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A rocky hill rising to 776 metres (2,546 ft) [4] high in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau. Situated in the west part of Zavera Snowfield, 2.73 kilometres (1.70 mi) south of Petkov Nunatak, 13.18 kilometres (8.19 mi) northwest of Mount Wild, 4.64 kilometres (2.88 mi) east-northeast of the summit of Kopito Ridge and 6.69 kilometres (4.16 mi) east-southeast of Lobosh Peak.
Murray Snowfield) is a snowfield centered 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Possession Bay in South Georgia. The name "John Murray-Gletscher" was given to a glacier flowing into the head of Possession Bay by members of the Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12. The SGS, 1955–56, reported that there is no true glacier in this position ...
Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island. Etar Snowfield (Bulgarian: Ледник Етър, romanized: lednik Etar, IPA: [ˈlɛdnik ˈɛtɐr]) is a roughly crescent-shaped snowfield on western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated west of Urdoviza, Medven and Berkovitsa Glaciers, northwest ...
Shotton Snowfield. The Shackleton Range is an ice-covered plateau between 1,200 and 1,600 metres (3,900 and 5,200 ft) high that rises between two large glaciers. [2] It is a rectangular horst rising above major fault zones now under the Slessor Glacier to the north and Recovery Glacier glacier to the south. [3]
A peak 6 nautical miles (11 km) east of Mount Durnford. It rises to 1,770 metres (5,800 ft) on the ridge south of Cooper Snowfield. The peak was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Theodore J. Liard, Jr. (1918–2002), a geographer with the Department of Interior and the Department of Defense in toponymic research for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1949–80.
A prominent, pyramidal rock peak, 1,675 metres (5,495 ft) high, midway along Torbert Escarpment. Discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956 on the transcontinental nonstop plane flight by personnel of United States Navy Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return.
Simler Snowfield is a snowfield lying northeast of Holtedahl Bay, on Velingrad Peninsula, the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd . in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS).
Cuthbertson Snowfield) is a snowfield rising to 340 metres (1,120 ft) and covering the high ground of eastern Laurie Island (eastward of Watson Peninsula), in the South Orkney Islands It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1987 after William Cuthbertson , the artist on the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition , led by W.S ...