Place details
Place nameAntarctica
Other namesAntarctic Continent, Antarktis, ATA, AQ, ISO010
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Continent lying around the South Pole, much of which is covered by an ice cap having an average thickness of 1 mile; supports whales & other fauna & flora suited to a cold climate; had a warmer climate in earlier ages; area is claimed by several nations.
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Place
- Broader
- Narrower
- Brabant Island
- Peter I Island
- Minna Bluff
- Mill Island
- Bellingshausen Sea
- Yule Bay
- Mühlig-Hofmannfjella
- Heritage Range
- Adelaide Island
- Theron Mountains
- Transantarctic Mountains
- George V Coast
- Penck Trough
- Prince Charles Mountains
- Fletcher Islands
- Amundsen Sea
- Porpoise Bay
- Vang, Mount
- Palmer Land
- Rockefeller Plateau
- Edward VIII Bay
- Marie Byrd Land
- Berlin, Mount
- Hobbs Coast
- George VI Sound
- Princess Astrid Coast
- Humboldt Mountains
- Rennick Bay
- Ritscher Upland
- Egerton, Mount
- Mawson Escarpment
- Dart, Cape
- Ulmer, Mount
- Marguerite Bay
- Latady Island
- Prydz Bay
- Bowman Island
- Whitmore Mountains
- Sidley, Mount
- Davis Bay
- Commonwealth Bay
- McClintock, Mount
- Hallett, Cape
- MacRobertson Land
- Eternity Range
- Ann, Cape
- Kirkpatrick, Mountain
- Ob' Bay
- Deakin Bay
- Pensacola Mountains
- Antarctic Peninsula
- Ellsworth Mountains
- Albert Markham, Mount
- McMurdo Sound
- Budd Coast
- Grove Mountains
- Peacock Sound
- Seal Bay
- Smyley, Cape
- Ingrid Christensen Coast
- Queen Mary Coast
- Prince Albert Mountains
- Ross Sea
- Breid Bay
- James Ross Island
- Prestrud Inlet
- Sturge Island
- Wilkes Land
- Renaud Island
- Princess Martha Coast
- Wade, Mount
- Executive Committee Range
- Agassiz, Cape
- Kemp Coast
- Eights Coast
- Stephenson, Mount
- Belgica Mountains
- Smith Peninsula
- Bunger Hills
- Bear Island
- Terre Adélie
- Adare, Cape
- Luitpold Coast
- Pine Island Bay
- Knox Coast
- Mount Ward
- Fridtjof Nansen, Mount
- Okuma Bay
- Bickerton, Cape
- Sulzberger Bay
- Biscoe Islands
- Joinville Island
- Kemp Peninsula
- Vahsel Bay
- Widerøe, Mount
- Burke Island
- Coulman Island
- Buckley Bay
- Framnes Mountains
- Martin Peninsula
- Hearst Island
- Prince Olav Coast
- Hawkes, Mount
- Jackson, Mount
- Stinear Nunataks
- Britannia Range
- Thiel Mountains
- Wrigley Gulf
- New Schwabenland
- Amundsen Bay
- Riiser-Larsen Peninsula
- Drygalski Island
- Ross Island
- Oates Coast
- Banzare Coast
- Whales, Bay of
- Kottas Mountains
- Siple Coast
- Masson Island
- Casey Bay
- Kraul Mountains
- Queen Fabiola Mountains
- Berkner Island
- Norths Highland
- Poinsett, Cape
- Enderby Land
- Petras, Mount
- Ford Ranges
- Sabine, Mount
- Dodson Peninsula
- Takahe, Mount
- Jason Peninsula
- Rex, Mount
- Victoria Land
- Vincennes Bay
- Spaatz Island
- Horlick Mountains
- Caird Coast
- Barrier Bay
- Bursey, Mount
- Coats Land
- MacKenzie Bay
- Smyley Island
- Norvegia Kapp
- Walgreen Coast
- Borg Mountain
- Wohlthat Mountains
- Williamson Head
- Weddell Sea
- Darnley, Cape
- Balleny Islands
- Admiralty Mountains
- Roosevelt Island
- Glossopteris, Mount
- Wilkes Coast
- Vinson Massif
- Mawson Peninsula
- Thomas Mountains
- Robertson Bay
- Markham, Mount
- Davis Sea
- Alexander Island
- Crary Mountains
- Paulding Bay
- Ronne Entrance
- Princess Ragnhild Coast
- Sabrina Coast
- Possession Islands
- Mikhaylov, Cape
- Beethoven Peninsula
- Lützow-Holm Bay
- Sør Rondane Mountains
- Ellsworth Land
- Vørterkaka Nunatek
- Shepard Island
- Edward VII Peninsula
- Habermehl Peak
- Charcot Island
- Guest Peninsula
- Colbeck, Cape
- Queen Alexandra Range
- Sentinel Range
- Erebus, Mount
- Boothby, Cape
- Hollick-Kenyon Plateau
- Menzies, Mount
- Thurston Island
- Commonwealth Range
- Pobeda Ice Island
- Huggins, Mount
- Bryan Coast
- Napier Mountains
- Terra Nova Bay
- Usarp Mountains
- Coman, Mount
- Lauritzen Bay
- White Island
- Levick, Mount
- Queen Maud Land
- Barne Inlet
- Queen Maud Mountains
- Williams, Cape
- Shackleton Range
- English Coast
- Jones Mountains
- Wilkins Sound
- American Highland
- Hudson Mountains
- Siple, Mount
- British Antarctic Territory (United Kingdom)
- King Leopold & Queen Astrid Coast
- Anvers Island
- Graham Land
- Bouvetøya (Norge)
- Australian Antarctic Territory (Australia)
- French Southern and Antarctic Territories