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The bay is a crescent shaped shallow marine embayment on the western side of Broad Peninsula in the Vestfold Hills, between Plough Island and the peninsula.

A group of small rocky islands about 5 km ENE of Cape Denison, George V Land. Discovered in January, 1912, by the Main Base party of AAE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named them after C.F. Laseron, a member of the AAE expedition.

A short, broad glacier lying between the Lashly Mountains on the west and the Mt Feather - Tabular Mountain block (Ross Dependency) on the east. It flows south from a poorly defined ice divide from the upper Taylor Glacier, into the upper Skelton Glacier. So named by the New Zealand party of TAE (1956-58) because of its proximity to the Lashly Mountains.

Mountains rising to 2,620 m above sea level standing near the edge of the polar plateau and south of the head of the Taylor Glacier in Victoria Land. These mountains, which are partly in the Ross Dependency, were discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904) under Scott who named them after Leading-Stoker William Lashly, RN, a member of the expedition.

An island 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.

A small permanently frozen lake at the foot of a steep ice slope in the Framnes Mountains. It has a pressure dome in the centre and is about 2.2 ha in area. The lake is near Rumdoodle hut.

An inlet on Mule Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, just west of Laternula Lake. Visited by an ANARE geological and biological party in January-February 1972.

A lake about 1 km SSW of Clear Lake on Mule Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. The lake was visited by an ANARE Biological and Geological party in January 1972 who found it to have unique layered deposits of the shells of the clam, Laternula elliptica around it.

A peak about 24 km south-east of Mt. Biscoe in Enderby Land. Discovered in January, 1930, by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after the Rt. Hon. Sir John Latham, Minister for External Affairs in the Australian Commonwealth Government, 1931-34.

A prominent peninsula on the north-west part of Heard Island joined by a narrow isthmus.

A very broad bay, choked with bay ice and ice shelf, west of the Matusevich Glacier in Oates Land. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Sketched and photographed by Phillip Law, leader of the ANARE Expedition on the MV Magga Dan on 20 February, 1959. Named after Knud Lauritzen, shipowner, of Copenhagen, Denmark, owner of the Magga Dan and other vessels used by ANARE since 1954.

The northernmost point of Shipton Ridge in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named after Lieut. Lavallee, a US Navy helicopter pilot, who assisted in establishing the expedition in the Allan Hills.

A rock bluff on the south coast of Heard Island just west of Fiftyone Glacier.

An ice dome on the Budd Coast of Wilkes Land, centred about 125 km ESE of Casey Station. The dome is 1395 m high (per 1:1M map sheet SQ49-50). The presence and nature of the dome have been revealed as the result of intensive glaciological and geophysical survey by ANARE parties since 1962.

The automatic weather station was established in April 1986. It is located at an elevation of 1395m (per 1:1M map sheet SQ49-50).

A glacier, largely in the Ross Dependency in the southern portion of the Queen Elizabeth Range, draining from the Polar Plateau to the Bowden Névé.

A group of islands lying off the eastern side of Law Promontory. So named because of their proximity to Law Promontory. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). First visited by ANARE party led by Peter W. Crohn in 1956.

A shingle beach at the site of the first landing on Macey Peninsula, Rauer Group by Dr PG Law from the Kista Dan on 11 January 1957. The group was searching for a site for a new station.

A high ice plateau extending eastwards from the Mawson Escarpment. Delineated from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after Phillip G. Law, (then) Director of the Australian Antarctic Division of the (then) Department of External Affairs.

A promontory about 28 km across, situated just west and north-west of Stefansson Bay. This feature appears to have been first mapped with an accuracy by William Scoresby in February 1936. It was photographed from the air by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and subsequently plotted on the Hansen Atlas Sheet 5 as Breidhovde. First visited by an ANARE party led by Peter W. Crohn in May, 1956. Named after Phillip Law who flew over and photographed this feature in February 1954.