January 1910 by Charcot's French Antarctic Expedition and named for his daughter Monique Charcot.
Mount Paris
Mount Paris is a mountain rising to about 2,800 m in the northern Rouen Mountains, west of the Roberts Ice Piedmont in northern Alexander Island, Antarctica.
Mount Percy
Mount Percy, Antarctic mountain on Joinville Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, 765 m with twin peaks; named by James Clark Ross in 1842 for Rear Admiral Josceline Percy; distinct from Mount Percy in New Zealand and the Kalgoorlie gold mine.
Mount Pond
Mount Pond, also called Monte Campbell, is the 540 m highest point of Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, mapped by Foster in 1829 and named for John Pond, Astronomer Royal 1811–35.
Mount Robertson
Mount Robertson (Robertson, Mount) is a roughly 1,650 m Antarctic mountain in the Latady Mountains, Orville Coast, at about 74°41'S 64°14'W, named in 1947 for RARE aviation mechanic James B. Robertson; distinct from Mac Robertson Land and Mount Robinson, Victoria Land.
Mount Sullivan
Mount Sullivan is a 2,070 m mountain in Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, at about 69°39′S 63°49′W; distinct from Sullivan Heights and Sullivan Nunataks, named for other Sullivans.
Mount Tenniel
Mount Tenniel is a mountain, 1,633 m high, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, at 70°20′S 62°48′W, forming the northern wall of Clifford Glacier.
Needle Peak
Needle Peak is a 300 m peak on the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, on the west side of Brunow Bay.
Osterrieth Range
The Osterrieth Range is a mountain range extending northeast to southwest along the southeast coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula.
Pensacola Mountains
Pensacola Mountains: Antarctic mountain group at the Weddell Sea end of the Transantarctic Mountains, 540 km long, rising to 2135 m at Mackin Table; discovered 1956, named for Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.
Pleiades, The
The Pleiades is a Quaternary volcanic complex in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, with about 20 scoria cones and domes rising to 3,040 m at Mount Atlas.
Prince Albert Mountains
Prince Albert Mountains, a major mountain group over 200 mi long in Victoria Land, Antarctica, part of the Transantarctic Mountains between the Priestley and Ferrar glaciers; discovered by James Clark Ross in 1841 and named for Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort.
Queen Fabiola Mountains
Queen Fabiola Mountains (Yamato Sanmyaku, やまと山脈), a 50 km chain of seven massifs in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica, discovered by Belgium's 1960 expedition and famed for the Yamato meteorite ice fields.
Rouen Mountains
Rouen Mountains (Montes Rouen) are a c. 2,800 m mountain range in northern Alexander Island, Antarctica, extending 35 miles NW-SE from Mount Bayonne to Mount Cupola; named by Charcot in 1908-10 after Rouen, France.
Royal Society Range
The Royal Society Range is a mountain range in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, part of the Transantarctic Mountains on the western side of McMurdo Sound.
Sabrina Coast
Sabrina Coast: coast of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, between Cape Waldron (115°05'E) and Cape Southard (122°04'E), named after John Balleny's ship Sabrina, lost in 1839; near Totten Glacier.
Scott Mountains
Scott Mountains: isolated peaks south of Amundsen Bay, Enderby Land, East Antarctica (67°30'S, 50°30'E), discovered 13 January 1930 by Mawson's BANZARE as Scott Range, named for Captain Robert F. Scott; distinct from a California range of the same name.
Seal Nunataks
Seal Nunataks: chain of 16 volcanic nunataks on the Larsen Ice Shelf, east Antarctic Peninsula, discovered by Larsen in 1893; post-subduction alkali basalt vents with reported historical activity.
Shackleton Range
Shackleton Range (Shackletonkjeda): east-west mountain block in southern Coats Land, East Antarctica, between Slessor and Recovery glaciers, 240 km long, rising to 1,875 m at Holmes Summit; a truncated Pan-African orogen uplifted by faulting and glacial erosion.
Solvay Mountains
The Solvay Mountains are a mountain group in southern Brabant Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, rising to 1,590 m at Cook Summit and named for expedition patron Ernest Solvay.
Sweeney Mountains
Sweeney Mountains: mountain group about 40 mi long in eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, 30 mi north of the Hauberg Mountains at 75°06'S 69°15'W. Discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition 1947-48 and named for Mrs. Edward C. Sweeney.
Ternyck Needle
Ternyck Needle (Aiguille Ternyck) is a nunatak peak east of Martel Inlet, Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands; charted by Charcot's 1908-10 French expedition, first climbed by FIDS in 1949.
Terrain features of Antarctica
Terrain features of Antarctica surveys its mountain ranges, nunataks, and ice-free valleys, from the 3200 km Transantarctic Mountains to Mt Vinson, 4892 m, and the ice-buried Gamburtsev range.
Theodolite Hill
Theodolite Hill is a 680 m (US record; UK record 775 m) hill in northeast Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica, at the SE corner of a plateau 5 mi west of Duse Bay, named by FIDS in 1946 as a theodolite survey station.
Vauréal Peak
Vauréal Peak (Cap Vauréal) is a roughly 200 m rocky peak at the eastern entrance to Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, named by Charcot's 1908-10 expedition, with a Southern Giant Petrel colony and Oligocene-Eocene geology.
Wensleydale Beacon
Wensleydale Beacon is a 110 m hill just north of Fumarole Bay on the west side of Port Foster, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, at 62°57′S 60°42′W, with variant name Wensley Beacon.