Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mount Murray was first charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09 (BrAE) which named it for James Murray, biologist with...
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Murray (Antarctica), a granite peak in Victoria Land Mount Murray (British Columbia), in the Murray Range of Hart Ranges, Canada Mount Murray (New South...
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Mount Erebus (/ˈɛrɪbəs/) is the southernmost active volcano on Earth, located on Ross Island in the Ross Dependency in Antarctica. With a summit elevation...
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Antarctica (/ænˈtɑːrktɪkə/ ) is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded...
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Ross expedition (category 1830s in Antarctica)
expedition. The expedition confirmed the existence of the continent of Antarctica, inferred the position of the South Magnetic Pole and made substantial...
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Slagle Ridge (redirect from Mount Robinson (Antarctica))
The Murray Glacier originates to the north of the ridge. It is east of Mount Sabine, Mount Von Braun and Mount Whewell, and southwest of Mount Robinson...
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Mount Melbourne is a 2,733-metre-high (8,967 ft) ice-covered stratovolcano in Victoria Land, Antarctica, between Wood Bay and Terra Nova Bay. It is an...
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Prince Charles Mountains (redirect from Mount Mather (Antarctica))
Mac. Robertson Land in Antarctica, including the Athos Range, the Porthos Range, and the Aramis Range. The highest peak is Mount Menzies, with a height...
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south-west side of Hughes Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Murray Island is also known as Bluff Island. It lies at the southwest end...
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The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the...
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New Swabia (redirect from German Antarctica)
New Swabia (Norwegian and German: Neuschwabenland) was an area of Antarctica explored and briefly claimed by Nazi Germany within the Norwegian territorial...
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Mount Paterson is a pyramidal nunatak, 690 m in height, standing on the eastern side of the Rockefeller Mountains in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. A 172 ha...
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Deep Freeze Range (redirect from Mount Gibbs (Antarctica))
wide, rising between Priestley and Campbell Glaciers in Victoria Land, Antarctica, and extending from the edge of the polar plateau to Terra Nova Bay. It...
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Hope Bay (redirect from Mount Taylor (Antarctica))
Andersson Nunatak. The US Defense Mapping Agency's Sailing Directions for Antarctica (1976) describes Hope Bay as follows: Hope Bay is about 1 2/3 miles wide...
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Mount Archer is a rock peak immediately south of Archer Point on the west side of Harald Bay in Antarctica. The peak was mapped from aerial photos taken...
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Lamplugh Island (redirect from Mount Stephen (Antarctica))
Albert Mountains to the south of Mount Stephen, Sawyer Nunatak and McDaniel Nunatak, and north of Mount George Murray. Features of the island and the nearby...
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MacKenzie Bay Mount Campbell Mount Crawford (Antarctica) Mount Dalrymple Mount Douglas (Antarctica) Mount Hamilton (Antarctica) Mount Inverleith Mount Kirkpatrick/Kilpatrick...
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Aramis Range (redirect from Mount McKenzie (Antarctica))
On the continent of Antarctica, the Aramis Range is the third range south in the Prince Charles Mountains, situated 11 miles southeast of the Porthos Range...
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Scullin Monolith (category Important Bird Areas of Antarctica)
(3.7 mi) west of the similar Murray Monolith, and 8 km (5.0 mi) from Torlyn Mountain, in Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. It is a steep massif of metasedimentary...
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Cook Mountains (redirect from Diamond Hill (Antarctica))
is a group of mountains bounded by the Mulock and Darwin glaciers in Antarctica. They are south of the Worcester Range and north of the Darwin Mountains...
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The wildlife of Antarctica are extremophiles, having adapted to the dryness, low temperatures, and high exposure common in Antarctica. The extreme weather...
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Denfeld Mountains (redirect from Mount Edwards (Antarctica))
Valley Glacier and Arthur Glacier in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML...
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Retrieved 2 December 2023. "Mount Elkins". United States Board on Geographic Names. Geographic Names Information System. Antarctica Geographic Names Database...
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Penguin Island (South Shetland Islands) (redirect from Penguin Island, Antarctica)
Penguin Isle) is one of the smaller of the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Penguin Island was sighted in January 1820 by a British expedition under...
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List of Antarctic women (redirect from List of women in Antarctica)
(born 1939), mountaineer, the first woman to climb to the top of Mount Vinson, Antarctica's highest mountain Siti Aisyah Alias (born 1966), marine biologist...
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McMurdo Station (redirect from McMurdo, Antarctica)
New Zealand–claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic...
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Martin Peninsula (redirect from Murray Foreland)
to south, the Murray Foreland, Slichter Foreland, Smythe Shoulder, Rydelek Icefalls, Klinger Ridge, Ellis Ridge, Jenkins Heights and Mount Bray. 74°00′S...
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to Melbourne, and bought a house in the outer bayside suburb of Mount Eliza. Murray-Smith worked as the organising secretary of the Australian Peace...
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Deception Island (category Outposts of Antarctica)
(9.3 mi). The highest peak, Mount Pond on the east side of the island, has an elevation of 539 m (1,768 ft), while Mount Kirkwood on the west has an elevation...
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Lake Vida (category Valleys of Antarctica)
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...
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