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A glacier on the Knox Coast of Wilkes Land about 19 km west of Merritt Island. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump and named after R.H. Snedeker, who served with USN Operation Windmill (1947-48) on this coast.

A bay with a very narrow entrance in the northern part of the Vestfold Hills. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.

A snow saddle, approximately 427 m high, between the Aurora Glacier and the Astro Glacier. Discovered and named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-62), who found that the deep soft snow made snowshoes the best method of travel.

A small group of coastal rocks projecting above the continental ice on the Knox Coast of Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after M.G. Snyder, a member of USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).

The pronounced ridge extending west-nor-west from Mt Ainsworth then west towards the coastal scarp where it forms the precipitous promontory between Caroline Bay and Caroline Cove. It defines the northern edge of The Amphitheatre and is crossed by a steep and unpopular section of the track leading to Caroline Cove from the northeast. The name reflects the unwelcome steepness of this track section and has been in use since the earliest days of ANARE.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

An island in the southern part of the entrance to Long Fjord, Vestfold Hills. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1954, 1957 and 1958) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956).

A steep-sided, island with three outlying rocks, between Hobs Island and Scoble Glacier on the coast of Mac.Robertson Land.

A small nunatak, elongated in a NW-SE direction about 26 km south-east of Svart Mountain in Kemp Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. First visited by an ANARE party led by I.R. McLeod on 25 February, 1965.

The largest and easternmost of two islands about 1.25 km north-east of Donovan Promontory in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37.

A crescent shaped, permanently frozen lake in a large bay in the Framnes Mountains at the south west corner of the North Masson Range. Descriptive as sounds of ice cracking which sounded like sonic booms were heard whilst standing on the lake.

A valley between the lateral moraine ridge south-east of Brown Lagoon and low lying bluffs at the north-west end of Skua Beach on Heard Island.

An imposing bluff headland that projects into Nella Fjord about 1.3 km north-west of Law Base in the Larsemann Hills. It is about 75 m high.

Translated from Norwegian the name means "The southernmost islets". sør = south Original spelling was Sör-holmane with the modern spelling being Sørholmane. Feature first mapped by the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936-37 with the name shown on Hansen Chart - Atlas of Parts of the Antarctic Coastal Lands / Ingrid Christensen Coast / Sheet 10 published in 1946. Scar map catalogue map number 12811. Name adopted by Australia in 2011.

A glacier about 15 km wide, flowing WNW and terminating in a prominent glacier tongue south of Crooked Fjord and the Vestfold Hills. Discovered and charted in February, 1935, by a Norwegian expedition under Captain Klarius Mikkelsen.

This knoll (82.1 m) is the most conspicuous of several in this area of the Vestfold Hills. It is conspicuously silhouetted against the Sørsdal Glacier when viewed from the vicinities of Tarbuck Crag, Boulder Hill and NM/S 263 on Mule Peninsula. A survey station NM/S 262 (a brass pin in the rock) was established in January 1979.

A nunatak about 1900 m above sea level, about 11.1 km south-west of Mount Breckenridge in Enderby Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Sxrtoppen (The South Peak) by Norwegian cartographers.

A group of small islands in the Publications Ice Shelf on the Ingrid Christensen Coast.The islands were discovered in February, 1935, by Captain K. Mikkelsen, who named them after the islands in the entrance to Oslo Fjord in Norway.

A ravine, 5 m wide and 90 m long, west of Penney Ravine, Ardery Island, Windmill Islands. Discovered in February, 1960, by a biological field party from Wilkes. Named after Dr. Z. Soucek, medical officer at Wilkes in 1960 and 1962.