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A low, rocky, bean-shaped island, close to the coast about 4 km south-west of Mawson. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Included in a ground survey by J.C. Armstrong in 1959.

A partially snow-covered ridge, which appears as a peak when viewed from the north, about 6 km south of Moyes Peak, in Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered on 18 February, 1931, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson. Named after Sir George Pearce, Vice-President of the Executive Council, Chairman of the Australian Antarctic Committee, 1929.

The next beach south of Sandy Beach, McDonald Island. It is about 200 metres in length and is made up of stones. There is no beach access to the north or south from this beach.

A steep tributary glacier just west of DeVries Glacier, flowing southwards from the slopes of Mount McClintock to Byrd Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

A plateau on the eastern side of Sandford Cliffs. Plotted by the US Geological Survey from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named after Rear Admiral E. Peletier, CEC, USN, Bureau of Yards and Docks, who assisted Rear Admiral Dufek in preparations for USN Operation Deepfreeze II.

A small lake in the Vestfold Hills, approximately 200 m in diameter on an ice covered moraine. There are prominent mud bands above the ice cliffs on the western side.

The bay runs to the west of the Edisto Channel and is bounded to the south by Currituck Island, to the west by the Shacleton Ice Shelf and to the north by Dieglman Island. It was charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956

A small lake which is only one of three in the Vestfold Hills to have the animal Paralabidocera antarctica in it. The water is fresh on top, salty underneath with a great deal of biological activity. The maximum depth of the lake is 21 m.

A low hill immediately to the south of Cape Denison on the eastern side of the entrance to Boat Harbour and about 460 m north from Mawson's main hut.

A granite point, about 97 m high, marking the western extremity of Murphy Bay, George V Land. Discovered and named by the eastern coastal party of AAE (1911-14) led by C.T. Madigan.

A large bay extending from Robinson Ridge to Browning Peninsula, Windmill Islands. The area was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946/47), ANARE (1956) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named after R.L. Penney, biologist at Wilkes in 1959 and 1960.  

The only practical landing place towards the eastern end of the northern side of Ardery Island, Windmill Islands. Discovered in 1959 by R.L. Penney, biologist at Wilkes, after whom it was named.  

A ravine on Ardery Island, Windmill Islands, about 9 m wide and 73 m long. It is on the northern side of the island just west of the centre line. Discovered in February, 1960, by a biological field party from Wilkes. Named after R.L. Penney, biologist at Wilkes in 1959 and 1960.  

A point on the southern side of Nicholson Peninsula, marking the northern entrance to Matterson Inlet. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

A conspicuous dolerite boulder perched on a ridge 0.6 km west of Collerson Lake on Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills.

The northern of two small lakes or tarns about 0.9 km west of Collerson Lake on Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. The lake marks an important turning point on the overland route between Davis and Ellis Rapids.

A group of five nunataks extending NS in a straight line on the eastern edge of the Scott Mountains, Enderby Land. Photographed by ANARE aircraft in October, 1956. Surveyed by an airborne field party in November, 1958. Named after V. Perov. captain of a Russian aircraft which flew over this area and rescued the 1958 Belgian field party after an aircraft accident.

A distinct, triangular peak on Tentacle Ridge, north-west of Medusa in the Cook Mountains, Eastern AAT. The peak is in bedded Beacon sandstone.