Search Antarctic Names

An island about 3 km long in the southern part of the Øygarden Group. First visited by an ANARE sledging party led by Robert Dovers in 1954. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Karm.

A small island on the western side of Harald Bay, Oates Land. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Third Soviet Maritime Antarctic Expedition (1957-58) and ANARE (1959). The island was called Ostrov Kartografov by the Soviet expedition.

An island about 1 km south of Mule Island, off the southern part of the Vestfold Hills. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.

A small island about 3 km long and 1.5 km wide, on the eastern side of Stafansson Bay about 2 km south of Fold Island. Visited by an ANARE party led by Peter W. Crohn in 1956.

A prominent ice-free peak just south of Pomerantz Tableland. Plotted from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named after M.B. Keim, PH-1, USN, Aerial photographer on flights by Air Development Squadron Six (VX-6) in Victoria Land in 1962-63; returned to Antarctica in 1963-64.

Two small islands, 1 km south of the Parallactic Islands. Plotted from ANARE air photographs.

An ice covered plateau about 24 km long and from 3.2 to 6.4 km wide, located on the eastern side of the Churchill Mountains between the lower parts of Forda and Flynn Glaciers. Its bluff-like eastern side is bounded by the Starshot Glacier. It was mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

A prominent rock located above Try Pot Beach, eastern Heard Island.

A lake about 0.5 by 0.3 kms in size about 0.3 kms west of Kemp Peak. The lake is rectangular in shape and is flanked on the west by the ice of the Dovers Glacier. It lies at the base of Kemp Peak and drains from its NW corner via a short stream to tidal water.

That portion of Antarctica between 55 degrees E. and 60 degrees E. Named after Peter Kemp, who in the Brig Magnet, is reported to have sighted land in 1833. In 1930, BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson in the Discovery delineated the coastline from the junction with Enderby Land to that with Mac.Robertson Land. In 1936 the coast was rechartered by RRS William Scoresby.

A peak in the Stillwell Hills, just south-east of Stefansson Bay in Kemp Land. Discovered on about 5 January, 1930, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who called it Stanley Kemp Peak after Dr. Stanley W. Kemp, Director of Research of Discovery Investigations, 1924-36, and later called Kemp Peak as first names are not used for nomenclature matters.

A small peak about 1162 m high, protruding above the continental ice about 7 km south of Mt. Barr Smith on the western side of the Denman Glacier in Queen Mary Land. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after A.L. Kennedy, a member of the expedition.

The northernmost of three rock outcrops in the northern part of the Manning Nunataks. The nunataks were photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and ANARE (1957). They were visited by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1965 and by ANARE in 1969. Named after Kenneth A.Smith, radio officer at Mawson in 1969, a member of the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1969.

A ridge, about 13 km long, which falls from the north-east ridge of Midnight Plateau to the Darwin Glacier. It has several steep spurs plunging into Island Arena. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63). Named after J.P. Kennett, geologist with the expedition.

An ice plateau, exceeding 1,800 m above sea level, about 22 km long and 7 km wide, extending northward from Mount Egerton and Kiwi Pass to the vicinity of Mount Hamilton. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after Cdr. D.F. Kent, USN, logistics officer to Admiral Dufek at the outset of USN Operation Deepfreeze in 1956-57.

Named for Dr. Knowles Kerry, (retired Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Antarctic Division), one of the dominant figures for the present Australian Antarctic biology program and the "father" of the Marine Biology Program, one of the main proponents of the "ecosystem approach" to management of the Antarctic region that is now included in the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), initial chairman of the Working Group on the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring program (CEMP), leader and Chief Scientist of the BIOMASS (FIBEX) program, leader and chief scientist on numerous ANARE voyages, co-author and editor on several Antarctic books and films and recipient of the Antarctic Polar Medal (1993).

A small island 1 km west of Gardner Island, off the Vestfold Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

A snow-covered rock ridge about 68 km south-east of the summit of Mount Menzies in the southern Prince Charles Mountains. Photographed from ANARE aircraft in 1957 and 1960.Named after D.O. Keyser, radio officer at Mawson and a member of an ANARE field party which failed to reach the feature in 1961 because of impassable crevasses.

A bay in the eastern part of Casey Bay, Enderby Land. Photographed by ANARE aircraft in 1956. Explored by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in the Lena in 1957. Named after I.F. Khmara, a member of the 1956 Soviet expedition at Mirny who was killed in the Antarctic.

A small, low island, less than 1 km north-west of Mirny. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956) and named after I. Khmara, a member of the expedition who died in the Antarctic.