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The largest of a group of small islands lying about 3.5 km north-west of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Firlingane.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

A bay in the northern part of Long Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.

A group of nunataks about 26 km south-west of Ricker Hills. Discovered and named by the Southern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1962-63).

A nunatak about 1,249 m high, just south of the largest of the Archangel Nunataks in George V Land. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Third Soviet Maritime Expedition in 1958, ANARE in 1959 and the US Navy in 1960-62. The feature was named by the US Geological Survey in 1961-62 and used as intersected survey station.

A lake, roughly oval in shape, 1.3 km north-east of Club Lake on Broad Peninsula in the Vestfold Hills.

A lake near Molodezhnaya station on the coast of Enderby Land. Photographed by ANARE in 1957 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named Ozero Oval'noye (Oval Lake) by the Soviet Expedition.

A short tributary glacier of the Hatherton Glacier immediately east of Dark Tower in the Eastern AAT. The glacier is steep without crevasses.

A group of rocky, irregular islands which extend about 31 km in an EW direction, situated on the southern side of the entrance to Edward VIII Gulf, off the coast of Kemp Land. First visited by ANARE party led by Peter W. Crohn in May, 1956.

A drainage valley north east of Winston Lagoon, Heard Island. The valley is in stabilised morainal material. It is about two kilometres long, extending south-westerly to the ocean from the ice cap.

A series of moraines to the north of the Vahsel Glacier, Heard Island extending from West Bay to the North West Cornice.

A steep-sided gorge about 6 km long and about 150 m deep joining Radok Lake and Beaver Lake at the eastern end of the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Photographed by ANARE aircraft in 1956. The gorge was traversed by A. Medvecky, geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in January 1969.Named after the Snow Petrels (Pagodroma nivea) which nest in the weathered sandstone walls of the gorge.

A long narrow lake on the western foot of the North Masson Range. It is permanently frozen and 22.6 ha in area.

A prominent peak on the northern spur of the North Masson Range, Mac.Robertson Land. This feature is conspicuous by its red-brown colouring. It was used as a tellurometer station by D.R. Carstens, surveyor at Mawson in 1962.

A valley, about 4 km long and 900 m high, dominated for its entire length by a large dolerite sill, about five km north of Bastion Hill in the Brown Hills. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63). So named because of its resemblance to the Palisades bordering the Hudson River Valley near New York.

A prominent rock point on the southern side of Sandefjord Bay, about 15 km WNW of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Visited by I.R. McLeod, geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains Survey party, 1969.

A small hill on the Cotton Plateau overlooking the junction of the Marsh and Nimrod Glaciers. Discovered by the N.Z. Geological Expedition (1964-65). So named because of the excellent view-point provided by the feature.

Nunataks about 22 km east of Alderdice Peak in the Nye Mountains in Enderby Land. This feature was called Gory Papanina (Papanin Mountains) by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition.

A lone rock at the southern side of David Glacier, 5 km north-west of Shomo Rock, in the Prince Albert Mountains, Victoria Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1956-62.

The most north-westerly of the Parallactic Islands. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE.