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Kabuto Rock
Kabuto Rock (-68.05°N, 43.6°W) is a large, blunt rock projecting from the coast about midway between Chijire Glacier and Rakuda Glacier in Queen Maud Land. Mapped from surveys and air photos by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), 1957-62, who also gave the name.

Kade Point
Kade Point (-54.1°N, -37.73333°W) is a point separating Ice Fjord and Wilson Harbor on the south coast of South Georgia. Kade Point is an established name dating back to about 1912.

Kado Point
Kado Point (-69.65°N, 39.36667°W) is a rock coastal point along the eastern side of Lutzow-Holm Bay. It marks the western extremity of Skallen Hills on the coast of Queen Maud Land. Mapped from surveys and air photos by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), 1957-62. The descriptive name "Kado-misaki" (corner point) was given by JARE Headquarters in 1972.

Kaggen Hill
Kaggen Hill (-72.05°N, 26.41667°W) is a small ice-covered hill standing in Byrdbreen, 7 nautical miles (13 km) east of Mount Bergersen in the Sor Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47, and named Kaggen (the keg).

Kahiwi Maihao Ridge
Kahiwi Maihao Ridge (-78.08333°N, 164°W) is a Maori name meaning "finger ridge."

Kainan Bay
Kainan Bay (-78.16667°N, -162.5°W) is an iceport which indents the front of Ross Ice Shelf about 37 miles northeast of the northwest end of Roosevelt Island. Discovered in January 1902 by the Discovery expedition under Robert Scott. It was named by the Japanese expedition under Lieutenant Nobu Shirase which, in January 1912, effected a landing on the ice shelf here from the ship Operation Deep Freeze, 1955-56, was established at this site in late December 1955.

Kaino-hama Beach
Kaino-hama Beach (-69.01667°N, 39.56667°W) is a small beach lying 0.2 nautical miles (0.4 km) south of Kitami Beach, on the south side of East Ongul Island. Mapped from surveys and air photos by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), 1957-62, and named Kaino-hama (beach of shells).

Cape Kaiser
Cape Kaiser (-64.23333°N, -62.01667°W) is the north end of Lecointe Island, lying just east of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-99, under Gerlache, and named by him for a supporter of the expedition.

Kaka Nunatak
Kaka Nunatak (-77.28333°N, 166.86667°W) is the most prominent of the Kea Nunataks, rising to c.1400 m near the center of the group. It stands 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) southeast of the summit of Mount Bird in northwest Ross Island. Kaka Nunatak is one of several features near Mount Bird assigned the native name of a New Zealand mountain bird. Named by New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB), 2000.

Kakapo Nunatak
Kakapo Nunatak (-77.21667°N, 166.8°W) is the southern of two similar nunataks that lie 0.3 nautical miles (0.6 km) apart and 3.3 nautical miles (6 km) north-northeast of Mount Bird in northwest Ross Island. It rises to c.1200 m and, like Takahe Nunatak close northeast, appears to be part of an ice-covered crater rim. Kakapo Nunatak is one of several features near Mount Bird assigned the native name of a New Zealand mountain bird. Named by New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB), 2000.

Kaki Ponds
Kaki Ponds (-77.7°N, 162.7°W) is a

Kakure Rocks
Kakure Rocks (-67.95°N, 44.78333°W) is a two rocky exposures along the east wall of Shinnan Glacier, at the west extremity of Enderby Land. Mapped from surveys and air photos by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), 1957-62, and named Kakure-iwa (hidden rocks).

Kal'vets Rock
Kal'vets Rock (-71.78333°N, 11.15°W) is a rock outcrop lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) west-southwest of the summit of Mount Flanuten on the west side of the Humboldt Mountains, Queen Maud Land. Discovered and plotted from air photos by German Antarctic Expedition, 1938-39. Mapped from air photos and surveys by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956-60; remapped by Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1960-61, and named after Soviet pilot O.A. Kal'vets.

Kalafut Nunatak
Kalafut Nunatak (-77.76667°N, -145.6°W) is a nunatak which marks the southeast end of the Haines Mountains, in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Antarctic Service (USAS) (1939-41) and by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos (1959-65). Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for John Kalafut, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) glaciologist at Byrd Station in the 1966-67 and 1968-69 seasons.

Kaliakra Glacier
Kaliakra Glacier (-62.58333°N, -60.16667°W) is a glacier south of Samuel Peak, Livingston Island, flowing east into the north part of Moon Bay. Named by the Bulgarian Antarctic Place-names Commission, c.1995, after Nos Kaliakra, a Bulgarian coastal point on the Black Sea.

Kamb Glacier
Kamb Glacier (-77.91667°N, 162.65°W) is a broad elevated glacier, 4 nautical miles (7 km) long, in the Royal Society Range, Victoria Land, flowing northeast from Fogle Peak to enter Condit Glacier. Named in 1992 by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after glaciologist Barclay Kamb of the California Institute of Technology; from the 1980's, a principal investigator in United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) studies of the West Antarctic ice sheet, including the drilling of deep boreholes to the base of Siple Coast ice streams; research in order to determine the mechanisms by which the ice streams are able to move at relatively greater speeds than the surrounding ice sheet.

Kamb Ice Stream
Kamb Ice Stream (-82.25°N, -145°W) is an ice stream flowing west to Siple Coast between Siple Dome and Whillans Ice Stream. It is one of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Lnad into the Ross Ice Shelf. The ice streams were investigated and mapped by United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) personnel in a number of field seasons from 1983-84 and named Ice Stream A, B, C, etc., according to their position from south to north. The name was changed by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 2002 to honor Barclay Kamb, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, who, during the 1990s, conducted geophysical measurements and other monitoring of the movement of Marie Byrd Land ice streams.

Kame Island
Kame Island (-67.96667°N, 44.2°W) is an island 4 nautical miles (7 km) east of Cape Ryugu, lying close to the shore of Queen Maud Land. Mapped from surveys and air photos by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), 1957-62, and named Kameshima (turtle island) because of its shape. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Kamelen Island
Kamelen Island (-67.51667°N, 61.61667°W) is an island about 45 m high, lying 3 nautical miles (6 km) southwest of Einstoding Islands in the north part of the Stanton Group. This island was mapped from air photographs by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and named Kamelen (the camel). == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Kamenev Bight
Kamenev Bight (-69.91667°N, 9.5°W) is a shallow embayment about 25 nautical miles (46 km) wide in the ice shelf fringing the coast of Queen Maud Land. Cape Krasinskiy, an ice cape, marks the west end of the bight which lies 60 nautical miles (110 km) northwest of Schirmacher Hills. The bight was photographed from the air by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in 1958-59 and was mapped from these photos. It was also mapped in 1961 by Soviet Antarctic Expedition who named it for S.S. Kamenev, organizer of Arctic expeditions.

Kamenev Nunatak
Kamenev Nunatak (-71.68333°N, -63°W) is a ridge-like nunatak located inland from Odom Inlet and 7 nautical miles (13 km) west of Mount Whiting in Palmer Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1974. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Yevgeniy N. Kamenev, Soviet geologist who was an Exchange Scientist to the U.S. McMurdo Station in 1972. He participated as a member of the USGS geological and mapping party to the Lassiter Coast in 1972-73.

Kaminski Nunatak
Kaminski Nunatak (-83.6°N, -54.2°W) is a cone-shaped nunatak 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) southeast of Rivas Peaks in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Francis Kaminski, aerographer at Ellsworth Station, winter 1958.

Kaminuma Bluff
Kaminuma Bluff (-77.6°N, 168.95°W) is a bold ice-covered bluff that rises to over 200 m near the shore in southeast Ross Island. The bluff is midway between Cape Mackay and Cape Crozier. At the suggestion of P.R. Kyle, named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2000) after Katsutada Kaminuma, National Institute of Polar Research, Japan, who was a founding member of the International Mount Erebus Seismic Study (IMESS), 1980-81 through 1986. This was a joint project with the United States, Japan, and New Zealand. Kaminuma was the lead Japanese member and continued to work in Antarctica and on Mount Erebus for many years.

Kaminuma Crag
Kaminuma Crag (-77.63333°N, 162.43333°W) is a craggy, island-like nunatak, 0.75 nautical miles (1.4 km) long, rising to 1,750 m in the uppermost neve area of the Newall Glacier, Asgard Range, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after Japanese geophysicist Katsutada Kaminuma, Professor of Earth Sciences, National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, who worked eight field seasons in the McMurdo Sound region: two seasons with the Dry Valleys Drilling Project, 1974-75, 1975-76; one season with Antarctic Search for Meteorites, 1976-77; five seasons with International Mount Erebus Seismic Survey, 1979-80, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1986-87.

Mount Kammuri
Mount Kammuri (-69.21667°N, 39.75°W) is a mountain (340 m) standing 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) south-southeast of Mount Choto in the central part of Langhovde Hills, on the coast of Queen Maud Land. Mapped from surveys and air photos by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), 1957-62. The name Kammuri-yama (Kanmuri Yama), meaning "crown mountain," was given by JARE Headquarters in 1973.

Lake Kamome
Lake Kamome (-69.01667°N, 39.58333°W) is a small lake between Lake Midori and Lake Tarachine in the south part of East Ongul Island. Mapped from surveys and air photos by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), 1957, and named Kamome-ike (sea gull pond).

Kamp Glacier
Kamp Glacier (-71.75°N, 25.4°W) is a glacier, 8 nautical miles (15 km) long, flowing northwest between Austkampane Hills on the west and Nordhaugen, Mehaugen and Sorhaugen Hills on the east, in the Sor Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47, and named Kampbreen (the crag glacier).

Kampekalven Mountain
Kampekalven Mountain (-71.93333°N, 7.76667°W) is a mountain, 2,200 m, forming the northeast end of the Filchner Mountains in Queen Maud Land. Photographed from the air by the German Antarctic Expedition (l938-39). Mapped from surveys and air photos by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956-60) and named Kampekalven (the crag calf).

Kamskaya Peak
Kamskaya Peak (-71.95°N, 13.41667°W) is a highest peak, 2,690 m, of Dekefjellet Mountain in the Weyprecht Mountains, Queen Maud Land. Discovered and plotted from air photos by German Antarctic Expedition, 1938-39. Mapped from air photos and surveys by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956-60; remapped by Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1960-61, and named probably after the Soviet river Kama.

Kanak Peak
Kanak Peak (-79.26667°N, 158.5°W) is a conspicuous ice-free peak, 2,410 m, standing 6 nautical miles (11 km) northwest of Mount Gniewek and north of the head of Carlyon Glacier in the Cook Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959-63. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Commander R.A. Kanak, U.S. Navy, commander of USS Durant on ocean station duty in support of aircraft flights between Christchurch and McMurdo Sound in U.S. Navy Operation Deepfreeze 1963.

Kaname Island
Kaname Island (-69.35°N, 37.6°W) is a small, isolated island which lies about 22 nautical miles (41 km) northwest of Padda Island in Lutzow-Holm Bay. The island was discovered by the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) during helicopter reconnaissance flights from East Ongul Island in the 1969-70 season. The name "Kaname-jima" (chief, or important island) was given by JARE Headquarters in 1972. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Kane Rocks
Kane Rocks (-85.3°N, 166.75°W) is an east-west trending ridge, 3 nautical miles (6 km) long, forming a rock median between the upper reaches of Koski Glacier and Vandament Glacier in the Dominion Range. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Henry Scott Kane, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) cosmic rays scientist at South Pole Station, winter 1964; a member of the South Pole-Queen Maud Land Traverse, 1964-65 and 1965-66.

Mount Kane
Mount Kane (-73.96667°N, -62.98333°W) is a mountain standing 6 nautical miles (11 km) west-southwest of Squires Peak in the Playfair Mountains, southern Palmer Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961-67. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Alan F. Kane, construction mechanic with the South Pole Station winter party in 1964.

Kani Rock
Kani Rock (-68.03333°N, 43.2°W) is a rock exposure between Umeboshi Rock and Chijire Rocks on the coast of Queen Maud Land. Mapped from surveys and air photos by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), 1957-62, and named Kani-iwa (crab rock).

Kanin Point
Kanin Point (-54.18333°N, 36.7°W) is a rocky point lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) west-southwest of Kelp Point on the south side of Husvik Harbor, in Stromness Bay, South Georgia. The descriptive name Rocky Point was given for this feature, probably by DI personnel who surveyed Husvik Harbor in 1928. This name is used elsewhere in the Antarctic. The SGS, 1951-52, reported that this feature is known at the Husvik whaling station as Kanin Point (the word Kanin meaning rabbit). The name presumably arose from one of several attempts made since 1872 to introduce rabbits into the island. Kanin Point is approved on the basis of local usage.

Kannheiser Glacier
Kannheiser Glacier (-72.16667°N, -101.7°W) is a glacier about 4 nautical miles (7 km) long, lying 12 nautical miles (22 km) east-southeast of Cape Flying Fish on Thurston Island and flowing south into Abbot Ice Shelf. First delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Commander William Kannheiser, U.S. Navy, helicopter pilot aboard the USS Glacier, who explored and photographed new Thurston Island features in February 1960.

Kansas Glacier
Kansas Glacier (-85.7°N, -134.5°W) is a steep glacier, 25 nautical miles (46 km) long, draining northeast from Stanford Plateau to enter Reedy Glacier just north of Blubaugh Nunatak. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, which has sent a number of research personnel to Antarctica.

Mount Kaplan
Mount Kaplan (-84.55°N, 175.31667°W) is a massive mountain, highest in the Hughes Range, standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) southeast of Mount Wexler. Discovered and photographed by R. Admiral Byrd on the Baselaying Flight of November 18, 1929, and surveyed by A.P. Crary in 1957-58. Named by the latter for Joseph Kaplan, Chairman of the U.S. National Committee for the IGY, 1957-58.

Kappa Island
Kappa Island (-64.31667°N, -63°W) is an island, nearly 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) long, lying immediately south of Beta Island and close east of Theta Islands in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago. The name, derived from the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet, probably was given by DI personnel who roughly surveyed the island in 1927. The island was resurveyed by Argentine expeditions in 1942, 1943 and 1948. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Kappen Cliffs
Kappen Cliffs (-76.93333°N, 162.36667°W) is a steep rock cliffs that form the south edge of Kar Plateau on Scott Coast, Victoria Land. The cliffs are 5.5 nautical miles (10 km) long and rise to 600 meters. Named by New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) (1999) after Professor Ludger Kappen, Kiel University, Germany, who conducted extensive lichen ecophysiology in the Cape Geology area.

Kar Plateau
Kar Plateau (-76.93333°N, 162.33333°W) is a small, mainly snow-covered plateau with an almost vertical rock scarp marking its southern side, standing on the west side of Granite Harbor, just north of the terminus of Mackay Glacier, in Victoria Land. The plateau rises gently toward the northwest to the heights of Mount Marston. Mapped and named by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13. "Kar" is a Turkish word meaning snow.

Karaali Rocks
Karaali Rocks (-75.36667°N, -137.91667°W) is a small group of rocks along the east side of the mainly snow-covered Coulter Heights. Located 5 nautical miles (9 km) east of Matikonis Peak in Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-65. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Atok Karaali, ionospheric physicist at Plateau Station, 1968.

Karamete Point
Karamete Point (-69.15°N, 35.43333°W) is a point just eastward of Kita-karamete Rock on the east side of Riiser-Larsen Peninsula, coastal Queen Maud Land. The name "Karamete-misaki" (back gate point) was applied by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) Headquarters in 1963 and follows Japanese exploration of this area.

Kare Bench
Kare Bench (-71.48333°N, 12.16667°W) is a flat-topped mountain, 1,810 m, standing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south of Mount Hansen and just southwest of Daykovaya Peak at the north end of Westliche Petermann Range, Wohlthat Mountains. Discovered and plotted from air photos by German Antarctic Expedition, 1938-39. Replotted from air photos and surveys by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956-60, and named for Kare Hansen, a meteorologist with Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1958-59.

Karelin Bay
Karelin Bay (-66.5°N, 85°W) is a baylike indentation in the middle of the north part of West Ice Shelf. Leskov Island lies immediately southeast of the bay. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1956, and named for professor of oceanography, Dmitriy Karelin.

Karelin Islands
Karelin Islands (-65.58333°N, -65.58333°W) is a group of islands 3 nautical miles (6 km) in extent, lying 3 nautical miles (6 km) southeast of Tula Point, Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands. First accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for Dmitriy Karelin (1913-1953), Soviet meteorologist and pioneer of research on sea ice recording and forecasting. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Karlsen Cliffs
Karlsen Cliffs (-64.33333°N, -56.96667°W) is a cliffs forming the northwest coast of Spath Peninsula, northeast Snow Hill Island. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1995 after Anders Karlsen (b. 1864), First Engineer on the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, led by Otto Nordenskjold.

Karlsen Rock
Karlsen Rock (-60.35°N, -46°W) is a submerged rock lying 10 nautical miles (18 km) north-northwest of Penguin Point, the northwest point of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands. Charted and named on a map by Petter Sorlle, Norwegian whaler who made a running survey of the South Orkney Islands in 1912-13.

Karm Island
Karm Island (-66.98333°N, 57.45°W) is an island 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) long, lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) southeast of Shaula Island in the south part of the Oygarden Group. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and called by them Karm (coaming). First visited in 1954 by an ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) sledging party led by R. Dovers. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Karo Hills
Karo Hills (-85.56667°N, -154.16667°W) is a rounded, ice-free foothills extending for 12 nautical miles (22 km) along the west side of the terminus of Scott Glacier, from Mount Salisbury north-northwest to the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. First seen and roughly mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Admiral H. Arnold Karo, Director of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1955-65.

Karoro Pond
Karoro Pond (-77.66667°N, 162.23333°W) is a

Karpf Point
Karpf Point (-66.9°N, -64.38333°W) is a point along the north side of Mill Inlet, 3 nautical miles (6 km) south of Mount Vartdal, on the east coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) in 1947. Named by FIDS for Alois Karpf, librarian of the Kaiserliche and Konigliche Geographische Gesellschaft in Vienna and joint author of a polar bibliography.

Mount Karpinskiy
Mount Karpinskiy (-72.2°N, 18.41667°W) is an isolated mountain about 9 nautical miles (17 km) south of Zhelannaya Mountain in the Russkiye Mountains, Queen Maud Land. Observed and mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1959, and named for geologist A.P. Karpinskiy, President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Karrakatta Valley
Karrakatta Valley (-54.16667°N, -36.71667°W) is a short valley trending west-northwest from Husvik Harbor, Stromness Bay, South Georgia. Named after the hulk Karrakatta on a slipway at the abandoned whaling station at the head of Husvik Harbor. Built in Oslo in 1912, she served as a whale catcher off Western Australia, and was last used at the slipway to provide steam to the adjacent engineering shop, probably until 1959. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1990.

Kartografov Island
Kartografov Island (-69.2°N, 157.71667°W) is a small coastal island lying in the west part of the mouth of Harald Bay. Photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1957-58) and ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) (1959). The island was named Ostrov Kartografov (cartographers' island) by the Soviet expedition. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Mount Kaschak
Mount Kaschak (-84.03333°N, -56.66667°W) is a peak, 1,580 m, standing 4 nautical miles (7 km) west of Gambacorta Peak in southern Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped from United States Geological Survey (USGS) surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for John P. Kaschak, aviation machinist at Ellsworth Station, winter 1958.

Kasumi Glacier
Kasumi Glacier (-68.33333°N, 42.35°W) is a wide glacier flowing to the sea just east of Kasumi Rock in Queen Maud Land. Mapped from surveys and air photos by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) 1957-62, who gave the name.

Kasumi Rock
Kasumi Rock (-68.36667°N, 42.23333°W) is a substantial rock exposure on the coast between Ichime Glacier and Kasumi Glacier in Queen Maud Land. Mapped from surveys and air photos by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), 1957-62, who also gave the name.

Katedralen Canyon
Katedralen Canyon (-71.86667°N, 6.55°W) is an ice-filled canyon with steep rock cliffs indenting the northwest side of Jokulkyrkja Mountain, in the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land. Plotted from surveys and air photos by the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956-60) and named Katedralen (the cathedral).

Kater Rocks
Kater Rocks (-63.76667°N, -59.88333°W) is a small cluster of rocks lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) northwest of Cape Kater, Graham Land. The rocks were first charted and named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, under Otto Nordenskjold.

Cape Kater
Cape Kater (-63.76667°N, -59.9°W) is a cape fringed by rocks, marking the west side of the entrance to Charcot Bay on the west coast of Graham Land. This coast was sketched by a British expedition 1828-31, under Foster, who named a cape in this region after Captain Henry Kater, a member of the committee which planned the expedition. This region was more fully mapped by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, under Nordenskjold, who gave the name Cape Gunnar to this cape. The name Kater perpetuates the earlier naming.

Mount Kathleen
Mount Kathleen (-83.76667°N, 172.8°W) is a peak about 900 m, being the central and highest summit of Ebony Ridge at the north end of Commonwealth Range. Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition (1907-09) under Sir Ernest Shackleton, who named this feature for his eldest sister.

Mount Katsufrakis
Mount Katsufrakis (-82.96667°N, 161.63333°W) is a projecting-type mountain on the east side of Markham Plateau in the Queen Elizabeth Range. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for John P. Katsufrakis, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) radio scientist at McMurdo Station, 1963-64, and Byrd Station, 1964-65 and 1965-66.

Kattaugo Rocks
Kattaugo Rocks (-69.76667°N, 37.51667°W) is a two exposed rocks 5 nautical miles (9 km) east of Sata Nunatak, standing at the base of Botnneset Peninsula on the south side of Lutzow-Holm Bay. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and named Kattaugo (the cat's eyes).

Kauffman Glacier
Kauffman Glacier (-71.25°N, -61.3°W) is a broad, smooth glacier, 7 nautical miles (13 km) long, flowing eastward into the head of Palmer Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1974. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Thomas A. Kauffman, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) biologist and Station Scientific Leader at Palmer Station in 1973.

Mount Kauffman
Mount Kauffman (-75.61667°N, -132.41667°W) is a prominent mountain (2,365 m) that surmounts the northwest end of Ames Range in Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-65. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Commander S.K. Kauffman, U.S. Navy, staff civil engineering officer who supervised the planning and building of Plateau Station, 1965-66.

Kavrayskiy Hills
Kavrayskiy Hills (-70.45°N, 161.08333°W) is a line of mostly ice-covered coastal hills rising south of Rennick Bay and along the west side of the lower end of Rennick Glacier. Charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1958) and named after Vasiliy V. Kavrayskiy, Soviet geodesist and cartographer (1884-1954).

Kay Island
Kay Island (-74.06667°N, 165.31667°W) is a small island lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) east of Cape Johnson in the north part of Wood Bay, Victoria Land. Discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, and named by him for Lieutenant Joseph W. Kay, Dir. of the Rossbank Observatory in Tasmania, who was third lieutenant on the ship Terror. Originally charted by Ross as a group of three islands, only this one is now known to exist. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Kay Nunatak
Kay Nunatak (-68.68333°N, -64.66667°W) is a dark rocky nunatak rising to 500 m, situated at the south side of Mobiloil Inlet and forming the northernmost outlier of Hitchcock Heights, on the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula. The nunatak was photographed from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins on December 20, 1928, and by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935. Named in 1952 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for John D. Kay of the American Geographical Society, who by utilizing these photographs assisted in constructing the first reconnaissance map of this area.

Kay Peak
Kay Peak (-75.23333°N, -110.95°W) is a pyramidal peak, 760 m, near the end of the large spur descending northwest from the Mount Murphy massif, in Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Commander W. Kay, U.S. Navy, leader of the Construction Unit at South Pole Station during Operation Deep Freeze 1973.

Kayak Bay
Kayak Bay (-64.3°N, -62.21667°W) is a bay, 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) wide, on the inner (west) side of Pampa Passage, indenting the east coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Malpighi Glacier and Mackenzie Glacier flow into the bay. The feature was roughly mapped in 1898 by the BelgAE. Mapped in greater detail by Argentine expeditions from 1947-48 onward and included as part of "Bahia Pampa" (now Pampa Passage, q.v.). This bay was so named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1986 in reference to the sea canoes of the British Joint Services Expedition that passed through the bay on a circumnavigation of Brabant Island in February 1985.

Kaye Crest
Kaye Crest (-72.1°N, 4.4°W) is a ridge lying between Preuschoff Range and Gablenz Range in the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land. The name "Kaye-Kamm" was given to a linear elevation in this vicinity by the German Antarctic Expedition under Ritscher, 1938-39. The correlation of the name with this feature may be arbitrary but is recommended for the sake of international uniformity and historical continuity.

Kazanskaya Mountain
Kazanskaya Mountain (-71.96667°N, 13.25°W) is a mountain, 2,690 m, forming the north end of Snoskalegga Ridge in the Weyprecht Mountains of Queen Maud Land. Discovered and plotted from air photos by German Antarctic Expedition, 1938-39. Mapped from air photos and surveys by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956-60; remapped by Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1960-61, and named presumably after the Russian city Kazan.

Mount Kazukaitis
Mount Kazukaitis (-72.03333°N, -100.91667°W) is a peak of the Walker Mountains, located at the base of Hughes Peninsula in the west part of Thurston Island. Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Chief Photographer's Mate Frank Kazukaitis, U.S. Navy, who recorded features of the Walgreen and Eights Coasts on the U.S. Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition in February 1960. He served as photographer on several additional Navy Deep Freeze deployments to Antarctica.

Kea Nunataks
Kea Nunataks (-77.28333°N, 166.85°W) is a line of several nunataks 1.2 nautical miles (2.2 km) southeast of the summit of Mount Bird, Ross Island. The feature trends NW-SE and is 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) long. Kea Nunataks is one of several features near Mount Bird assigned the native name of a New Zealand mountain bird. Named by New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB), 2000.

Kealey Ice Rise
Kealey Ice Rise (-77°N, -83°W) is an ice rise, 40 nautical miles (70 km) long and 15 nautical miles (28 km) wide, forming a western lobe of the larger Fowler Ice Rise. It is situated just north of the junction of Talutis Inlet and Carlson Inlet, at the southwest side of Ronne Ice Shelf. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from imagery provided by NASA Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS-1), 1973-74. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Gerald P. Kealey, U.S. Navy, medical officer at South Pole Station in 1971.

Kearns Peninsula
Kearns Peninsula (-72.05°N, -99.21667°W) is a broad ice-covered peninsula between Potaka Inlet and Peale Inlet on the north side of Thurston Island. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Lieutenant (jg) William H. Kearns, U.S. Navy Reserve, co-pilot of the Operation Highjump PBM Mariner seaplane that crashed on adjacent Noville Peninsula, December 30, 1946. Kearns and five other survivors were rescued on January 12, 1947.

Keating Massif
Keating Massif (-81°N, 156.56667°W) is a rugged mainly ice-covered massif, 20 km long, rising to approximately 2370 m, and lying northwest. It is located at the southern edge of the head of Byrd Glacier. The feature includes Mount Fries and forms the southwestern boundary of Zeller Glacier, Churchill Mountains. Named in honor of Colin Keating, who was the Secretary for Justice from 1997 - 2000. He had a distinguished 30 year career in the Public Service, mostly with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, during which time he had a significant Antarctic focus through his work in the Legal Division and then as the Deputy Secretary responsible for Multi Lateral Affairs, which included the Legal and Antarctic Divisions. Later, as the Deputy Secretary responsible for Corporate Affairs, he retained authority for the Antarctic Policy Unit, at a time of considerable changes to the organizational structure of New Zealand Antarctic institutions from 1985 through to 1993. He provided much of the intellectual input behind New Zealand's work leading to the adoption of the Environment Protocol.

Keble Hills
Keble Hills (-78°N, 164.16667°W) is a named after Keble (1877-1969), a New Zealand botanist.

Keel Hill
Keel Hill (-85.1°N, -174.21667°W) is a small ice-free hill, standing at the north side of McGregor Glacier, about 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) east of Crilly Hill, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Named by the Texas Tech Shackleton Glacier Expedition (1964-65) for Specialist 5th Class Elbert E. Keel, member of the U.S. Army Aviation Detachment which supported the expedition.

Keel Island
Keel Island (-67.35°N, 59.31667°W) is an island lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south of Fold Island on the east side of Stefansson Bay, off the coast of Enderby Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and named Kjolen (the keel). Seen by an ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) party in 1956. The translated form of the name recommended by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) has been approved. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Cape Keeler
Cape Keeler (-68.85°N, -63.21667°W) is an ice-covered cape, which rises gently northwestward to 520 m, forming the south side of the entrance to Revelle Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land. Discovered on December 20, 1928 by Sir Hubert Wilkins, who named it for Fred E. Keeler of the Lockheed Company. An advance base and meteorological station was established at Cape Keeler by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) under Ronne in 1947-48.

Keep Rock
Keep Rock (-62.8°N, -61.61667°W) is a small rock lying 0.8 nautical miles (1.5 km) west-southwest of Castle Rock, off the west side of Snow Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The name, which derives from association with Castle Rock, was given by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) following survey by Lieutenant Commander F.W. Hunt, Royal Navy, in 1951-52.

Kehle Glacier
Kehle Glacier (-78.93333°N, 160.3°W) is a glacier draining the west slopes of Worcester Range in the vicinity of Mount Speyer and Mount Dawson-Lambton, and flowing southwest into Mulock Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1964 for Ralph Kehle, glaciologist at Little America V, 1959-60.

Keilhau Glacier
Keilhau Glacier (-54.26667°N, -37.06667°W) is a glacier 5 nautical miles (9 km) long flowing west from Kohl Plateau and then southwest to Jossac Bight, on the south coast of South Georgia. Mapped by Olaf Holtedahl during his visit to South Georgia in 1927-28, and named by him for Baltazar M. Keilhau (1797-1858), Norwegian geologist and professor of mineralogy at the University of Christiania.

Keim Peak
Keim Peak (-70.73333°N, 159.86667°W) is a noteworthy pointed rock peak (2,045 m) on the southern spur of Pomerantz Tableland, in the Usarp Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1960-62. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Mike B. Keim, U.S. Navy, aerial photographer on flights by Squadron VX-6 in Victoria Land in 1962-63; returned to Antarctica in 1963-64.

Mount Keinath
Mount Keinath (-74.53333°N, 163.95°W) is a mountain, 1,090 m, rising at the east side of the terminus of Boomerang Glacier in Deep Freeze Range, Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1955-63. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Gerald E. Keinath, biolab administrator at McMurdo Station, 1965-66 season.

Mount Keith
Mount Keith (-70.9°N, 163.31667°W) is a mountain (1,530 m) surmounting the east end of the ridge between Rastorguev and Crawford Glaciers in the Bowers Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-65. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for John D. Keith, builder, U.S. Navy, a member of the South Pole Station party, 1965.

Kellas Islands
Kellas Islands (-67.55°N, 62.76667°W) is a two small islands 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) south of the Parallactic Islands in Holme Bay, Mac. Robertson Land. Plotted from photos taken from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) aircraft in 1958 and 1959. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for W.R. Kellas, weather observer at Mawson Station in 1960. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Keller Inlet
Keller Inlet (-74.25°N, -61.08333°W) is an ice-filled inlet 12 nautical miles (22 km) long, in a NE-SW direction, and 6 nautical miles (11 km) wide, between Cape Little and Cape Fiske, along the east coast of Palmer Land. This inlet was photographed from the air by members of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) in December 1940, and in 1947 by members of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) under Ronne, who in conjunction with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) charted it from the ground. Named by Ronne for Louis Keller of Beaumont, Texas, who contributed supplies to Ronne's expedition.

Keller Peninsula
Keller Peninsula (-62.08333°N, -58.43333°W) is a high peninsula separating Mackellar and Martel Inlets in Admiralty Bay, on King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The name Keller was applied by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, who charted Admiralty Bay in December 1909.

Kelley Massif
Kelley Massif (-70.65°N, -63.58333°W) is a rugged mountain massif, 10 nautical miles (18 km) long, located immediately west of the Eland Mountains and along the south side of Clifford Glacier, in Palmer Land. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1974. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Captain Hugh A. Kelley, U.S. Navy, Commander of Antarctic Support Activities during Operation Deep Freeze 1968 and 1969.

Kelley Nunatak
Kelley Nunatak (-85.65°N, -146.73333°W) is a nunatak on the north side of Leverett Glacier, 12 nautical miles (22 km) northeast of Mount Gould. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Herbert O. Kelley, radioman with the Byrd Station winter party in 1958.

Kelley Peak
Kelley Peak (-80.16667°N, -82.83333°W) is a peak, 1,710 m, forming the south end of Liberty Hills in the Heritage Range. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for air crewman Charles C. Kelley, U.S. Navy, who perished in the crash of the LC-47 aircraft on the Ross Ice Shelf, February 2, 1966.

Kelley Spur
Kelley Spur (-82.61667°N, -52.13333°W) is a rock spur 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) east of Spear Spur on the south side of Dufek Massif Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Samuel Kelley, photographer of U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 on several Deep Freeze deployments, 1964-70.

Kellick Island
Kellick Island (-61.91667°N, -58.43333°W) is an island 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) long, lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) northeast of Round Point, off the north coast of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Captain Kellick, Master of the British sealer Henry, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821-22. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Kellogg Glacier
Kellogg Glacier (-71.85°N, -62.68333°W) is a glacier about 9 nautical miles (17 km) long at the base of Condor Peninsula on the east side of Palmer Land. The glacier flows southeast along the north side of Boyer Spur and merges with the north side of Gruening Glacier just inland from the northwest head of Hilton Inlet. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1974. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for geologist Karl S. Kellogg, a member of the USGS Lassiter Coast party in 1972-73.

Kellogg Valley
Kellogg Valley (-77.48333°N, 161.18333°W) is a high (1,400 m) hanging valley, for the most part free of ice, between Mount Boreas and Mount Aeolus in Olympus Range, Victoria Land; the valley opens north to McKelvey Valley, 500 m below. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after husband and wife glacial geologists Thomas B. Kellogg and Davida E. Kellogg, Department of Geological Sciences and Institute of Quaternary Studies, University of Maine, who in several seasons, 1976-90, collaborated in study of the glacial history of the McMurdo Sound region, including field work on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Ross Ice Shelf, in Ross Sea, and the McMurdo Dry Valleys, the location of this valley.

Kelly Glacier
Kelly Glacier (-72.31667°N, 168.91667°W) is a steep tributary glacier descending southwest from Mount Peacock to enter Tucker Glacier just south of Mount Titus, in the Admiralty Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Anthony J. Kelly, U.S. Navy, medical officer at Hallett Station, 1961.

Kelly Nunataks
Kelly Nunataks (-77.28333°N, -141.73333°W) is the nunataks that mark the east extremity of the Clark Mountains, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-65. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for John David Kelly, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station, 1968.

Kelly Plateau
Kelly Plateau (-81.4°N, 159.5°W) is an ice-covered plateau, about 15 nautical miles (28 km) long and from 2 to 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide, located on the east side of the Churchill Mountains between the lower parts of Jorda and Flynn Glaciers. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Commander George R. Kelly, U.S. Navy, commanding officer of U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 during Operation Deepfreeze 1964.

Mount Kelly
Mount Kelly (-70.78333°N, 164.31667°W) is a prominent peak (1,110 m) located 3 nautical miles (6 km) northwest of Mount Burch in western Anare Mountains. Named by ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) for Second Lieutenant R.M. Kelly, officer in charge of the army amphibious motor vehicle detachment with ANARE (Thala Dan) 1962, led by Phillip Law, which explored the area.

Kelmelis Hills
Kelmelis Hills (-77.98333°N, 163.6°W) is a group of hills rising to 1,070 m between Brodie Ponds and Joyce Glacier, situated midway up the Blue Glacier on its east margin, in Victoria Land. Named in 1992 by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after John A. Kelmelis, cartographer, United States Geological Survey (USGS); Manager of Polar Programs, Office of International Activities, USGS, 1984-87.

Kelp Bank
Kelp Bank (-54°N, -37.1°W) is a shoal, which is covered with kelp, lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of Cape Crewe, off the north coast of South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1931 British Admiralty chart.

Kelp Bay
Kelp Bay (-54.45°N, -36.11667°W) is a small open bay close east-southeast of Doris Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. It is filled with kelp and there is no anchorage. The SGS, 1951-52, reported that the descriptive name was well established locally.

Kelp Point
Kelp Point (-54.16667°N, -36.63333°W) is a point fringed by kelp, marking the south side of the entrance to Husvik Harbor, the southern arm of Stromness Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia. Charted and named by DI personnel in the period 1926-30.

Kelsey Cliff
Kelsey Cliff (-74.5°N, -62.3°W) is a prominent cliff standing close southeast of Mount Owen in the east end of the Guettard Range, in Palmer Land. First mapped by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE)-FIDS joint sledge party in 1947-48. Named for Lawrence D. Kelsey, radio operator with the RARE, 1947-48.

Mount Kelsey
Mount Kelsey (-80.45°N, -22.31667°W) is a mountain rising to about 1,370 m between M'Clintock Bastion and Blanchard Hill in the Pioneers Escarpment, Shackleton Range. In association with the names of pioneers of polar life and travel grouped in this area, named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1971 after Henry Kelsey (1670-c. 1729), English employee of the Hudson's Bay company, first white man known to have adopted North American Indian methods of life and travel (including the use of pemmican) in 1691.

Keltie Glacier
Keltie Glacier (-84.88333°N, 170.33333°W) is a large glacier, 30 nautical miles (60 km) long, draining from Pain Neve southwest around the southern extremity of Commonwealth Range, and then northwest to enter Beardmore Glacier at Ranfurly Point. Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition (1907-09) who named it for Sir John Scott Keltie, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1915.

Keltie Head
Keltie Head (-63.78333°N, -57.68333°W) is a rounded headland with vertical cliffs which rise to a small ice dome 395 m high, forming the northwest end of Vega Island, south of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Nordenskjold, 1901-04, and named by him for Sir John Scott Keltie, Sec. of the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1915.

Cape Keltie
Cape Keltie (-66.05°N, 133.43333°W) is an ice-covered cape on Clarie Coast, 11 nautical miles (20 km) west of Cape Cesney. Discovered from the Aurora by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14) under Douglas Mawson, and roughly charted at a distance of about 10 nautical miles (18 km) as lying in 6605S, 13300E. Named by Mawson for Sir John Scott Keltie, Sec. of the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1915. The identification of this feature is based upon the G.D. Blodgett map of 1955, compiled from aerial photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946-47).

Mount Keltie
Mount Keltie (-79.25°N, 159.48333°W) is a mountain, 2,640 m, midway between Mounts Kosko and Chalmers in the Conway Range. Discovered by the Discovery expedition (1901-04) and named for Sir John Scott Keltie, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1915.

Kelvin Crests
Kelvin Crests (-69.16667°N, -66.58333°W) is a line of steep-sided elevations with ice-covered cliffs 5 nautical miles (9 km) long. Located on the north side of Airy Glacier near its junction with Forster Ice Piedmont on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. Roughly surveyed by British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) in 1936-37. Photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) in 1947. Surveyed from the ground, from the southwest only, by members of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), December 1958. Completely mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS), 1974. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for William Thomson, First Baron Kelvin (1824-1907), British physicist and engineer who made substantial improvements in the design of magnetic compasses, 1873-78, and invented the Kelvin sounding machine in 1878.

Kemp Coast
Kemp Coast (-67.25°N, 58°W) is that portion of the coast of Antarctica that lies between the head of Edward VIII Bay, in 5625E, and William Scoresby Bay, in 5934E. Named for a British sealing captain, Peter Kemp, who discovered land in this vicinity in 1833.

Kemp Peak
Kemp Peak (-67.43333°N, 59.4°W) is a prominent peak, 340 m, standing close southeast of Stefansson Bay. Discovered in January 1930 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson and named for Dr. Stanley W. Kemp, British marine biologist and oceanographer who was Director of Research of the Discovery Investigations, 1924-36. This area was subsequently mapped in detail by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37. They named the peak "Hornet," but Australian parties that explored the area in the l950s have identified it as Kemp Peak, named earlier by Mawson.

Kemp Peninsula
Kemp Peninsula (-73.13333°N, -60.25°W) is an irregular ice-covered peninsula 26 nautical miles (48 km) long in a north-south direction and 5 to 12 nautical miles (22 km) wide. The peninsula rises gently to 305 m and projects east between the heads of Mason and Mossman Inlets, on the east coast of Palmer Land. First seen from the air in December 1940 by members of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), who at that time photographed all but its north extremity. During 1947 it was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), who in conjunction with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) charted it from the ground. Named by the FIDS for Stanley W. Kemp, British marine biologist and oceanographer, first Director of Research of the Discovery Investigations, 1924-36, and Director of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, 1936-45.

Kemp Rock
Kemp Rock (-71.96667°N, 171.1°W) is a large insular rock between Foyn Island and Bull Island in the Possession Islands. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for William R. Kemp, PH1, U.S. Navy, Photographer of Squadron VX-6 on the flight of January 18, 1958, at the time the Possession Islands and this feature were photographed.

Cape Kemp
Cape Kemp (-64.86667°N, -63.65°W) is a cape forming the southwest tip of Doumer Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. First charted by the French Antarctic Expedition 1903-05, under Charcot. Various islands of the Palmer Archipelago were charted in 1927 by DI personnel on the Discovery, and this cape was subsequently named for Dr. Stanley W. Kemp, British marine biologist and oceanographer, who was scientific leader on the Discovery.

Kempe Glacier
Kempe Glacier (-78.3°N, 162.9°W) is a short alpine glacier, bounded on the north by Dismal Ridge and on the south by the Mount Kempe-Mount Dromedary ridge, whose chief nourishment is neve fields on the north slopes of Mount Kempe. The glacier drains northeast toward Roaring Valley. Named by the New Zealand Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1960-61, for its association with Mount Kempe.

Mount Kempe
Mount Kempe (-78.31667°N, 162.71667°W) is a peak, 3,005 m, midway between Mounts Huggins and Dromedary in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land. Discovered by the Discovery expedition (1901-04) which named it for Sir Alfred Bray Kempe, at that time Treasurer of the Royal Society.

Kendall Basin
Kendall Basin (-80.25°N, -25.65°W) is an ice-free cirque at the northwest end of the Herbert Mountains, Shackleton Range. Photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967, and surveyed by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), 1968-71. In association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in this area, named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1971 after Percy Fry Kendall (1856-1936), English glacial geologist; sometime Professor of Geology, Leeds University.

Kendall Rocks
Kendall Rocks (-63.5°N, -59.81667°W) is a group of pillar-shaped rocks, lying 3 nautical miles (6 km) north of Tower Island in the Palmer Archipelago. The name Kendall Group appears northwest of this position on a chart based upon work by a British expedition under Commander Henry Foster, Royal Navy, 1828-31, but it was later found that no islands exist there. The name Kendall Rocks has subsequently been applied to these pillar-shaped rocks discovered in 1838 by a French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville. Named for Lieutenant E.N. Kendall of Foster's expedition ship, the Chanticleer.

Kendall Terrace
Kendall Terrace (-62.91667°N, -60.7°W) is an ice-free volcanic ash terrace extending along the northwest side of Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1957 for Lieutenant Edward N. Kendall, Royal Navy (1800-45), surveyor on HMS Chanticleer who made the first survey of Deception Island in January-March 1829.

Mount Kendrick
Mount Kendrick (-86.36667°N, -156.66667°W) is a massive ice-covered mountain, 3,610 m, surmounting the east side of the Nilsen Plateau at the head of Bartlett Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Captain H.E. Kendrick, Operations Officer on the staff of the Commander, U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, in U.S. Navy Operation Deepfreeze 1967.

Kenfield Nunatak
Kenfield Nunatak (-73.76667°N, -99.05°W) is an isolated nunatak which lies about 8 nautical miles (15 km) southeast of the head of Cosgrove Ice Shelf and 17 nautical miles (31 km) east-northeast of Pryor Cliff, at the extreme north end of the Hudson Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Richard E. Kenfield, USGS topographic engineer working from Byrd Station in the 1963-64 season.

Kennar Valley
Kennar Valley (-77.76667°N, 160.41667°W) is a small valley, ice free except for a lobe of ice marginal to Taylor Glacier at the mouth, located west of Finger Mountain in the Quartermain Mountains, Victoria Land. The name appears to be first used on a 1961 New Zealand Lands and Survey Department map compiled from New Zealand field surveys, 1957-60, and U.S. Navy aerial photographs of that period. Presumably named after Thomas Kennar, Royal Navy, Petty Officer on the Discovery during the Discovery expedition, 1901-04, led by R.F. Scott. In November 1903, Kennar and William J. Weller (Mount Weller, q.v.) accompanied Hartley T. Ferrar in the first geological reconnaissance of Quartermain Mountains.

Kennedy Cove
Kennedy Cove (-64.75°N, -64.08333°W) is a cove in Wylie Bay, located north of Loudwater Cove. Named for Henry Kennedy, who was Deputy Director of the Peninsula System for Antarctic Services, and also worked for Antarctic Services Associates. He managed the conversion of the M/V POLAR DUKE from an oil industry supply vessel to a research vessel, and managed the construction of its replacement the R/V LAURENCE M. GOULD.

Kennedy Glacier
Kennedy Glacier (-77.65°N, 162.2°W) is a steep glacier, 0.8 nautical miles (1.5 km) long, flowing east from Kottmeier Mesa into upper Matterhorn Glacier, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after Henry Kennedy, Deputy Director of the Antarctic Peninsula System for ITT Antarctic Services, 1985-90, with responsibility for Palmer Station and MV Polar Duke and procurement for RV Nathaniel B. Palmer. Worked on specialized technical projects with Antarctic Support Associates (ASA) from 1990 to the time of naming.

Kennedy Peak
Kennedy Peak (-67.21667°N, 99.18333°W) is a small peak protruding above the continental ice 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Mount Barr Smith, on the west side of Denman Glacier. Mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for A.L. Kennedy, cartographer with the Australasian Antarctic Expedition Western Base party, in recognition of the close correlation of his 1912-13 running survey of the east half of the Queen Mary Coast with the US-ACAN map of 1955 compiled from aerial photographs.

Kennedy Ridge
Kennedy Ridge (-78.4°N, 162.13333°W) is an ice-covered ridge, 3.5 nautical miles (6 km) long, which is notably straight and extends west from Mount Moxley between Potter Glacier and Wirdnam Glacier, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1994 after Nadene Kennedy, Polar Coordination Specialist, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation (NSF). Associated with NSF Antarctic Program since 1978, including ten working visits to the continent; at the time of naming, NSF liaison with Antarctic tourist industry, responsible for implementing Antarctic Treaty reporting requirements and coordination of Antarctic visitor program.

Cape Kennedy
Cape Kennedy (-66.5°N, 98.53333°W) is a point on the east side of Melba Peninsula, 4 nautical miles (7 km) southwest of David Island. Discovered by the Western Base Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-l4, under Mawson, who named it for A.L. Kennedy, a member of the expedition.

Mount Kennedy
Mount Kennedy (-67.86667°N, 66.21667°W) is a small bare peak standing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south of Mount Rivett in the Gustav Bull Mountains of Mac. Robertson Land. On February 13, 1931, the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Douglas Mawson made a landing on nearby Scullin Monolith. They named this peak for A.L. Kennedy, physicist with BANZARE (1929-31).

Kennel Peak
Kennel Peak (-75.01667°N, -133.73333°W) is a small but notable rock peak (over 800 m) about 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) north of Rockney Ridge in the Demas Range, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-69. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for A. Alexander Kennel, ionospheric physicist, Station Scientific Leader at South Pole Station, 1969.

Kenneth Ridge
Kenneth Ridge (-70.95°N, 71.5°W) is the northernmost of three rock outcrops in the northern part of the Manning Nunataks. The nunataks were photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946-47) and ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) (1957). They were visited by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1965 and by ANARE in 1969. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for Kenneth A. Smith, radio officer at Mawson Station in 1969, a member of the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1969.

Kennett Ridge
Kennett Ridge (-79.85°N, 156.75°W) is a rocky ridge, 6 nautical miles (11 km) long, which descends eastward from the northeast end of Midnight Plateau in the Darwin Mountains. Mapped by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) (1962-63) and named for J.P. Kennett, geologist with the expedition.

Mount Kennett
Mount Kennett (-67.05°N, -65.16667°W) is a distinctive snow and rock mountain (1,360 m) between Quartermain Glacier and Fricker Glacier on the east side of Graham Land. Features on this coast were photographed by several American expeditions: United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939-41; Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48; U.S. Navy photos, 1968. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1947-48. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Peter Kennett, General Assistant with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Larsen Ice Shelf party, 1963-64.

Kenney Glacier
Kenney Glacier (-63.41667°N, -57.03333°W) is a glacier 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) long flowing northwest from The Pyramid and The Saddlestone into Depot Glacier, near the head of Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula. Mapped in 1945 and 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Resurveyed by the FIDS in 1955 and named for Richard R. Kenney, assistant surveyor at Hope Bay in 1954 and 1955, who made a detailed local survey of the area between Hope and Duse Bays.

Kenney Nunatak
Kenney Nunatak (-78.06667°N, 161.5°W) is a conspicuous nunatak rising in Waddington Glacier, 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) south-southwest of Ugolini Peak, Royal Society Range, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1994 after Frank J. Kenney, United States Geological Survey (USGS) cartographer, member of USGS field team for the International Global Positioning System (GPS) Campaign at Byrd Station, McMurdo Station, and Pine Island Bay area, 1991-92. The team established the first continuous-tracking GPS reference station in Antarctica.

Mount Kenney
Mount Kenney (-84.73333°N, -175.46667°W) is a sharp summit (2,030 m) in the Cathedral Peaks, rising 3 nautical miles (6 km) east of Shackleton Glacier and 10 nautical miles (18 km) northwest of Mount Wade, in the Prince Olav Mountains. Discovered and photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for 1st Lieutenant Leroy S. Kenney, United States Marine Corps Reserve (USMCR), helicopter and airplane pilot with U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 during Deep Freeze operations.

Kent Gap
Kent Gap (-83.28333°N, -50.5°W) is an ice-filled gap connecting the heads of May Valley and Chambers Glacier and marking the divide between Lexington and Saratoga Tables, in the Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Kenneth K. Kent, electronics technician at Ellsworth Station, winter 1957.

Kent Glacier
Kent Glacier (-82.83333°N, 163.16667°W) is a glacier which drains the east side of Markham Plateau in the Queen Elizabeth Range and flows east for about 15 nautical miles (28 km) to enter Lowery Glacier. Named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1961-62) after the English county and the Dukedom of Kent.

Kent Plateau
Kent Plateau (-80.73333°N, 157.83333°W) is an ice-covered plateau, 12 nautical miles (22 km) long and 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide, extending northward from Mount Egerton and Kiwi Pass to the vicinity of Mount Hamilton, in the Churchill Mountains. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Commander Donald F. Kent, U.S. Navy, logistics officer to Admiral Dufek at the outset of U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze I, 1955-56.

Kenyon Peaks
Kenyon Peaks (-84.55°N, 163.6°W) is a small group of basalt peaks 3 nautical miles (6 km) northwest of Storm Peak, in the Marshall Mountains. Named by the Ohio State University party to the Queen Alexandra Range (1966-67) for D. Kenyon King, field assistant with the party.

Mount Kenyon
Mount Kenyon (-85.16667°N, -174.86667°W) is a mountain, 2,260 m, standing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) northwest of Shenk Peak in the north part of the Cumulus Hills. Named by F. Alton Wade, leader of the Shackleton Glacier Party of United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) (1962-1963) after Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, his Alma Mater.

Mount Keohane
Mount Keohane (-77.6°N, 162.98333°W) is a peak immediately northwest of Lake Fryxell, rising to 1,250 m between Canada Glacier and Huey Gully on the north side of Taylor Valley, Victoria Land. Named in 1997 by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Petty Officer Patrick Keohane, R.N., of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13. Keohane was a member of Robert F. Scott's South Pole Journey Support Party that reached the Upper Glacier Depot on Beardmore Glacier (85�07'S, 163�04'E) before returning to headquarters on Cape Evans.

Mount Kerckhove de Denterghem
Mount Kerckhove de Denterghem (-72.61667°N, 31.13333°W) is a mountain, 2,400 m, just north of Mount Collard in the Belgica Mountains. Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1957-58, under G. de Gerlache, who named it for Count Charles de Kerckhove de Denterghem, a patron of the expedition.

Kerick Col
Kerick Col (-64.08333°N, -58.4°W) is a col running north-south at 150 m between Gin Cove and Rum Cove, in the west part of James Ross Island. Crisscross Crags rise at the east side of the col. In association with names in this area from Kipling's Jungle Book, named after Kerick Booterin, chief of the seal hunters in The White Seal. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1983.

Kerr Inlet
Kerr Inlet (-80.06667°N, 160.25°W) is an ice-filled inlet, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) wide, located at the west side of Cape Kerr in the north part of Barne Inlet. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in association with Cape Kerr.

Kerr Point
Kerr Point (-64.7°N, -62.63333°W) is a point 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) southeast of Georges Point, on the east side of Ronge Island, off the west coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Adam J. Kerr, Second Officer of RRS Shackleton, who sounded the adjacent Errera Channel in 1956-57.

Cape Kerr
Cape Kerr (-80.05°N, 160.43333°W) is a high snow-covered cape at the north side of Barne Inlet, the terminus of Byrd Glacier at the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered by the Discovery expedition (1901-04) and named for Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Walter Kerr, one of the Sea Lords who lent his assistance to the expedition.

Mount Kerr
Mount Kerr (-70.43333°N, 65.63333°W) is a mountain about 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) south of Mount Creighton in the Porthos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) air photos of 1965. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for A.G. Kerr, physicist at Mawson Station in 1967.

Kershaw Ice Rumples
Kershaw Ice Rumples (-78.75°N, -75.66667°W) is a large area of disturbed ice between Fletcher Ice Rise and Korff Ice Rise, in the southwest part of Ronne Ice Shelf. The feature appears in U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken in the 1960s and in imagery obtained by NASA Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS-1), 1973-74. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for John E.G. Kershaw, senior pilot with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), 1974-75.

Kershaw Peaks
Kershaw Peaks (-64.93333°N, -63.13333°W) is a group of five main peaks, the highest 820 m, standing west of the mouth of Miethe Glacier on the west coast of Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1952. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Dennis Kershaw of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), assistant surveyor at the Arthur Harbor Station in 1956 and at the Danco Island station in 1957.

Mount Kershaw
Mount Kershaw (-67.53333°N, -66.96667°W) is a mountain, 1,180 m, rising above Jones Ice Shelf and Kosiba Wall in the northeast end of Blaiklock Island, off the west coast of Graham Land. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after John E.G. Kershaw (1948-1990), British Antarctic Survey (BAS) senior pilot, 1974-79, and pilot on Transglobe Expedition, 1980-82, and other expeditions. He was killed in a flying accident on Jones Ice Shelf, March 5, 1990, and now rests near the foot of this mountain.

Kessens Peak
Kessens Peak (-86.85°N, -146.68333°W) is a peak, 2,660 m, located 5 nautical miles (9 km) southeast of Mount Paine in the La Gorce Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Gerard R. Kessens of U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6, photographer on Operation Deep Freeze 1966 and 1967.

Kessler Peak
Kessler Peak (-83.61667°N, 167.83333°W) is a conspicuous cone-shaped peak (2,180 m) in Queen Alexandra Range, standing at the east side of Lennox-King Glacier, 4 nautical miles (7 km) west-southwest of Mount Rotolante. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Captain Charles L. Kessler, U.S. Navy, Director of Selective Service System for Virginia. Kessler was a member of the ship's party on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-30) and revisited Antarctica in 1962 and 1965.

Kester Peaks
Kester Peaks (-82.81667°N, -48.38333°W) is a three aligned rock peaks standing together 5 nautical miles (9 km) south of Mount Malville on the east side of Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Larry T. Kester, photographer with U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 during Operation Deep Freeze 1964.

Ketchum Glacier
Ketchum Glacier (-75°N, -63.75°W) is an eastward flowing glacier at the base of Palmer Land, about 50 nautical miles (90 km) long, descending between the Latady and Scaife Mountains into Gardner Inlet. Discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48, under Ronne, who named it for Commander Gerald Ketchum, U.S. Navy, commander of the icebreaker Burton Island which broke the ice to free the RARE from Marguerite Bay for the return home.

Ketchum Ridge
Ketchum Ridge (-76.55°N, 162.33333°W) is the largest ridge that extends east from the south part of Endeavour Massif, Kirkwood Range. Named after Captain Gerald L. Ketchum, U.S. Navy, Deputy Commander of Task Force 43 for Operation Deep Freeze I, II, and III; three seasons, 1955-56 through 1957-58, in command of ships in the Ross Sea Group.

Ketley Point
Ketley Point (-64.7°N, -62.76667°W) is a point forming the west end of Ronge Island, off the west coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for John Ketley, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) assistant surveyor at the Danco Island station in 1956 and at Arthur Harbor in 1957.

Keuken Rock
Keuken Rock (-68.58333°N, 77.83333°W) is a large insular rock lying off the Vestfold Hills, about 1.4 nautical miles (2.6 km) southwest of Barratt Island. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for J. Keuken, weather observer at Davis Station in 1959.

Kevin Islands
Kevin Islands (-63.28333°N, -57.73333°W) is a cluster of small islands and rocks which lie close to the northern coast of Trinity Peninsula, midway between Halpern Point and Coupvent Point. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Kevin M. Scott, member of geological party from the University of Wisconsin (USARP), who carried out independent studies in Gerlache Strait, 1961-62. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Keyhole Island
Keyhole Island (-68.78333°N, -67.33333°W) is a small rocky island lying 5 nautical miles (9 km) southeast of the Terra Firma Islands in the southwest part of Mikkelsen Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. First surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), who applied this name because of the presence of an ice arch formed by the icecap on this island. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Lake Keyhole
Lake Keyhole (-78.13333°N, 163.68333°W) is a very small lake on the south, or Hidden Valley side of The Keyhole. Named by the New Zealand Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1960-61, because of its proximity to The Keyhole.

The Keyhole
The Keyhole (-78.11667°N, 163.68333°W) is a narrow ice-carved slot, or defile, between the Adams Glacier and Hidden Valley. It provides the only low-level entrance to Hidden Valley, and is the key to easy passage between Lake Miers and Ward Glacier. Named by the New Zealand Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) who used it on several occasions during the summer of 1960-61.

Keys Glacier
Keys Glacier (-74.8°N, -114°W) is a glacier flowing northeast from Jenkins Heights between Ellis Ridge and Mount Bray on Bakutis Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1959-67. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1977 after Keith W. Keys, AC1, U.S. Navy, air controller at Williams Field, McMurdo Sound, 1975-76.

Keys Hill
Keys Hill (-77.28333°N, 166.58333°W) is a hill (c1100 m) located at the head of Shearwater Glacier, 2.2 nautical miles (4.1 km) west-southwest of the summit of Mount Bird in northwest Ross Island. Named by New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) (2000) after Gordon Keys, leader of long term NZAP atmospheric research, 1985-95.

Keys Point
Keys Point (-77.23333°N, 166.36667°W) is a projecting point of land at McDonald Beach, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) northwest of Inclusion Hill in northwest Ross Island. At the suggestion of P.R. Kyle, named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after John R. (Harry) Keys, New Zealand geochemist who worked seversl seasons during the 1970s and 1980s under the auspices of NZAP and United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) on investigations as to the origin of salts in the McMurdo Sound area, the Mount Erebus volcano, and the quantity, shapes, and sizes of icebergs in the Antarctic marine environment.

Keyser Nunatak
Keyser Nunatak (-77.6°N, -145.91667°W) is a large nunatak (605 m) at the north side of the terminus of Reynolds Glacier, in the Haines Mountains of Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Antarctic Service (USAS) (1939-41) and by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos (1959-65). Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant (j.g.) Teddy H. Keyser, U.S. Navy, navigator in LC-130F Hercules aircraft during Operation Deep Freeze 1968.

Keyser Ridge
Keyser Ridge (-73.95°N, 63.46667°W) is a snow-covered ridge, trending in a NE-SW direction for 11 nautical miles (20 km), standing 26 nautical miles (48 km) south-southeast of Mount Bayliss in the Prince Charles Mountains, Mac. Robertson Land. Mapped from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) air photos of 1957 and 1960. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for D.O. Keyser, radio officer at Mawson, a member of the 1961 ANARE field party that attempted to reach this ridge but was stopped by impassable crevasses.

Mount Keyser
Mount Keyser (-66.93333°N, 52.38333°W) is a mountain 3 nautical miles (6 km) east of Mount Ryder, in the east part of the Tula Mountains in Enderby Land. Plotted from air photos taken from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) aircraft in 1957. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for D.O. Keyser, radio officer at Mawson Station in 1961.

Keystone Cliffs
Keystone Cliffs (-71.58333°N, -68.21667°W) is a cliffs, 610 m, marking the east face of the sedimentary ridge between Mercury and Venus Glaciers, on the east coast of Alexander Island. The coast in this vicinity was first seen from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935, and roughly mapped from photos obtained on that flight by W.L.G. Joerg. The cliffs were roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) and resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). So named by the FIDS because the geologic structures revealed in these cliffs provided the key to the general tectonic structure of the area.

Khamsin Pass
Khamsin Pass (-69.48333°N, -67.75°W) is a pass at 750 m, running north-south between Relay Hills and the Kinnear Mountains, southward of Wordie Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. An important pass used by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), 1936-37, and subsequent parties, it allows easy access from the Wordie Ice Shelf into Palmer Land. Named in 1977 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in association with other wind names in the area. Khamsin is the warm southerly wind in Egypt that comes from the Sahara.

Khmara Bay
Khmara Bay (-67.33333°N, 49°W) is a small bay lying directly south of Zubchatyy Ice Shelf and Sakellari Peninsula, in Enderby Land. Photographed by ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) in 1956 and explored by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named by Soviet Antarctic Expedition after tractor driver I.F. Khamara, who lost his life when his tractor broke through the ice at Mirnyy Station in January 1956.

Khmara Island
Khmara Island (-66.55°N, 93°W) is a small island lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south of Haswell Island, Queen Mary Coast. Mapped from aerial photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Remapped by Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1956 and named after I.F. Khmara (Khmara Bay, q.v.). == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Mount Khmyznikov
Mount Khmyznikov (-71.86667°N, 11.65°W) is a peak, 2,800 m, in the north part of Skeidsnutane Peaks, Betekhtin Range, in the Humboldt Mountains of Queen Maud Land. Discovered and plotted from air photos by German Antarctic Expedition, 1938-39. Mapped from air photos and surveys by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956-60; remapped by Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1960-61, and named after Soviet hydrographer P.K. Khmyznikov.

Khufu Corrie
Khufu Corrie (-71.31667°N, -68.31667°W) is a cirque roughly 0.3 nautical miles (0.6 km) by 0.3 nautical miles (0.6 km) formed between Drune Hill to the north and Khufu Peak to the S. It was referred to as Fossil Bluff Glacier in scientific reports in the early 1960s, and is sometimes referred to today as Moraine Corrie and Moraine Corrie Valley. The name is derived from the nearby feature named Khufu Peak.

Khufu Peak
Khufu Peak (-71.33333°N, -68.26667°W) is a peak rising to about 745 m near the center of the Fossil Bluff massif, east Alexander Island. For many years this was known to British Antarctic Survey (BAS) workers by the unofficial descriptive name "Pyramid," a name already in use. To avoid duplication, in 1987 the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) applied a new name after Khufu, second Pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt, who erected the Great Pyramid of El Giza.

Khyber Pass
Khyber Pass (-60.71667°N, -45.6°W) is a steep-sided pass between the northeast side of McLeod Glacier and Rusty Bluff on Signy Island, South Orkney Islands. A well-used route by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) personnel providing access to Gourlay Peninsula from Moraine Valley. The name, after the storied Khyber Pass, was in local use for many years prior to adoption by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1990.

Mount Kibal'chich
Mount Kibal'chich (-71.93333°N, 14.31667°W) is the highest peak, 2,500 m, of the Kvaevenutane Peaks, in the Payer Mountains of Queen Maud Land. Discovered and plotted from air photos by German Antarctic Expedition, 1938-39. Mapped from air photos and surveys by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956-60; remapped by Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1960-61, and named after the Russian revolutionary N.I. Kibal'chich, 1854-81.

Kichenside Glacier
Kichenside Glacier (-67.76667°N, 47.6°W) is a glacier, 15 nautical miles (28 km) long and 3 to 5 nautical miles (9 km) wide, flowing northeast into the south part of Hannan Ice Shelf on the coast of Enderby Land. Charted from air photos taken from an ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) aircraft in 1956. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for Squadron Leader J. Kichenside, RAAF, officer commanding the Antarctic Flight at Mawson Station in 1960.

Kidd Islands
Kidd Islands (-66.45°N, -65.98333°W) is a small group of islands within Darbel Bay, lying just south of Darbel Islands off the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) in 1956-57. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for D.A. Kidd, British physicist who in 1888, with J.C. McConnel, made pioneer tests of the deformation of ice single crystals. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Kidson Island
Kidson Island (-67.2°N, 61.18333°W) is an island 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) long, lying 15 nautical miles (28 km) north-northeast of Byrd Head. Discovered in February 1931 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson, and named by him for Edward Kidson. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Cape Kidson
Cape Kidson (-73.4°N, -60.75°W) is an abrupt rock scarp which rises to 300 m, forming the north side of the entrance to New Bedford Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land. First sighted and photographed from the air by members of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) in 1940. During 1947 the cape was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), who in conjunction with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) charted it from the ground. Named by the FIDS for Edward Kidson, New Zealand meteorologist and author of the meteorological reports of the British Antarctic Expedition under Shackleton, 1907-09, and the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Mawson, 1911-14.

Kieffer Knoll
Kieffer Knoll (-82.48333°N, 162.65°W) is a rocky knoll which marks the extreme northeast corner of the Queen Elizabeth Range. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Hugh H. Kieffer, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) glaciologist at Roosevelt Island, 1961-62.

Kiel Glacier
Kiel Glacier (-78.13333°N, -154.25°W) is a broad, heavily crevassed glacier descending southwest from Edward VII Peninsula just east of the Rockefeller Mountains. The glacier was partially delineated from aerial photographs obtained by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-30) and subsequently was observed from the air by several U.S. expeditions to the area. It is named for driver Max R. Kiel, U.S. Navy, Mobile Construction Battalion, who lost his life on March 5, 1956, when his tractor fell into a crevasse about 20 nautical miles (37 km) westward of this glacier while attempting to establish a trail to Byrd Station.

Kienle Cirque
Kienle Cirque (-78.06667°N, 167.35°W) is an ice-filled cirque, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) wide, the largest cirque on the west side of White Island, Ross Archipelago. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1999) after Juergen Kienle (d.), Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, a team leader for the investigation of volcanic activity and seismicity at nearby Mount Erebus in six seasons, 1980-81 through 1985-86.

Kienle Nunataks
Kienle Nunataks (-77.46667°N, 168.6°W) is a three aligned nunataks to the north of Mount Terror in northeast Ross Island. The nunataks trend east-west for 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) and rise to c.1700 m. The central nunatak is 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) north-northeast of the Mount Terror summit. At the suggestion of P.R. Kyle, named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Juergen Kienle (d.), Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, a United States Antarctic Program (USAP) team leader for the investigation of volcanic activity and seismicity on Mount Erebus in six field seasons, 1980-81 through 1985-86.

Kikko Terrace
Kikko Terrace (-68.13333°N, 42.66667°W) is a rocky terrace rising to 150 m about 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) south-southeast of Cape Hinode. The feature was mapped by the JapARE from surveys and air photos obtained 1957-62. The Japanese form of the name, "Kikko-ga-hara" (tortoise shells terrace), and the English form, Kikko Terrace, were given by the Antarctic Place-Names Committee of Japan in 1973.

Kilby Island
Kilby Island (-66.26667°N, 110.51667°W) is a rocky island, 0.2 nautical miles (0.4 km) long, lying close northeast of McMullin Island in the entrance of Newcomb Bay, in the Windmill Islands. First mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Arthur L. Kilby, who served as photographer with the central task group of U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47, and with U.S. Navy Operation Windmill which obtained air and ground photos of the Windmill Islands in January 1948. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Kilby Reef
Kilby Reef (-66.28333°N, 110.53333°W) is a small, isolated reef, which uncovers at low water, lying 0.15 nautical miles (0.3 km) southeast of Kilhy Island, in the Windmill Islands. First charted in February 1957 by a survey party led by Lieutenant R.C. Newcomb, U.S. Navy, of the USS Glacier. Recharted by ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) in 1962, during a hydrographic survey of Newcomb Bay by d'A.T. Gale. Named by ANARE after Kilby Island.

Kiletangen Ice Tongue
Kiletangen Ice Tongue (-69.95°N, 26.41667°W) is a narrow projection of the ice shelf on the east side of Tangekilen Bay, along the coast of Queen Maud Land. First mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and named Kiletangen (the bay tongue).

Kilfoyle Nunataks
Kilfoyle Nunataks (-70.71667°N, 65.85°W) is a two nunataks lying 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) southwest of Mount Dowie in the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) air photos. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for B. Kilfoyle, physicist at Mawson Station in 1966.

Killer Nunatak
Killer Nunatak (-71.9°N, 160.46667°W) is a granite nunatak (2,080 m) near the center of the Emlen Peaks, 5 nautical miles (9 km) northwest of Mount Phelen, in the Usarp Mountains. Named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1963-64, for its distinctive outline resembling the dorsal fin of a killer whale.

Killer Ridge
Killer Ridge (-77.2°N, 162.1°W) is a dark ridge rising over 1,000 m between Crisp and Miller Glaciers in the Gonville and Caius Range, in Victoria Land. Charted by the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13) and named after the killer whale, whose outline the ridge is said to resemble.

Killermet Cove
Killermet Cove (-64.86667°N, -63.11667°W) is the southernmost of two coves indenting the west side of Bryde Island, off the west coast of Graham Land. The cove appears on an Argentine government chart of 1950. So named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 because three members of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) were chased into this cove in their dinghies by six killer whales while circumnavigating Bryde Island in May 1957.

Killingbeck Island
Killingbeck Island (-67.56667°N, -68.08333°W) is a small island lying east of Rothera Point, off the southeast coast of Adelaide Island. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1964 for John B. Killingbeck, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) glaciologist in 1960-63. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Kilroy Bluff
Kilroy Bluff (-81.25°N, 159.7°W) is an ice-covered bluff, 1040 m, on the west side of  Nursery Glacier at the junction with Jorda Glacier in Churchill Mountains. The east face of the feature is indented by twin cirques that resemble eyes. Under certain light conditions the appearance of the bluff is reminiscent of ubiquitous Kilroy graffiti of World War II: a caricature of a head peering over a wall and the message "Kilroy was here".

Mount Kinet
Mount Kinet (-73.23333°N, 165.9°W) is a large, rounded mountain (2,180 m) on the south side of upper Meander Glacier, 5 nautical miles (9 km) southeast of Hobbie Ridge, in the Mountaineer Range of Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Urbain J. Kinet, biologist at McMurdo Station, 1965-66.