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The Pyramid) is a small but distinctive peak in Antarctica just south of Pyramid Trough, at the west side of the Koettlitz The descriptive name appears to have been first used by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13 (BrAE).
Charpentier Pyramid) is a pyramid-shaped peak rising to 1,080 metres (3,540 ft) in the northwest part of the Herbert Mountains, Shackleton In association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in this area, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 after Jean de Charpentier , a Swiss engineer and mineralogist who in ...
The Gair, Tobin and Pain mesas are in the east side of the middle reach of the Rennick Glacier, and the Sheehan Mesa is on the west side.The Monument Nunataks are to the northwest, the Freyberg Mountains to the north, Half-ration Névé and the larger Evans Névé to the northeast, the Southern Cross Mountains to the east, and the Deep Freeze Range to the south.
The easternmost and westernmost points on Earth, based on the east–west standard for describing longitude, can be found anywhere along the 180th meridian, which passes through the Arctic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans, as well as parts of Siberia (including Wrangel Island), Antarctica, and three islands of Fiji (Vanua Levu's eastern peninsula, the middle of Taveuni, and the western part of ...
Module:Location map/data/Antarctic Peninsula is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Antarctic Peninsula. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The geography of Antarctica is dominated by its south polar location and, thus, by ice. The Antarctic continent , located in the Earth 's southern hemisphere , is centered asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle .
The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a 350 km (217 mi) long and 48 km (30 mi) wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land.
The Destination Nunataks) are a group of peaks and nunataks, 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) long and 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) wide, rising to 2,565 metres (8,415 ft) at Pyramid Peak and including Sphinx Peak, Andrews Peak, Mummy Ridge, and unnamed nunataks to the northwest, located in northeast Evans Névé, 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) northwest of the Barker Range, Victoria ...