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The second range south in the Prince Charles Mountains. Visited in December, 1956, by the ANARE southern party led by William G. Bewsher. Named after the character in Alexandre Dumas''s Three Musketeers.

A small island about 2 km south of Haswell Island. Plotted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1956, and named after J. Poryadin, navigator on the Vostok, flagship of the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-1821).

A wide-open embayment in the vicinity of Gaussberg, just east of the West Ice Shelf, in Wilhelm II Land. Discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition (1901-03) under Drygalski. Named after Count Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner, German Imperial Home Secretary, who secured a government grant for Drygalski's expedition.

This emperor penguin colony is one of the first two breeding sites ever encountered, but it was not recognized as such. Both adults and chicks were sighted several times during the First German South Polar Expedition in 1902. Expeditioners from the Soviet Union sighted a colony in Posadowsky Bay several times in the 1960s. The colony was spotted in a satellite image in 2014. Note: emperor penguin colonies may not remain in one fixed location.

A glacier just east of Gaussberg in Wilhelm II Land. Mapped and photographed from the summit of Gaussberg by the German Antarctic Expedition (1901-03) under Drygalski. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after Count Arthur Posadowsky-Wehner, German Imperial Home Secretary, who secured a government grant for Drygalski's expedition.

A roughly oval-shaped basin in the Vestfold Hills with a lake in the bottom and cliffs all round. The lake measures about 500 m wide and 1 km long.

Three small, isolated nunataks approximately 160 m high located about 1 km apart and aligned in a general north-east south-west direction projecting through blue ice just east of the Northcliffe Glacier, Queen Mary Land.

The highest point on the elongated rock ridge in the north-east part of the Anniversary Nunataks, Mac.Robertson Land. The summit has the distinctive appearance of a rock cairn. The peak was used as an unoccupied trigonometrical station by Max J. Corry, surveyor at Mawson in 1965. Named after M.A. Poulton, weather observer at Mawson in 1965.

A glacier almost on the boundary of Wilkes Land and Terre Adélie, delineated by French cartographers from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and called Glacier du Pourquoi Pas after the Polar ship used by Charcot of the French Antarctic Expedition (1908-10).

A cove on the northern side of Stonehocker Point on Clark Peninsula, Budd Coast. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named by USACAN after chief aerographer J.T. Powell, USN, who was a member of the Wilkes station party in 1957.  

A point on the northern side of Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, which forms the southern entrance to Long Fjord.

Icefalls on the southern side of Midnight Plateau in the Darwin Mountains. They occupy two large cirques and fall about 900 m. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63). Named after W.M. Prebble, geologist with the expedition.

The northern point of Gillock Island in the Amery Ice Shelf. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after J.C. Preston, air crewman with Operation Highjump.

An isolated nunatak about 7 km south of the South Masson Range, Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Named for H. Price, senior diesel mechanic at Mawson in 1959

The eastern of two promontories to the south-west of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Storneskloa (Big Cape Claw).

The névé at the head of the Priestley Glacier in Victoria Land. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place Names Committee in about 1966 in association with the Priestley Glacier. Priestley Glacier was named after Raymond E. Priestley, geologist with the Northern Party of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13. The feature lies partly within the Ross Dependency.

A prominent peak in the Scott Mountains, Enderby Land. Discovered on 14 January, 1930, by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Sir Raymond Priestley, a member of Scott's last expedition (1910-13).

A major group of mountains in Mac.Robertson Land, extending about 380 km southwards in an arc from their northern extremity, which is about 320 km SSE of Mawson. The mountains are situated between 70°10' S and 74°30' S and 60°40' E and 60°00' E. The mountains were first seen from a distance by airmen of USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The exact position of their northern components was first determined by Robert Dovers, Officer-in-Charge at Mawson, 1954, who saw them from the Stinear Nunataks in December, 1954. The northern range (Athos Range) was first visited by an ANARE party led by J. Béchervaise in December, 1955. A party led by William Bewsher in the summer of 1956-57 explored and mapped the three northern ranges. In 1957 a party led by K. Mather reached the Goodspeed Nunataks in the southern part of the mountains. Parties in 1958 and 1959 made landings from the air. In 1960 and 1961, parties, led by R. Ruker and D. Trail respectively, made geological surveys of the southern components. ANARE began a detailed topographical and geological survey of the mountains in 1969 which has continued each summer.

This glacier is totally within the Australian Antarctic Territory.