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Mount Quackenbush
Mount Quackenbush (-80.35°N, 156.96667°W) is a flat-topped mountain, 2,435 m, which forms a projecting angle along the steep cliffs bordering the north side of Byrd Glacier, just west of Peckham Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Captain Robert S. Quackenbush, Jr., chief of staff to Admiral Cruzen (Central Group of Task Force 68) in U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47, led by Admiral Byrd.

The Quadrangle
The Quadrangle (-71.58333°N, -68.6°W) is an ice-covered area (essentially a glacial cirque) enclosed on three sides by rock ridges, but open to the south, lying between Mount Umbriel and Venus Glacier in eastern Alexander Island. Mapped by Directorate of Overseas Surveys from satellite imagery supplied by U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with U.S. Geological Survey. The feature was so named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in description of its shape.

Quadrant Peak
Quadrant Peak (-57.1°N, -26.78333°W) is a peak (430 m) forming the summit of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands. The peak forms a narrow ridge above the uniform slopes of the original volcanic cone, and is a quadrant of what was probably once a circular mass cone. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1971.

Quam Heights
Quam Heights (-71.05°N, 167.8°W) is a mostly snow-covered heights, 15 nautical miles (28 km) long and 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide, rising over 1,000 m and forming the coastline between the Barnett and Dennistoun Glaciers in northern Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photography, 1960-63. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Louis O. Quam, Chief Scientist, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 1967-72.

Mount Quandary
Mount Quandary (-64.86667°N, -61.56667°W) is a mountain on the east side and near the head of Hektoria Glacier, 12 nautical miles (22 km) northwest of Shiver Point, in Graham Land. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1955; the name arose because when first viewed it could not be determined whether the feature was part of the central plateau of Graham Land or a detached summit in Hektoria Glacier.

Quar Ice Shelf
Quar Ice Shelf (-71.33333°N, -11°W) is the ice shelf between Cape Norvegia and Sorasen Ridge along the coast of Queen Maud Land. Mapped by Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE), 1949-52, whose Maudheim Station was located on this ice shelf. Named for Leslie Quar, British radio mechanic and electrician with NBSAE, who drowned when the weasel (track-driven vehicle) in which he was riding drove over the edge of this ice shelf, February 24, 1951.

Quarles Range
Quarles Range (-85.6°N, -164.5°W) is a high and rugged range of the Queen Maud Mountains, extending from the polar plateau between Cooper and Bowman Glaciers and terminating near the edge of Ross Ice Shelf. Peaks in the range were first sighted by Captain Roald Amundsen in 1911, and the range was mapped in detail by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Donald A. Quarles, Sec. of the Air Force, 1955-57, and Deputy Sec. of Defense, 1957-59, at the outset of the International Geophysical Year and organization of U.S. activity in Antarctica.

Quarterdeck Ridge
Quarterdeck Ridge (-72.45°N, 170.26667°W) is the undulating, north-south snow crest of Hallett Peninsula. For the most part this crest is very close to the great 1,500 meter Cotter Cliffs that fall abruptly to the Ross Sea. So named by New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1957-58, because impressions obtained in traversing along it recall those in walking the quarterdeck of a ship.

Quartermain Glacier
Quartermain Glacier (-67.01667°N, -65.15°W) is a well-defined, highly-crevassed glacier on the north side of Fricker Glacier, from which it is separated in its upper reaches by Mount Kennett. It flows from the plateau into Mill Inlet on the east coast of Graham Land. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Leslie B. Quartermain (Quartermain Mountains, Quartermain Point, q.v.), New Zealand historian of the Antarctic and author of South to the Pole. The early history of the Ross Sea Sector (London, 1967).

Quartermain Mountains
Quartermain Mountains (-77.85°N, 160.75°W) is a group of exposed mountains, about 20 nautical miles (37 km) long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount Feather and Tabular Mountain; also including Knobhead, Terra Cotta Mountain, New Mountain, Beacon Heights, Pyramid Mountain, Arena Valley, Kennar Valley, Turnabout Valley and the several valleys and ridges within Beacon Valley. The mountains were visited by British expeditions led by R.F. Scott (1901-04 and 1910-13) and E.H. Shackleton (1907-09), which applied several names. Names were added in the years subsequent to IGY, 1957-58, concurrent with research carried out by New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) and United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) field parties, and to fulfill the requirement for maps compiled from U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1947-83. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1977 after Lester Bowden Quartermain (1895-1973), New Zealand Antarctic historian.

Quartermain Point
Quartermain Point (-72.05°N, 170.13333°W) is a prominent point in the north part of Moubray Bay between Helm Point and Cape Roget. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1957-58, for L.B. Quartermain, president, New Zealand Antarctic Society, who took a close interest in the work of the expedition.

Quartz Hills
Quartz Hills (-85.93333°N, -132.83333°W) is an arcuate group of mainly ice-free hills and peaks standing immediately south of Colorado Glacier along the west side of Reedy Glacier. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-64. The name was proposed by John H. Mercer, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) geologist to these hills in 1964-65, because there is much rose quartz in the superficial deposits of the hills.

Quartz Pebble Hill
Quartz Pebble Hill (-84.73333°N, -113.98333°W) is a flat-topped elevation on the north escarpment of Buckeye Table, Ohio Range, in the Horlick Mountains. The hill is located where Discovery Ridge joins the main escarpment. The rock that forms the hill is composed of sandstone and quartz pebble conglomerate. The name was suggested by William E. Long, geologist of the Ohio State University expedition, who worked in these mountains in 1960-61 and 1961-62.

Quaternary Icefall
Quaternary Icefall (-77.3°N, 166.5°W) is a western lobe of the Mount Bird icecap, descending steeply into Wohlschlag Bay 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south of Cinder Hill on Ross Island. Mapped and so named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1958-59, because of the Quaternary glacial period marine shells carried by the glacier and deposited in terminal moraines.

Quaver Nunatak
Quaver Nunatak (-71°N, -70.28333°W) is a small nunatak rising to about 250 m, the northernmost exposure of the Walton Mountains, Alexander Island. So named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) (1977) after the musical term, reflecting the small size of the feature and in association with the names of composers in this area.

Queen Alexandra Range
Queen Alexandra Range (-84°N, 168°W) is a major mountain range, about 100 nautical miles (180 km) long, bordering the entire west side of Beardmore Glacier from the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau. Discovered on the journey toward the South Pole by the British Antarctic Expedition (1907-09), and named by Shackleton for Alexandra, Queen of England, 1901-10.

Queen Elizabeth Range
Queen Elizabeth Range (-83.33333°N, 161.5°W) is a rugged mountain range paralleling the east side of Marsh Glacier for nearly 100 nautical miles (180 km) from Nimrod Glacier in the north to Law Glacier in the south. Mount Markham, 4,350 m, is the highest elevation in the range. Named by J.H. Miller of the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956-58) who, with G.W. Marsh, explored this area. It was named for Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, the patron of the expedition.

Queen Fabiola Mountains
Queen Fabiola Mountains (-71.5°N, 35.66667°W) is a group of mountains, 30 nautical miles (60 km) long, consisting mainly of seven small massifs which trend north-south, forming a partial barrier to the flow of inland ice. The mountains stand in isolation about 90 nautical miles (170 km) southwest of the head of Lutzow-Holm Bay. Discovered and photographed from aircraft by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1960, under Guido Derom, on October 8, 1960, and named with the permission of the King for Dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, on the occasion of her wedding with King Baudouin of Belgium. In November-December 1960, the mountains were visited by a party of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition which made geomorphological and geological surveys. They applied the name "Yamato Mountains."

Queen Mary Coast
Queen Mary Coast (-66.75°N, 96°W) is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between Cape Filchner, in 9154E, and Cape Hordern, in 10030E. Discovered in February 1912 by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14) under the leadership of Douglas Mawson, who named it for Queen Mary of England.

Queen Maud Bay
Queen Maud Bay (-54.23333°N, -37.38333°W) is a V-shaped bay 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) wide at the entrance, lying immediately north of Nunez Peninsula along the south coast of South Georgia. Roughly charted in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen. Named prior to 1922 for Queen Maud, wife of King Haakon VII of Norway, probably by Norwegian whalers who frequented this coast.

Queen Maud Land
Queen Maud Land (-72.5°N, 12°W) is that part of Antarctica lying between the terminus of Stancomb-Wills Glacier, in 2000W, and Shinnan Glacier, in 4438E. This name, given for Queen Maud of Norway, represents an expansion from that of the original core area, between 3700 and 5000E, discovered by Captain Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen in 1930.

Queen Maud Mountains
Queen Maud Mountains (-86°N, -160°W) is a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau. Captain Roald Amundsen and his South Pole party ascended Axel Heiberg Glacier near the central part of this group in November 1911, naming these mountains for the Queen of Norway. Elevations bordering the Beardmore Glacier, at the western extremity of these mountains, were observed by the British expeditions led by E.H. Shackleton (1907-09) and R.F. Scott (1910-13), but the mountains as a whole were mapped by several American expeditions led by R.E. Byrd (1930s and 1940s), and United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) and New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) expeditions from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Mount Queensland
Mount Queensland (-74.26667°N, 163.93333°W) is a prominent mountain, 1,910 m, standing 7 nautical miles (13 km) north of Mount Dickason in the Deep Freeze Range, Victoria Land. Discovered by the Discovery expedition, 1901-04, which named this mountain for the State of Queensland, Australia, in recognition of the assistance given the expedition by its government.

Mount Queequeg
Mount Queequeg (-65.65°N, -62.13333°W) is a conspicuous, partly snow-covered mountain with three conical summits, the highest 900 m, between the mouths of Starbuck and Stubb Glaciers on the east coast of Graham Land. Surveyed and photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1956 after Starbuck's harpooner on the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

Queer Mountain
Queer Mountain (-77.13333°N, 161.75°W) is a conspicuous black mountain (1,180 m) with steep slopes showing bands of sandstone above the granite, standing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) west of Killer Ridge, between the Cotton and Miller Glaciers, in Victoria Land. Mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13) and so named because, though surrounded by glacier, it has nearly every rock in the district, including coal beds, represented on its cliffs.

Quensel Glacier
Quensel Glacier (-54.76667°N, -35.83333°W) is a small glacier flowing southeast into Cooper Bay at the east tip of South Georgia. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Percy D. Quensel, Swedish geologist of Uppsala University, who visited South Georgia with Carl Skottsberg in 1909.

Quervain Peak
Quervain Peak (-67.38333°N, -66.65°W) is a peak in the central part of the Boyle Mountains in Graham Land. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from surveys and air photos, 1956-59. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Alfred de Quervain, Swiss glaciologist who in 1909 first applied photogrammetric methods to the measurement of surface glacier flow.

Query Island
Query Island (-68.8°N, -67.2°W) is a prominent rocky island lying between the foot of Clarke Glacier and Keyhole Island on the south side of Mikkelsen Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. Surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), who so named it because of the difficulty in deciding from a distance whether the feature was an island or part of the mainland. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Quest Channel
Quest Channel (-67.8°N, -69.01667°W) is a channel leading southwestward from Adelaide Anchorage between Hibbert Rock and Henkes Islands, off the south end of Adelaide Island. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after the survey motorboat charted this area in 1963.

Quest Cliffs
Quest Cliffs (-82.6°N, 155.16667°W) is a line of steep east-facing cliffs immediately north of The Slot in the Geologists Range. Seen by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1961-62) and named after the Quest, the ship of the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-22.

Quest Nunatak
Quest Nunatak (-81.51667°N, -28.16667°W) is a northeasternmost of the Whichaway Nunataks, 1,065 m. First mapped in 1957 by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and so named because it was the last rock outcrop visited on the transpolar route of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in December 1957 when a further search was made for plant fossils previously found in the area by the expedition's geologist.

Mount Quilmes
Mount Quilmes (-63.23333°N, -55.61667°W) is a mainly snow-covered mountain, 715 m, standing northeast of Haddon Bay on Joinville Island. The name was given during the course of the Argentine Antarctic Expedition (1953-54) and memorializes the battle of the same name in which the Argentine squadron of Admiral Guillermo Brown was engaged.

Quilp Rock
Quilp Rock (-67.61667°N, -67.78333°W) is a small, isolated rock in Laubeuf Fjord, lying 3.5 nautical miles (6 km) south-southeast of the south tip of Pinero Island and 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) off the northwest side of Pourquoi Pas Island, off the west coast of Graham Land. First surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), and named by them after the dwarf, Daniel Quilp, a vicious, ill-tempered character in The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens.

Quilty Nunataks
Quilty Nunataks (-75.75°N, -71.75°W) is a group of nunataks which extend over 8 nautical miles (15 km), located 15 nautical miles (28 km) southwest of Thomas Mountains in eastern Ellsworth Land. Discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48, led by Ronne. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Patrick Quilty, geologist with the University of Wisconsin survey party to this area, 1965-66.

Quinault Pass
Quinault Pass (-70.81667°N, -69.46667°W) is a snow pass trending north-south between Lully Foothills and LeMay Range in central Alexander Island. Photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48, and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1960. Named in association with the foothills by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), 1977, after Philippe Quinault (1635-88), French librettist who collaborated with J.B. Lully in three operas.

Quinn Gully
Quinn Gully (-77.53333°N, 163.5°W) is a mainly ice-free gully, descending between MacDonald Hills and Hjorth Hill to Explorers Cove, New Harbor, at the lower end of Taylor Valley, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after Thomas Quinn, Supervisor of Continental Air Operations, Antarctic Support Associates.

Quintana Island
Quintana Island (-65.15°N, -64.95°W) is a small isolated island, lying 6 nautical miles (11 km) northeast of Betbeder Islands in the southwest part of the Wilhelm Archipelago. First charted as a group of islands by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05, and named by Charcot for Manuel Quintana (1836-1906), then President of Argentina. A survey in 1957-58 by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit found only one island in this position. == See also == * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

Quinton Point
Quinton Point (-64.31667°N, -63.68333°W) is a point at the north side of the entrance to Perrier Bay, on the northwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago. First charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05, and named by Charcot after Rene Quinton (1867-1925), French naturalist, then assistant at the Laboratoire de Pathologie Physiologique, College de France.

Quito Glacier
Quito Glacier (-62.45°N, -59.78333°W) is a glacier flowing north into the sea west of Canto Point in north Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Named after the capital of Ecuador, c.1990, by the Ecuadorian Antarctic Expedition.

Quonset Glacier
Quonset Glacier (-85.31667°N, -127.08333°W) is a glacier about 20 nautical miles (37 km) long which drains the north slopes of Wisconsin Range between Mount LeSchack and Ruseski Buttress and trends west-northwest to enter the north side of Davisville Glacier. 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) after the Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island, home base of Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6).