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A snow-covered plateau, 540 square km in area, on the eastern side of the lower Marsh Glacier. Discovered by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-62). Named after Sir Charles Cotton, New Zealand geomorphologist and authority on glacial landforms.

An island in the William Scoresby Archipelago about 2 km north of Islay.

A rocky peninsula projecting from the ice in the northern part of the Bunger Hills. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) Named by USACAN after J Countess, air crewman on the Operation Highjump seaplane which landed on one of the lakes in the Bunger Hills in February, 1947. NOTE: It has the name Skalistyj, poluostrov in the Russian gazetteer.

A small island, partly contained in a glacier tongue on the Ingrid Christensen Coast about 3 km west of Amanda Bay. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936). First visited by an ANARE survey party led by Max J Corry in February 1969.

A dolerite feature south of Plumstead Valley in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964) and so named because of its jaunty appearance in profile.

A small bay to the south of Budnick Hill in the southern part of Newcomb Bay, Windmill Islands. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1956-57). Named by USACAN for Robert I. Crane electronics technician 3D Class.   This feature is also known, unofficially, as Shannon Bay.

A series of about eight spectacular icefalls, in an east-west line, falling steeply into the narrowest portion of Darwin Glacier near its mouth. Named by the Darwin Glacier Party of the TAE (1956-58) after W J Cranfield, a member of the Darwin Glacier Party.

A crescent shaped lake in the Vestfold Hills measuring about 300 m by 75 m on an ice covered moraine.

A steep rock buttress running south from Budd Ridge to the nivi of the Fiftyone Glacier, Heard Island.

A rock in the Mackellar Islands lying to the north and north-west of Cape Denison, on the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named the group of islands after C.D. Mackellar of London, a patron of the expedition.

"Named in recognition of its distinctive shape, with a long and thin western promontory reminiscent of a crocodile jaw."

An island in Amundsen Bay, Enderby Land, just east of Beaver Island. Discovered in 1956 by an airborne field party led by Peter W Crohn, after whom it was named.

A large, domed massif west of Mt Kirkby in the Porthos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. It is approximately 7 km long east-west and 4 km wide, rising about 460 m above the surrounding plateau. It is not visible from the east or north-east. There are two small conical peaks of the eastern extremity. Sighted by the ANARE southern party, led by William G Bewsher, in January 1957, and named after Peter W Crohn, geologist at Mawson in 1955 and 1956.

A group of islands, north-east of Hollin Island, Windmill Islands. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956 & 1962) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named after C Cronk, glaciologist at Wilkes in 1958.  

Crooked Fjord is a marine inlet extending from Omega Cove to the western extent of Mule Peninsula, a length of about 11km long. It lies between the Sørsdal Glacier and Mule Peninsula, in the southern part of the Vestfold Hills.

An irregular-shaped island about 2 km across in the centre of a group of islands about 9 km ESE of the Øygarden Group, off Kemp Land.

An irregularly shaped lake about 5 km long in the south-east part of the Vestfold Hills. Mapped as two lakes by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Krokvatnet (The Crooked Lake) and Nyrevatnet (The Kidney Lake).

A group of nunataks in the Tula Mountains, Enderby Land, about 3 km north-east of Mount Morrison. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1956. Named after W E Crosby, a member of the crew of the Discovery during BANZARE (1929-31).

A high, ice-capped feature, with exposed rock on the steep eastern ridge, about 19 km east of Hay Hills on the Mawson Escarpment, Mac.Robertson Land. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and 1960. A fuel depot was established nearby during the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey in 1972. Named after John Cruise, miner at Mawson in 1971.

A small pond in the Vestfold Hills approximately 20 m in diameter on an ice covered moraine. There is a prominent ice cliff on the eastern side. The surface freezes to form long needles or crystals of ice.