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Kemp Land
Kemp Land, also called Kemp Coast in US usage, is a coastal region of East Antarctica between Edward VIII Bay and William Scoresby Bay, named for sealing captain Peter Kemp, who sighted it in 1833.
Kemp Peninsula (landform)
Kemp Peninsula (Poluostrov Kemp) is an ice-covered peninsula, not an undersea feature, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, between Mason and Mossman Inlets; named for marine biologist Stanley W. Kemp.
Kent Rock
Kent Rock is a small island (49 m elevation) off the south western shore of Cape Barren Island, Furneaux area, Tasmania, Australia; a navigation channel beside it leads to a recognised anchorage, and it appears on chart Aus 798.
Kerguelen Islands
Kerguelen Islands (Îles Kerguelen), French sub-Antarctic archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, TAAF district; ~7,215 km², Mont Ross 1,850 m, discovered 1772, annexed 1893, station Port-aux-Français (1950), no permanent population.
Kermadec Islands
Kermadec Islands (Rangitāhua): subtropical volcanic New Zealand island group 800–1,000 km northeast of the North Island. Largest island Raoul (29 km²); 1990 no-take marine reserve of 748,000 ha; annexed 1887; research-only access.
KERTAU
Kertau (Tapkhan Peak, 塔普汗峰) is a 3,282 m ultra-prominent peak in Xinjiang, China, highest point of the Barlik/Dzungarian Gate range; possible first documented ascent by Taozhu Zhou in 2026. Distinct from Kertau, Malaysia.
Key West
Key West (Cayo Hueso) is a Florida city on the westernmost major Florida Keys island, incorporated 1828, county seat of Monroe County, population 26,444 (2020), home of the 1982 Conch Republic secession and a tropical-maritime climate with no recorded frost.
Khangar
Khangar (Hangar, Вулкан Хангар) is a 1,967 m stratovolcano with a lake-filled Holocene caldera, the southernmost volcano of Kamchatka's Sredinny Range; its VEI 6 eruption about 7,000 years ago produced the KHG marker tephra, and its last dated eruption was around 1500 CE.
Khao Phing Kan (เขาพิงกัน)
Khao Phing Kan (เขาพิงกัน), also called James Bond Island, is a twin limestone island in Phang Nga Bay, Thailand, beside the 20-metre sea stack Ko Tapu, made famous by the 1974 film The Man with the Golden Gun.
Khardung La
Khardung La is a 5,359 m pass on the Ladakh Range about 40 km from Leh, gateway to Nubra Valley and a Siachen supply route; its 5,602 m signboard and highest-motorable-road claim are disputed, with Umling La holding the record.
Kharga Oasis (الواحات الخارجة)
Kharga Oasis (الواحات الخارجة), Egypt's southernmost major Western Desert oasis, lies 200 km west of the Nile at the junction of the Darb al-Arba'in and Darb Ain Amur caravan routes, with the Persian-era Hibis Temple, Roman forts, and the Bagawat Christian necropolis.
Khasi Hills
Khasi Hills: central hill range of the Meghalaya Plateau, northeast India, between Garo and Jaintia Hills; highest point Shillong Peak (~1,960 m), home of Shillong, Sohra and Mawsynram rainfall records.
Khentii Mountains
Khentii Mountains (Хэнтийн нуруу), northern Mongolian range at the Siberian taiga-steppe boundary; Arctic-Pacific watershed of the Onon, Kherlen, and Tuul rivers, home of Burkhan Khaldun and the Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area.
Khoid Naiman Nuur
Khoid Naiman Nuur (Хойд Найман Нуур, "North Eight Lakes") is Mongolia's highest Holocene volcano, a 2,532 m basaltic pyroclastic cone (GVP 303015) near the Eight Lakes area, with undated, uncertain eruptions.
Khorat Plateau
Khorat Plateau (ที่ราบสูงโคราช), also called Isan when within Thailand, is a saucer-shaped lowland basin in northeast Thailand extending into Laos and Cambodia; Mesozoic Khorat Group rocks, Mun-Chi drainage, two basins split by the Phu Phan Range.
Khumbu Icefall
Khumbu Icefall: broken section of the Khumbu Glacier on Everest's Nepal side between Base Camp and Camp I; moves up to 1 m/day, first crossed 1952, fixed each season by SPCC Icefall Doctors; 2014 avalanche killed 16.
Khunjerab Pass (红其拉甫山口)
Khunjerab Pass (红其拉甫山口), 4,693 m, is the highest paved international border crossing, on the Karakoram Highway between Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan and China's Xinjiang; sole China–Pakistan land crossing, CPEC entry point, year-round since December 2024.
Khvoshkuh
Khvoshkuh (Khvoshkūh, Khush Kuh) names several mountains: a 2,830 m peak in Afghanistan recorded by the NGA, a 2,650 m Iranian summit, and the alternative name of Kūh-e Poshtkūh (2,575 m) in Hormozgan, Iran.
Khyber Pass (د خیبر درہ)
Khyber Pass (د خیبر درہ, Kōtal-e Ḵaybar): mountain pass on the Afghan-Pakistan border through the Safed Koh, linking Kabul and Peshawar; historic invasion and Silk Road trade route, site of the Torkham crossing and the 1925 Khyber Pass Railway.
Kialagvik
Kialagvik, also called Mount Kialagvik, is a small, poorly known glacier-mantled stratovolcano with a Holocene lava dome on the Alaska Peninsula northeast of Chiginagak; no historical eruptions, not seismically monitored, elevation about 1,575 to 1,677 m.
Kiawah Island, South Carolina
Kiawah Island is a barrier island in Charleston County, South Carolina, south of Charleston between the Stono and North Edisto Rivers. A plantation island turned resort community, it was sold in 1974 for $17.4 million and incorporated as a town in 1988.
Kii Peninsula
The Kii Peninsula (紀伊半島) is Honshu's largest peninsula, spanning Wakayama, Nara, and Mie prefectures, home to the UNESCO-listed Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes and the Kii Mountains, above the Nankai subduction zone.
Killini Oros
Killini Oros (Mount Kyllini, Ziria, Όρος Κυλλήνη) is a 2,376 m limestone mountain in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece; second highest on the peninsula, mythical birthplace of Hermes, Natura 2000 site with the Cave of Hermes.
Kimberley Plateau
The Kimberley Plateau is a sandstone upland in the far north of Western Australia, part of the Kimberley region, with deep gorges carved by its rivers.
Kimhandu
Kimhandu (Kimhondu), highest peak of Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains and the Eastern Arc chain, about 2,634-2,653 m; local name Nongwe; distinct from an 806 m hill of the same name in Singisa.
King Christian Island
King Christian Island: uninhabited island in the Sverdrup Islands, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, at 77°48′N 101°40′W off Ellef Ringnes Island; official name since 1924, mapped geologically in GSC Memoir 386, namesake of the Early Jurassic King Christian Formation.
King Christian X Land
King Christian X Land (Kong Christian X Land), East Greenland coastal region between 70°N and 76°N, named for King Christian X and first mapped by Lauge Koch's 1931–34 expedition.
King Drive
King Drive, formally Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, is a major north–south street on Chicago's South Side, renamed from South Park Way for King in 1968.
King Edward VII Land
King Edward VII Land, or Edward VII Peninsula, is an ice-covered peninsula at the NW extremity of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, at 77°40'S 155°W. Discovered by Scott's 1902 expedition and named for King Edward VII; its peninsular shape was proven by Byrd's 1933-35 and 1939-41 expeditions.
King George Island (landform)
King George Island, largest of the South Shetland Islands at 62°S 58°W near the Antarctic Peninsula, about 90 percent glaciated, discovered by William Smith in 1819, and hosting Antarctica's densest cluster of research stations.