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Commonwealth Glacier (Antarctica)

Commonwealth Glacier () is a glacier which flows in a southeastern direction and enters the northern side of Taylor Valley immediately west of Mount Coleman, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Charted and named by the British Antarctic Expedition (BrAE) under Scott, 1910-13.

Mount Erebus (Antarctica)

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Mount Discovery (Antarctica)

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Ross Island (Antarctica)

Ross Island is an island formed by three volcanoes in the Ross Sea by Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound at . Its area is 2,460 km².

Mount Morning (Antarctica)

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McMurdo Station (Antarctica)

McMurdo Station, located at , sits on the southern tip of Ross Island in Antarctica, on the shore of McMurdo Sound, 2,200 miles (3,500 km) due south of New Zealand. It is located in the Ross Dependency, the Antarctic territory administered by New Zealand.

Scott Base (Antarctica)

Scott Base is a base located at in Antarctica, operated by New Zealand. It was named after Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Royal Navy, leader of two British expeditions to the Ross Sea area of Antarctica.

Koettlitz Glacier (Antarctica)

The Koettlitz Glacier () is a large Antarctic glacier lying west of Mount Morning and Mount Discovery, flowing from the vicinity of Mount Cocks northeastward between Brown Peninsula and the mainland into the ice shelf of McMurdo Sound.

Inaccessible Island (Dellbridge Islands) (Antarctica)

Inaccessible Island is a small rocky island, the northernmost of the Dellbridge Islands, lying 1 mile southwest of Cape Evans, Ross Island. Inaccessible Island is located at .

Quinn Gully (Antarctica)

Quinn Gully () 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. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after Thomas Quinn, Supervisor of Continental Air Operations, Antarctic Support Associates.

Quaternary Icefall (Antarctica)

Quaternary Icefall () is a western lobe of the Mount Bird icecap, descending steeply into Wohlschlag Bay 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Cinder Hill on Ross Island.

Alph River (Antarctica)

Alph River () was named by Griffith Taylor of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1911-13 (Captain Robert Scott) from a passage in Coleridge's poem: "Where Alph the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea." The nearby Xanadu Hills are named from the same poem.

Xanadu Hills (Antarctica)

Xanadu Hills () are a ridge of hills lying between Ward Valley and the Alph River in Victoria Land. They were named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1994 in connection with the adjacent Alph River, an earlier name inspired by a poem of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Castle Rock (Antarctica) (Antarctica)

Castle Rock () is a bold rock crag, 415 m, standing 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Hut Point on the central ridge of Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island.

White Island (Ross Archipelago) (Antarctica)

White Island () is an island in the Ross Archipelago, 15 miles long, protruding through the Ross Ice Shelf immediately east of Black Island. Discovered by the Discovery expedition (1901-04) and so named by them because of the mantle of snow which covers it.

McMurdo Ice Shelf (Antarctica)

McMurdo Ice Shelf () is that portion of the Ross Ice Shelf bounded by McMurdo Sound and Ross Island on the north and Minna Bluff on the south. Studies show this feature has characteristics quite distinct from the Ross Ice Shelf and merits individual naming.

Lake Fryxell (Antarctica)

Lake Fryxell () is a lake 4.5 km (3 mi) long, between Canada Glacier and Commonwealth Glaciers at the lower end of Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica.