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Translated from Norwegian the name means "The kidney". Original spelling was Nyra with the modern spelling being the same. Feature first mapped by the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936-37 with the name shown on Hansen Chart - Atlas of Parts of the Antarctic Coastal Lands / Ingrid Christensen Coast / Sheet 10 published in 1946. Scar map catalogue map number 12811. Name adopted by Australia in 2011.

Translated from Norwegian the name means "The kidney islets". Original spelling was Nyre-holmane with the modern spelling being Nyreholmane. Feature first mapped by the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936-37 with the name shown on Hansen Chart - Atlas of Parts of the Antarctic Coastal Lands / Ingrid Christensen Coast / Sheet 10 published in 1946. Scar map catalogue map number 12811. Name adopted by Australia in 2011.

The sector of Antarctica between 155 degrees E and 164 degrees E (partly in the Ross Dependency). Discovered in February, 1911, by Lieut. H.L.L. Pennell, RN, in the Terra Nova, expedition ship of the British National Antarctic Expedition (1910-13). Named after Capt. L.E.G. Oates of the 6th Iniskilling Dragoons, who with Captain Scott and three companions, lost his life on the return journey from the South Pole in 1912. The coastal region of Oates Land has been photographed or explored by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1958), ANARE (1959, 1961 and 1962), US Navy (1960-62), US Geological Survey (19622 Expedition (163-64). (See Handbook and Index that accompanies the 1939 Map of Antarctica by Bayliss and Cumpston for the extent of Oates Land)

A group of three rocks at the entrance to Winston Lagoon, Heard Island. A name applied by Ealey and Chittleborough in 1949 during the ANARE visit to the area.

The sea passage between Mirny and small islands and shallow water about 0.5 km to the north. Discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named after the Soviet expedition ship Ob.

A nunatak about 13 km south-east of Perov Nunataks in Enderby Land. The geology of the outcrop was investigated by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, which called it Gora Oblachnaya (Mount Cloudy).

A highly saline rectangular lake in a shallow depression about 1 km south-east of Leb'ed Lake in the Vestfold Hills. The lake was one of several lakes investigated by ANARE biologists wintering at Davis in 1974.

A large bay between Bailey Peninsula and Mitchell Peninsula, Windmill Islands. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after Lieutenant C.E. O'Brien, USN who participated in USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).  

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

A group of hills between Cape Jones and Cape Hoadley in Queen Mary Land. These hills were plotted by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14) as a great rock face. The hills were plotted more accurately by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956), who named them after V.A. Obruchev, a distinguished Soviet geologist.

A small, irregular island on the eastern side of Amundsen Bay, in Enderby Land. Visited by ANARE Amundsen Bay party led by Peter W. Crohn in 1956 and so named because the island was occupied as a magnetic and astronomical observation station.

An island less than 1 km east of Holl Island in the Windmill Islands, off the Budd Coast. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after photographer's mate J.J. O'Connor, USN who took part in Operation Highjump and USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).  

An island off the Windmill Islands, west of Robinson Ridge, on the Budd Coast. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after Lieutenant J.A. Odbert, USN assistant aerological officer on USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).

A glacier draining north-east between Allan Nunatak and Coombs Hills, from the south-west side of Mt. Brooke and the wide ice fields to the west, into the stream of the Mawson Glacier (Ross Dependency). Named by NZAPC after Professor N.E. Odell, formerly of Otago University.

A peak about 18 km south of Mount Codrington in Enderby Land.

An eroded extinct volcanic crater on Cape Bidlingmaier, Heard Island, 120m high on the northern ridge. The eastern part of the crater has collapsed directly to the sea below. Named after the Tasmanian whaling ship Offley (Captain Robinson), which was sealing off the Island in 1859.

Two small rocks between Davis station and Anchorage Island; about 1 km from Davis. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1957 and 1958.

A blunt headland in Spit Bay in the vicinity of Dovers Moraine, Heard Island.

An isolated ice-covered hill, about 19 km south-west of Mount Starlight in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Recorded on aerial photography by ANARE in 1965. Named after J. O'Keefe, cook at Mawson in 1964.

A seal wallow in the Vestfold Hills, measuring about 50 m by 20 m and with prominent walls of seal fur, hair and faeces.