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A line of nunataks, about 15 km south of Budd Peak, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1957. Named after S W Church, radio officer at Wilkes in 1961.

A rock in the sea in the southern part of Corinthian Bay, Heard Island.

An important group of mountains between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier. These mountains include such towering features as Mount Wharton, Mount Albert Markham and Mount Nares. Named by the USACAN after the late Sir Winston Churchill.

The north-western point of Holl Island, Windmill Islands. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after R W Churchill, radioman at Wilkes in 1958.  

A nunatak lying north of the Ugly Sisters Nunatak in the névé area at the head of the Byrd Glacier. Discovered and named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic expedition (1960-61).

An almost inpenetrable icefall, about 46 m high and 28 km long, extending in an arc for almost the whole width of the Darwin Glacier. Named by the Darwin Glacier Party of the TAE (1956-58) because of its similarity to the circle of an opera house.

A fjord on the southern side of Law Promontory. The area was first visited by an ANARE party led by Peter W Crone in 1956. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Botnfjorden (The Cirque Fjord).

Dr. Jan Cisak was a member of the 1978/79 Polish summer expedition to Bunger Hills and was the astronomer and geodesist with Professor Krzeminski as the station leader. Jan's work with the Polish institute of Geodesy and Cartography resulted in a large scale photomap of the station region together with geodetic and geodynamic measurements in the Bunger Hills. Dr. Cisak wrote many geodetic research papers including two co-authored by him for the IPY publication “Geodetic and Geo-physical Observations in Antarctica – An Overview in the IPY Perspective". He was also the Polish national representative at SCAR WG-GGI meetings in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006

A partly snow-covered, rock ridge, about 37 km ESE of Mount Hicks. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1960. Named after E L Clague, weather observer at Wilkes in 1962.

A rocky outcrop connected to the continental ice of the Budd Coast. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Wilkes station was established on the peninsula by the United States of America in 1957. Named by USACAN after Captain J E Clark, USN, Captain of USS Currituck, flagship of the western task group of USN Operation Highjump, Task Force 68 (1946-47).  

An ice-covered point on the headland at the eastern side of Pauling Bay, Banzare Coast, Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and named by USACAN after G W Clark, midshipman on the sloop Peacock, one of the ships of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Lieut. (later Rear Admiral) C Wilkes, USN.

A bluff at the eastern end of Feeney Ridge in Oates Land, about 13 km south-east of Parkinson Peak. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after Lieut. J B Clarke, USN, navigator in US Navy aircraft during US Operations Deepfreeze 67 and 68.

A lake about 1 km across in the western end of Mule Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Photographed by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37), USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), and ANARE 1956, 1957 and 1958. First visited by an ANARE party from Davis station during 1958.

A small island to the north of the Bølingen Islands in the southern part of the Prydz Bay, about 5 km ESE of Lichen Island. The island is split by a deep channel about six metres wide. The island was plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and called Lørten by Norwegian cartographers. The first landing was made on the island by an ANARE party from the MV Nella Dan led by Phillip Law on 18 February 1966.

A fjord, extending NW-SE between Fisher Island and Lied Promontory in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Broknesdalen (the Broken Cape Valley).

A large rock outcrop on the eastern side of the Lambert Glacier, at its northern end. It is elongated north-south, approximately 7 km wide and 28 km long and is 1,325 m above sea level. Discovered from an ANARE aircraft in 1957. Named after Squadron Leader Peter H Clemence, RAAF, who commanded the Antarctic Flight at Mawson in 1957.

The eastern side of Dalk¿y, an island at the eastern end of the Larsemann Hills, which is a steep stepped rock face.

A group of several, small, off-shore islands, almost entirely ice-capped, off the coast of George V Land. Discovered by A A E (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named them after J H Close, a member of the expedition.

An island in the southern Windmill Islands off the Budd Coast, between Ford Island and Herring Island. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after J R Cloyd, Army Transport Service observer with USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).  

A salt-water lake about 11 km ENE of Davis station in the Vestfold Hills. The shape resembles a club which is elongated north-east to south-west. It is about 3.4 km long and has a maximum width of 0.5 km. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). First visited by an ANARE party led by Phillip Law in 1955.