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The Pyramid is on a promontory on the west side of Koettlitz Glacier between Renegar Glacier to the southwest and Walcott Bay to the northeast. Dromedary Glacier is to the northwest. Nearby features include The Almond, Pyramid Trough and The Bulwark. [2] The Alph River flows north through the Pyramid Trough. [3]
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 1835 gave additional proof on the former extension ...
The scale factor at each pole is adjusted to 0.994 so that the latitude of true scale is 81.11451786859362545° (about 81° 06' 52.3") North and South. The scale factor inside the regions at latitudes higher than this parallel is too small, whereas the regions at latitudes below this line have scale factors that are too large, reaching 1.0016 ...
Surville Cliffs, North Cape (mainland) 29°13′S 34°23′S Uruguay: Quarai River south of Dirceu Barcelos: 30°05′S Falkland Islands (United Kingdom) Steeple Island: 51°02′S South Georgia (United Kingdom) Cape North: 53°58′S Antarctica: Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula Antarctic Zone (South Orkney Islands) 63°23′S 60°35′S Antarctic ...
image = Antarctic Peninsula location map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = -60.8 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = -76 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = -76.3 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = -53.7 Longitude at right edge of map, in decimal degrees
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 ...
Location of Joerg Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula. Obrecht Pyramid) is a pyramidal peak (about 600 m) on the north shore of Joerg Peninsula, Bowman The peak was photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1940, and was surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1946–48.
The meridian 31° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Turkey, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 31st meridian east forms a great circle with the 149th meridian west.