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A mountain ridge just south of Thomson Massif in the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956. Named after Richard A Saxton, Officer-in-Charge at Wilkes in 1963.

A small lake in a depression just west of Collerson Lake on Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. The lake was investigated by biologists at Davis in 1974.

One of a group of peaks about 9 km south-east of Husky Massif in the Prince Charles Mountains, Mac.Robertson Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs.Named after A.M. Scanlan, cook at Davis in 1961.

Three black, rectangular, steep-sided rock outcrops about 57 km SSW of Cape Hudson in George V Land. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Third Soviet Maritime Antarctic Expedition in the Ob in 1958 and ANARE in 1959. Named after the Special Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) of the International Council of Scientific Unions.

A hill on Heard Island about 410 m high to the west of Skua Beach and between the Brown Glacier and Stephenson Glacier on the east coast. The name was proposed by the 1948 ANARE.

A peak on the western side of the Tomilin Glacier in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after Lieut. P.W. Schmehl, USNR, navigator on US Navy aircraft during US Operation Deepfreeze 68.

A small glacier on Heard Island between Mt Drygalski and the lower point of North West Cornice. The name was proposed by Drygalski in Zum Kontinent des eisigens Sudens in Berlin in 1904. Drygalski makes acknowledgement in successive paragraphs to Count Baudissin and to Dr J. Schmidt of the Royal Prussian Ministry concerned with the expedition. The association of the names Baudissin and Schmidt on the first occasion on which Drygalski was assigning names suggests that Dr J. Schmidt is the person so honoured.

A group of nunataks about 16.6 km south of Pope Mountain in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after J.L. Schmidt, aviation electrician's mate at McMurdo station during the winter of 1967.

A small mountain peak about 7 km south-west of Mount Woinarski in the Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956 and 1960. Named after Ulrich Schmitter, cook at Davis in 1964.

A rock outcrop in the Goodspeed Nunataks, southern Prince Charles Mountains, about 15 km east of Skinner Nunatak. First sighted by an ANARE seismic traverse party in 1957. Photographed by ANARE in 1958 and 1960. Named after E. Schneider, helicopter engineer with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1972.

A triangluar lagoon on Heard Island which is often dry. It is located between the north and south beaches at the base of The Spit.

A jagged ridge, 8.6 km long, that runs E from the S part of Reeves Plateau, Cook Mountains.

A peak in the Cobham Range, 7 km north-west of Lyttleton Peak. Plotted by the US Geological Survey from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named by USACAN after J.E. Schroeder, glaciologist at Little America in 1959-60.

The south-western point of Shirley Island, Windmill Islands. The island was delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after R.L. Schulz, a member of the 1958 Wilkes party.  

A broken line of peaks extending about 22 km in a SW-NE direction, west of the Wilma Glacier, Kemp Land. Seen in November 1954 by an ANARE sledging party led by Robert G. Dovers. Named after G. Schwartz, French observer with ANARE at Mawson in 1954 and a member of the field party.

The automatic weather station (Argos ID 1172)(formerly known as G046) on the Casey-Vostok traverse route was established in November 1984. It is located at an elevation of 3096 m.

A glacier located about 9 km west of Campbell Head in Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from oblique air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition and called Breoddane.

Charles H Scoble, diesel engineer of the first ANARE party was accidentally drowned in July 1948. The lake is overlooked by the cross erected to his memory.

A glacier about 13 km wide and over 38 km long, flowing NNW to the coast of Queen Mary Land just east of Cape Hoadley. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14).

A large number of isolated peaks south of Amundsen Bay. Discovered on 13 January, 1930, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson who named the feature Scott Range. The term range was considered inappropriate.