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A group of rock hills on the eastern side of the Lambert Glacier, 9 km north of the Mawson Escarpment. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973.

A line of sharply pointed peaks in the southern part of Mount Rivett, Mac.Robertson Land. One of the peaks was used as an astronomical station by D. Carstens, surveyor at Mawson in 1962. Another peak was used as a tellurometer station by John Manning, surveyor at Mawson in 1967. Named after E.J. Lawson, diesel mechanic at Mawson in 1967, who assisted Manning with the survey work. Location for the feature is at southern end of the aigulles - same as survey station NMS40.

A small, tooth-like nunatak, about 5 km south-east of Branson Nunatak in the Masson Range, Mac.Robertson Land. Fixed by intersection from trigonometrical stations by John Manning, surveyor at Mawson in February, 1968.

A group of nunataks about 7.4 km south-west of Keim Peak in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after G.J. Lawson, USARP biologist at McMurdo station in the summer of 1967-68.

A chain of mountains extending southwards for about 57 km from Magga Peak, Oates Land, on the western side of the Matusevich Glacier. Photographed from the air by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The Third Soviet Maritime Antarctic Expedition (1957-58) and ANARE (1959). Named after M.P. Lazarev, commander of the sloop Mirny of the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-21).

A rock ridge about 8 km ESE of Mount Béchervaise in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. The feature was intersected in November 1966 by an ANARE survey party led by J. Quinert and climbed by the party on 7 December, 1966. A rock cairn was erected on the highest point. Leah was a code name used at Mawson to identify the survey party.

A saline lake in the southern part of the Vestfold Hills. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.Named Ozero Lebed'' (Swan Lake) by the Soviet Expedition.

A range situated about 38 km SSE of Edward VIII Gulf in Kemp Land which includes the peaks shown on the Norwegian Whalers Chart, Sheet 3 as Polhesten and Poloksen. Named after Squadron Leader Douglas W. Leckie, RAAF, who commanded the Antarctic Flight at Mawson in 1956, and who piloted the Auster Aircraft from which Phillip Law sighted and plotted the range in 1954.

A bay just west of McDonald Bay on the coast of Queen Mary Land. Plotted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956) and called Bukhta Lednikovaya (Icy Bay).

An island just north of Entrance Island, off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Visited by ANARE parties from nearby Mawson on many occasions.

A nunatak about 4 km south of Mount Gardner in the Porthos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after E. Lee, weather observer at Davis in 1963 and weather observer-in-charge at Mawson in 1969.

The sea passage between the continental ice coast, west of Mirny and a group of small islands about 1 km offshore. Plotted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956) and called Prokhod Lena after the expedition ship Lena.

A Russian scientific station located at an elevation of 91 m on the coast of Oates Land. The station was established in 1970 and permanently manned in 1971.

One of the group of three peaks, south-east of Husky Massif and about 30 km east of Mount Hicks in the Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1960. Named after W.H. Lensink, weather observer at Wilkes in 1960.

A ridge approximately 1.7km long north of Lavett Bluff and west of 51 Glacier, Heard Island.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

An elevation in the surface of the West Ice Shelf rising to 184 m above sea level. Discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). This feature was called Ostrov Leskova (Lednikovyy Kupol) after A. Leskov, Lieutenant of the sloop Vostok, one of the ships of the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-1821).

A rock outcrop with a conical peak at its southern end, about 8 km south of Mount Cook in the Leckie Range, Kemp Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after Leslie Miller, radio officer at Mawson in 1964, a member of one of the survey parties which carried out a tellurometer traverse passing through the Leckie Range in 1965.

A small island immediately NE of Greater Mackellar Island in the Mackellar Islands, lying 3.7km N of Cape Denison in the centre of Commonwealth Bay.

A small rocky island on the eastern side of Davis Bay, about 30 m from the continental ice cliffs of Wilkes Coast. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The first landing was made on the island by an ANARE party on 7 January 1956. Named by USACAN after T. Lewis, gunner on the sloop of war Peacock, one of the ships of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Wilkes.