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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 Glacier. The descriptive name appears to have been first used by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13 (BrAE). [1]
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 lowest accessible point in Antarctica is the shore of Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills, which is 50.4 m [2] beneath sea level. The point on land farthest from any coastline on the Antarctic Continent is located at 83°54′14″S 64°53′24″E / 83.904°S 64.890°E / -83.904; 64.890 ( Antarctia's Outer Pole of Inaccessibility
The two grids covering the Arctic and Antarctic. The universal polar stereographic (UPS) coordinate system is used in conjunction with the universal transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system to locate positions on the surface of the Earth. Like the UTM coordinate system, the UPS coordinate system uses a metric-based cartesian grid laid out on ...
Some 98% of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, the world's largest ice sheet and also its largest reservoir of fresh water. Averaging at least 1.6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2.5 km below sea level; subglacial lakes of liquid water also occur (e.g., Lake ...
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 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.