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| x Bouvet Island |
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Antarctica |
Bouvet Island (Norwegian: Bouvetøya) is an uninhabited Antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,525 km south-southwest of South Africa. It is a dependent territory of Norway and, lying north of 60°S latitude, is not subject to the...
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-54.4333 | 3.4 |
| Norway | |||||
| x Heard Island and McDonald Islands |
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Antarctica |
The Heard Island and McDonald Islands (abbreviated as HIMI) are an Australian external territory and volcanic group of barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall size is 372 square...
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-53 | 73.5 |
| Australia | |||||
| x French Southern Territories |
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Antarctica |
The French Southern and Antarctic Lands (French: Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, abbreviated TAAF), full name Territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (French: Territoire des Terres australes et antarctiques françaises),...
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| Overseas France | |||||
| France | |||||
| x Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme |
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Antarctica |
Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, also Base Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, or shortly Bernardo O'Higgins, named after Bernardo O'Higgins is a permanently staffed Chilean base in Antarctica and the capital of Antártica...
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-63.32111 | -57.90083 |
| x Lake Vostok |
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Antarctica |
Lake Vostok (Russian: озеро Восток, lit. "Lake East") is the largest of more than 140 sub-glacial lakes and was recently drilled into by Russian scientists. The overlying ice provides a continuous paleoclimatic record of 400,000 years, although the...
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-77 | 105 |
| x Lake Vida |
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Antarctica |
Lake Vida is a hypersaline lake in Victoria Valley, the northernmost of the large McMurdo Dry Valleys, on the continent of Antarctica. It is isolated under year-round ice cover, and is considerably more saline than seawater. It came to public...
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-77.38333 | 161.93333 |
| x Sovetskaya | Antarctica |
Sovetskaya Lake is a liquid subglacial lake found buried under the Antarctic ice sheet, 2 kilometres (6,600 ft) below Sovetskaya Research Station. It covers about 1,600 square kilometres (620 sq mi).
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| x 90 Degrees East | Antarctica |
90 Degrees East, also known as 90°E Lake, is a lake in Antarctica. With a surface area of about 2,000 square kilometres (770 sq mi), it is the second-largest known subglacial lake in Antarctica, after Lake Vostok. 90 Degrees East was discovered in...
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-77.4 | 90 | |
| x South Pole |
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Antarctica |
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite...
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-90 | 0 |
| x Mount Mills | Antarctica |
Mount Mills may refer to:
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-85.2 | 165.2833 | |
| x Mount Ajax | Antarctica |
Mount Ajax is a mountain rising 1.5 km (1 mi) WSW of Mount Royalist in the Admiralty Mountains, in East Antarctica. Named by the New Zealand GSAE, 1957–58, after HMNZS Ajax. The mountain is one of several in this area named for New Zealand ships.
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-71.8 | 168.45 | |
| x Mount Discovery |
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Antarctica |
Mount Discovery is a conspicuous, isolated stratovolcano, lying at the head of McMurdo Sound and east of Koettlitz Glacier, overlooking the NW portion of the Ross Ice Shelf. It forms the center of a three-armed mass of which Brown Peninsula is one...
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-78.3667 | 165.0167 |
| x Aheloy Nunatak |
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Antarctica |
Aheloy Nunatak (Ахелойски Нунатак, Aheloyski Nunatak, [axɛˈlɔjski ˈnunatak]) is a rocky 390m peak in the upper Huron Glacier in Livingston Island. The peak forms the northeast extremity of a minor ridge which also features Erma Knoll and Lozen...
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-62.63981 | -60.13153 |
| x Mount Murphy |
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Antarctica |
Mount Murphy is a massive, snow-covered and highly eroded shield volcano with steep, rocky slopes. It is directly south of Bear Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land. The mountain is bounded by the Smith, Pope and Haynes Glaciers.
Delineated from aerial...
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-75.3 | -110.7 |
| x Mount Berlin |
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Antarctica |
Mount Berlin is the sixth highest volcano in Antarctica, located 16 km west of Mount Moulton in Marie Byrd Land near the eastern coast of the Ross Sea. It is composed of two coalesced shield volcanoes: Marren Peak and Berlin Crater. The volcanic...
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-76.05 | 135.8667 |
| x Mount Amundsen | Antarctica |
Mount Amundsen is a nunatak lying east of Denman Glacier, about 11 statute miles (18 km) northeast of Mount Sandow. It was discovered by the Western Base Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–14) under Mawson, and named by Mawson for...
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-67.2333 | 100.75 | |
| x Mount Segers | Antarctica |
Mount Segers is a mountain on a ridge at the east side of the head of Crosswell Glacier, 11 km (7 mi) east of Mount Tyree, in the central part of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains.
Discovered by US Navy Squadron VX-6 on photographic flights of...
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-78.4167 | -85.35 | |
| x Vinson Massif |
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Antarctica |
Vinson Massif ( /ˈvɪnsən mæˈsiːf/) is the highest mountain of Antarctica, lying in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, which stand above the Ronne Ice Shelf near the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. The massif is located about 1,200...
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-78.52548 | -85.61715 |
| x Mount Melbourne |
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Victoria Land |
Mount Melbourne is a massive stratovolcano that makes up the projection of the coast between Wood Bay and Terra Nova Bay, in Victoria Land of Antarctica.
Discovered in 1841 by James Clark Ross, who named it for Lord Melbourne, British Prime Minister...
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-74.4 | 164.7 |
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Mount Erebus |
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Ross Island |
Mount Erebus (English pronunciation: /ˈɛrɨbəs/) is the second highest volcano in Antarctica (after Mount Sidley), and the 6th highest ultra mountain on an island. With a summit elevation of 3,794 metres (12,448 ft), it is located on Ross Island,...
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-77.5333 | 167.2833 |
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Mount Field | Antarctica |
Mount Field is a mountain standing 5 km SSE of Mount Egerton in the Churchill Mountains. Discovered and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Scott.
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-80.8833 | 158.0333 | |
| x Mount Andrus |
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Antarctica |
Mount Andrus is a shield volcano 3.2 km (2 mi) SE of Mount Boennighausen in the SE extremity of Ames Range, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1964-68. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Carl H. Andrus, US...
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-75.8 | 132.3 |
| x Mount Overlord |
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Victoria Land |
Mount Overlord (73°10′S 164°36′E / 73.167°S 164.6°E / -73.167; 164.6) is a very large mountain which is an extinct stratovolcano, situated at the northwest limit of Deception Plateau, 50 miles inland from the Ross Sea and just east of the head of...
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-73.16667 | 164.6 |
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Mount Black Prince | Victoria Land |
Mount Black Prince is a mountain composed of dark colored rock, which tends to create an imposing appearance. Located 6 km (4 mi) west of Mount Ajax in Victoria Land. Named by the New Zealand GSAE, 1957–58, for its appearance and also for the New...
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-71.7833 | 168.25 | |
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Mount Siple |
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Antarctica |
Mount Siple is a potentially active Antarctic shield volcano, rising to 3,110 metres (10,203 ft) and dominating the northwest part of Siple Island, which is separated from the Bakutis Coast, Marie Byrd Land, by the Getz Ice Shelf. Its youthful...
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-73.4333 | -126.6667 |
| Siple Island | |||||
| x Mount Ellsworth | Antarctica |
Mount Ellsworth is the highest peak in the Queen Maud Mountains, on the elongated massif between the Steagall and Amundsen Glaciers.
Discovered by Rear Admiral Byrd on the South Pole flight of November 28–29, 1929, and named by him for Lincoln...
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-85.75 | -161 | |
| x Mount Wade | Antarctica |
Mount Wade is a massive mountain which is a most distinctive landmark in its region, standing six kilometres northwest of Mount Campbell in the Prince Olav Mountains of Antarctica. The feature is easily viewed from positions on Shackleton Glacier or...
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-84.85 | -174.3167 | |
| x Mount McClintock | Antarctica |
Mount McClintock is the highest mountain (3,492 m / 11,456 ft) in the Britannia Range in Australian Antarctic Territory, surmounting the south end of Forbes Ridge, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Mount Olympus. It was discovered by the Discovery...
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-80.2167 | 157.4333 | |
| x Mount Moulton |
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Antarctica |
Mount Moulton is a broad, ice-covered shield volcano standing 16 km (10 mi) E of Mount Berlin in the Flood Range, Marie Byrd Land.
Discovered on aerial flights by the United States Antarctic Service in 1940, and named for Richard S. Moulton, chief...
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-76.05 | 135.1333 |
| x Mount Schmid | Antarctica |
Mount Schmid is a mountain on the south side of Embree Glacier, rising 8 km east of Mount Goldthwait in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains.
Mapped by USGS from surveys and US Navy air photos, 1957-59. Named by the US-ACAN for Captain Ernest A....
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-77.9667 | -85.6667 | |
| x Mount Adam | Antarctica |
Mount Adam is a mountain situated 4 km (2.5 mi) WNW of Mount Minto in the Admiralty Mountains. Discovered in January 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross who named this feature for Vice Admiral Sir Charles Adam, a senior naval lord of the Admiralty.
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-71.7833 | 168.6167 | |
| x Mount Hampton |
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Antarctica |
Mount Hampton is a shield volcano with a circular ice-filled crater occupying much of the summit area. It is the northernmost of the extinct volcanoes which comprise the Executive Committee Range in Marie Byrd Land.
Discovered by the USAS on a...
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-76.4833 | 125.8 |
| x Mount Campbell | Antarctica |
Mount Campbell may refer to:
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-84.9167 | -174 | |
| x Mount Sidley |
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Antarctica |
Mount Sidley is the highest volcano in Antarctica, a member of the Volcanic Seven Summits, with a summit elevation of 4,181–4,285 metres (13,717–14,058 ft). It is a massive, mainly snow-covered shield volcano which is the highest and most imposing...
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-77.0333 | 126.1 |
| x Plana Peak |
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Livingston Island |
Plana Peak (Vrah Plana \'vr&h; 'pla-na\) is a mostly ice-covered peak on the Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Surmounting Huron Glacier to the north and its tributaries to the east and west...
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-62.6514 | -60.0714 |
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Veleka Ridge |
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Antarctica |
Veleka Ridge is a predominantly ice-free ridge extending 3 km between Charity Glacier in the north and Botev Point in the south, and 1.3 km wide, in the southwest extremity of Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South...
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-62.7417 | -60.3128 |
| x Viskyar Ridge |
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Antarctica |
Viskyar Ridge (’rid vis-’kyar) is a rocky ridge rising to 600 m and extending 2.5 km in north-south direction in Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The ice-free surface area of the ridge is 135 hectares (330...
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-62.5414 | -59.6578 |
| x Mount Egerton | Antarctica |
Mount Egerton may refer to:
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-80.8333 | 157.9167 | |
| x Mount Parker | Victoria Land |
Mount Parker is a bluff-type mountain along the western side of Nash Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The area was mapped by the USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-63. The name Mount Parker was given to a mountain in this general...
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-71.25 | 168.0833 | |
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Mount Regina | Antarctica |
Mount Regina is a mountain standing 16 km (10 mi) WNW of Mount LeResche in the southern part of the Everett Range. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy photography, 1960-63.
Named by US-ACAN for Thomas J. Regina, Photographer's Mate, US Navy,...
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-71.45 | 165.75 | |
| x Lyaskovets Peak |
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Livingston Island |
Lyaskovets Peak (Vrah Lyaskovets \'vr&h; 'lyas-ko-vets\) is the easternmost peak of Friesland Ridge in the Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island and has an elevation 1,473 m. The first ascent was on 14 December 2004 by the Tangra 2004/05...
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-62.6633 | -60.1439 |
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Mount Terror |
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Ross Island |
Mount Terror is a large shield volcano that forms the eastern part of Ross Island, Antarctica. It has numerous cinder cones and domes on the flanks of the shield and is mostly under snow and ice. It is the second largest of the four volcanoes which...
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-77.5167 | 168.5333 |
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Mount Royalist | Victoria Land |
Mount Royalist is a prominent mountain standing 3 km (2 mi) west of Mount Adam in Victoria Land. Named by the New Zealand GSAE, 1957–58, for its impressive appearance and also for the New Zealand cruiser HMNZS Royalist. Several adjacent peaks are...
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-71.7833 | 168.5 | |
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Mount Wharton | Antarctica |
Mount Wharton is a mountain standing 8.8 km (5.5 mi) west of Turk Peak in the Churchill Mountains. Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for Sir William Wharton, Hydrographer to the Royal Navy, 1884-1904.
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-81.05 | 157.8167 | |
| x Mawson Peak |
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Heard Island and McDonald Islands |
Mawson Peak is a mountain on Heard Island, an external Australian territory in the Southern Ocean. With its summit at 2,745 metres (9,006 ft), it is the second highest peak in any state or territory of Australia, surpassed only by the 3,490 metres ...
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-53.1 | 73.5167 |
| Australia | |||||
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Mount Albert Markham | Antarctica |
Mount Albert Markham is a striking flat-topped mountain, standing midway between Mount Nares and Pyramid Mountain in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for Admiral Sir...
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-81.3833 | 158.2333 | |
| x Mount Richardson | Antarctica |
Mount Richardson is a mountain just west of Reece Pass and 5 km (3.1 mi) south of Mount Colombo in the southeast part of the Fosdick Mountains, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land.
Discovered on aerial flights from West Base of the United States...
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-76.5667 | -144.65 | |
| x Zograf Peak |
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Livingston Island |
Zograf Peak (Vrah Zograf \'vr&h; zo-'graf\) rises to 1,011 metres at the northeastern extremity of the Friesland Ridge in the Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak is heavily glaciated and crevassed,...
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-62.65178 | -60.14833 |
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Mount Steere |
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Antarctica |
Mount Steere is a prominent shield volcano standing 6.4 km (4 mi) NNW of Mount Frakes in the Crary Mountains of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.
Mapped by USGS from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-66. Named by US-ACAN for William C. Steere...
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-76.7 | -117.8 |
| x Mount Dickerson | Antarctica |
Mount Dickerson is a prominent mountain, standing 6 km (4 mi) east of Mount Kirkpatrick in the Queen Alexandra Range in East Antarctica. The mountain was named by US-ACAN for LCDR Richard G. Dickerson, US Navy, VX-6 aircraft commander during US...
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-84.3333 | 167.1333 | |
| x Mount Takahe |
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Antarctica |
Mount Takahe is a large, snow covered shield volcano standing 64 km SE of Toney Mountain in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It is roughly circular, about 29 km across, and has a caldera up to 8 km wide. At 780 cubic km, it is a massive volcano. The...
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-76.3 | -112.1 |
| x Ongal Peak | Livingston Island |
Ongal Peak (Vrah Ongal \'vr&h; 'on-g&l;\) is a sharp glaciated peak on the Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak was first ascended on 21 December 2004 by the Bulgarian Lyubomir Ivanov...
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-62.6586 | -60.1175 | |
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Mount Oliver | Antarctica |
Mount Oliver is a mountain standing three km southeast of Mount Campbell in the Prince Olav Mountains. Discovered and photographed by the USAS, 1939-41. Surveyed by A.P. Crary (1957–58) and named by him for Norman Oliver, Air Force Cambridge...
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-84.9333 | -173.7333 | |
| x Mount Wilson | Antarctica |
Mount Wilson is a mountain rising in the west part of the Bermel Peninsula on the Bowman Coast of Antarctica. This mountain appears indistinctly in a photograph taken by Sir Hubert Wilkins on his flight of December 20, 1928. The feature was...
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-68.45 | -65.55 | |
| x Deception Island |
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Antarctica |
Deception Island is an island in South Shetland off the Antarctic Peninsula, which has one of the safest harbours in Antarctica. The island is the caldera of an active volcano, which caused serious damage to the local scientific stations in 1967 and...
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-62.95 | -60.6 |
| x Mount Morning |
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Victoria Land |
Mount Morning is a dome-shaped stratovolcano standing WSW of Mount Discovery and east of Koettlitz Glacier in Victoria Land. Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) which named it for the Morning, relief ship to the...
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-78.3667 | 165.0167 |
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Gaussberg |
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Kaiser Wilhelm II Land |
Gaussberg (or Mount Gauss) is an extinct volcanic cone, 370 metres high (1,213 feet), fronting on Davis Sea immediately west of the Posadowsky Glacier in Kaiser Wilhelm II Land in Antarctica.
Discovered in February 1902 by the German Antarctic...
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-66.8 | 89.1833 |
| Antarctica | |||||
| x Mount Arrowsmith | Antarctica |
Mount Arrowsmith (76°46′S 162°18′E / 76.767°S 162.3°E / -76.767; 162.3) in Antarctica is a jagged rock peak near Mount Perseverance, 2 miles (3.2 km) along a ridge running northeast from that mountain, and a like distance east of Mount Whitcombe...
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-76.76667 | 162.3 | |
| x Mount Frakes |
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Antarctica |
Mount Frakes is a prominent shield volcano marking the highest elevation in the Crary Mountains, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.
The mountain was mapped by the USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-66. Named by US-ACAN for Lawrence A....
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-76.8 | -117.7 |
| x Toney Mountain |
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Antarctica |
Toney Mountain is an elongated snow-covered shield volcano, 60 km (38 mi) long and rising to 3,595 m in Richmond Peak, located 56 km (35 mi) SW of Kohler Range in Marie Byrd Land. A 3 km-wide summit caldera tops the volcano, and Holocene eruptions...
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-75.8 | -115.8 |
