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A point on the western side of William Scoresby Bay, in Kemp Land. Discovered and named by the William Scoresby Expedition in February, 1936.

A point on a low, dark, rock outcrop on the coast of Enderby Land, west of Freeth Bay. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. First visited by an airborne survey party led by S.L. Kirkby in 1960.

A point on the Lars Christensen Coast, on the eastern side of Shallow Bay. Discovered on 12 February, 1931, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after A.J. Williams, wireless operator on the Discovery.

A piece of land projecting into the Shackleton Ice Shelf, 31km west of Cape Moyes. In March 1912, the first Western Base sledging journey with the dogs aimed to lay a depot to lessen the outgoing load of the eastern exploration planned for later that year.

A glacier flowing north-west, about 40 to 50 km south-west of the Larsemann Hills, Princess Elizabeth Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).

A glacier flowing north-east just east of Mt. Caroline Mikkelsen in Princess Elizabeth Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).Named after the Polar Times, a polar journal published by the American Polar Society of New York.

A glacier flowing WNW into the Publications Ice Shelf, about 17 km south-west of the Larsemann Hills on the Ingrid Christensen Coast. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Sighted by members of the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in February, 1969. Delineated and named in 1952 by Dr. J.H. Roscoe, photogrammetrist with Operation Highjump and USN Operation Windmill (1947-48). Named after Polarerboken, a polar journal published by the Norsk Polarklubb in Oslo, Norway.

A glacier flowing NNW just west of the Polar Record Glacier. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump.Named after Polarforschung, a polar journal published by the Archiv f|r Polarforschung at Kiel, Germany.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

A narrow south-north trending gorge from Polygon Valley to Crooked Lake in the Vestfold Hills. It is about 600 m long, 10-15 m wide and up to 25 m deep. This is the western of two gorges at this end of Crooked Lake.

The valley in the Vestfold Hills is between 100-200 m wide and is 1 km long trending SSW to NNE.

An ice-covered tableland about 16 km long, about 28 km north of Daniels Range. Plotted from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named after Dr. M.A. Pomerantz, Director of the Bartol Research Foundation and Chairman of the US Committee for the International Year of the Quiet Sun, who carried on cosmic ray studies in the McMurdo area in 1959-60 and 1960-61.

A peak about 28 km south-east of Pope Mountain in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after D.A. Poorman, aviation machinist's mate at McMurdo station during the winter of 1967.

A mountain near the head of the Tomilin Glacier in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after Lieut. T.J. Pope, USNR, navigator on US Navy aircraft during US Operation Deepfreeze 68.

A small island off the Cook Ice Shelf on the coast of George V Land. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1958). Named by the Soviet Expedition after G. Kh. Popp, German meteorologist who perished in the Antarctic.

An embayment about 170 km wide, between Cape Morse and Cape Goodenough, on the eastern end of Banzare Coast, in Wilkes Land. The name Porpoise Bay was applied by Wilkes to a large bay in 66 degrees S., 130 degrees E. after the brig Porpoise of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42). The present bay was delineated from air photography taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and named Porpoise Bay by USACAN.

A colony of emperor penguins located on the fast ice at the southwestern side of the Blodgett Iceberg Tongue, BANZARE Coast, Wilkes Land. It was discovered by BAS from a satellite image taken in October 2017. Note: emperor penguin colonies may not remain in one fixed location.

The highlands are located within the Australian Antarctic Territory near the eastern boundary with Terre Adilie. They run N-S to the west of the Astrolabe Subglacial Basin and were discovered and mapped by radio echo sounding by the Scott Polar Research Institute.

A large mountain with a broad ill-defined summit, due south of the Lashly Mountains, on the southern side of the main stream of the Skelton Glacier where it leaves the Polar Plateau. Discovered by the NZ party of TAE (1956-58) who named it because of its association with The Portal.

An ice shelf with an area of about 100 square km adjoining Amundsen Bay off the Sakellari Peninsula in Enderby Land.