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A small, blue, freshwater duck shaped lake, approximately 150m across, 1km east of Watts Hut in the Vestfold Hills. The lake is a useful navigation point when walking between Crooked Lake and Watts Hut.

A prominent bluff on the northern end of the Reinbolt Hills. A survey station was established on the feature during the ANARE tellurometer traverse from Larsemann Hills to Reinbolt Hills in 1968. Named after M.N. Rubeli, surveyor at Mawson in 1968, who was in charge of the traverse.

A peak about 20 km SSW of Mount Biscoe in Enderby Land. Discovered on 13 and 14 January, 1930, by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Dr. R.N. Rudmose Brown, Antarctic geographer and a member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-04).

An almost circular permanently frozen lake in the North Masson Range. The lake is about 5.0 ha in area. The ice is 4 m thick over 80 m of water. The lake is adjacent to Rumdoodle Hut.

A prominent peak in the north-western part of the North Masson Range, about south-west of Painted Peak. This peak overlooks the Rumdoodle Air Strip. Rumdoodle was the name of a fictional mountain in the novel Ascent of Rumdoodle by W.E. Bowman. Since 1960 the name has been used locally by Mawson personnel for the airstrip.

An island near the head of Stefansson Bay in Kemp Land.

A cluster of mainly ice-covered peaks at the southern side of Byrd Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

A small group of irregular somewhat jagged protruding rocks sticking up through the plateau ice about 27 km south-east of Mawson and 14 km south-east of Mt. Henderson in Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered by an ANARE party led by Robert Dovers on 4 December, 1954, and named after John Russell, engineer at Mawson in 1954.

A dark, rust-coloured ridge in the south-west part of Broknes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills.

The entrance to the Rybij Khvost Gulf lies 6.5 kms south-west from the western edge of Fuller Island and is surrounded by the main bulk of the Bunger Hills. Krylatyy Peninsula forms the northern shore on the western side. It occupies an area approximately 5.5 kms by 2.5 kms. The gulf has a small group of islands at its south-western end which is about 5.0 kms east of Edgeworth David. A steep pointed cape marks the north-eastern entrance to the gulf while the Krylatyy Peninsula forms the north-western perimeter. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

An inlet in the north-eastern 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.

An isolated rock off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land, about 49 km NNE of Byrd Head. Discovered on about 18 February, 1931, by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson who named it after the Australian High Commissioner in London at the time.

That portion of the coast of Wilkes Land between Cape Waldron (in about 115 degrees 05' E) and Cape Southard (in about 122 degrees 04' E). John Balleny is reported to have sighted land in about longitude 117 degrees E on 3 March, 1839. BANZARE, under Sir Douglas Mawson, reported an appearance of land about one degree further south than that reported by Balleny. Mawson retained the name Sabrina, after one of Balleny's ships which was lost in a storm in late March, 1839.

A colony of emperor penguins located on the fast ice on the western side of the Dalton Iceberg Tongue, Sabrina Coast, Wilkes Land. It is about 60 km north of the coast, and can be split into several sub-colonies that are up to 5 km apart. It was discovered by BAS in a satellite image taken in 2014. Note: emperor penguin colonies may not remain in one fixed location.

A small island just south of Holl Island in the Windmill Islands. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The term Rock is considered inappropriate. Originally named Sack Rock after N.F. Sack, a member of Operation Highjump and USN Operation Windmill (1947-48)  

A rocky point on the north coast of Heard Island to the west of Mechanics Bay. The name appears on Challenger's chart.

A descriptive name used by Lieutenant William Langdon in 1822. At some times the point was called Victoria Point.

A small island about 6 km east of Cape Daly on the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). First visited in 1954 by an ANARE party led by Robert G. Dovers and so named because it was the nearest safe camp site to Scullin Monolith.

A rock in the sea about 13 kms off the north coast of Heard Island. The name appears on Challenger's chart.

A peninsula, between Amundsen Bay and Casey Bay in Enderby Land, on which Dingle Dome is situated. This region was photographed by ANARE in 1956 and 1957 and by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in the Lena in 1957. Named by the Soviet Expedition after N.A. Sakellari, Soviet scientist and navigator.