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A peak about 7.4 km south of Parkinson Peak in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after Lieut. E.W. Serba, USN, navigator in US Navy aircraft during US Operations Deepfreeze 67 and 68.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

An extensive ice shelf off the coast of Queen Mary Land extending up to 170 km northwards and stretching along the coast from Junction Corner (94 degrees 45' E) to at least the Denman Glacier (99 degrees E). Recent Soviet charts show the shelf extending as far east as 105 degrees E., but there are some doubts as to whether this is one continuous ice shelf or two shelves separated by the Denman and Scott Glaciers. The eastern part of the ice shelf was sighted by the US Exploring Expedition under Wilkes in February, 1840. The western portion was explored by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14).

A colony of emperor penguins located on the north-western side of the Shackleton Ice Shelf. Depending on fast ice conditions, the colony shifts its position, at times from the fast ice onto the top of the small grounded iceberg C-31B. It was first detected here by Peter Fretwell (BAS) in a satellite image taken in October 2009. Note: emperor penguin colonies may not remain in one fixed location.

An island about 10km off the north coast of Heard Island.

A bay about 9 km wide, formed by a recession of limited extent in the ice cliffs, just west of Point Williams, on the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered on 12 February, 1931, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who so named it because it formed only a shallow indentation in the coastline.

Small group of islands approximately 1.5 km E of Mitten Island in the Bol'shie Skalistye Islands, located in southern Prydz Bay.

An island about 3 km long and 100 m above sea level, in the south-west of the Øygarden Group. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Håkollen (The Shark Knoll).

An isolated nunatak with two peaks connected by a ridge, about 7 km SSW of Van Hulssen Nunatak, Mac.Robertson Land. The nunatak was plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and called Henuten (The Shark Peak).

A small steep-sided, tooth-like rock south, of McLea Nunatak (in Ross Dependency). Discovered and named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1962-63).

An island about 7 km long and 150 m above sea level. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Sxrxya (The South Land) by Norwegian cartographers.

A group of islands, in the south-west part of Casey Bay near the Hannan Ice Shelf. Photographed from an ANARE aircraft during 1956. First visited by an ANARE party led by Bruce H. Stinear in October, 1957. Named after J.E. Shaw, physicist at Mawson in 1957.

A fairly flat-topped rock, about 41 km south of Mt. Johnston in the Prince Charles Mountains. Discovered in November, 1956, from an ANARE aircraft. Named after B. Shaw, radio supervisor at Mawson in 1957.

The island lies 2.5 kms south-east of Filla Island in the Rauer Group. It is irregularly shaped and is deeply indented by two bays. The highest point is about 43 m. Charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

An island about 7 km off the coast of Kemp Land, about 19 km WSW of Hobbs Island. Discovered on 18 February, 1931, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson. BANZARE erroneously charted this feature as lying behind the coastline. Its insularity was determined by the William Scoresby Expedition in 1936. The island and its neighbours were more accurately charted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

A group of about six islands, about 2 km from the continental ice cliffs of Enderby Land. The largest of the islands is 0.5 km across. These islands were possibly the site of the landing from an aircraft by Riiser-Larsen on 22 December, 1929. An ANARE party landed on them on 14 February, 1958, and obtained an astrofix. Named after the wife of Robert H.J. Thompson, Administrative Officer of the Antarctic Division, Melbourne, and second-in-command of the expedition.

A submarine bank on the Kerguelen Plateau about 126 nautical miles north-east of Heard Island. The bank is about 200 metres deep. The position has been fixed by echo sounding and GPS and it has been mapped by various survey vessels including the Eltanin, Cape Pillar, Professor Mesyatsev and RSV Aurora Australis. Of all the five outlying submarine banks in the Heard Island region this is the only one which has sediment consisting of fine white shell grit. The others have sediment of fine black volcanic sand.

A group of rocks lying 6.4 km north-west of Ricker Hills, in the Prince Albert Mtns., Victoria Land. Mapped by USGS.

A small glacier in the Mawson Escarpment, between Philpott Bluff and Casey Point. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Named after J. Sheraton, geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1973.

A lake, shaped like a shield in plan, just south of Ekho Lake on Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. The lake was one of several lakes investigated by ANARE biologists wintering at Davis in 1974.