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Translated from Norwegian the name means "The pointed island". Spiss = tip, point, head, apex. Original spelling was Spissöya with the modern spelling being Spissøya. 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 wide bay on the northern side of Spit Point on the eastern coast of Heard Island.

The most easterly point of Heard Island at the end of Elephant Spit.

An elongated lake in the Vestfold Hills which has a split in the middle. At times it is one lake and other times it is two lakes.

A bay on the coast of Enderby Land, just west of Tange Promontory. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Visited by the ANARE Expedition on the MV Thala Dan led by D.F. Styles in February 1961. Named after Senator W.H. Spooner, Australian Minister for National Development, 1951-64.

A steep conical hill 1.5 km nearly due north of Oasis Station in the Bunger Hills. The hill rises from the point where two spurs meet, one trending north-west, the other due east. There is a line of cliffs to the south trending east-west. Charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

A bay about 4 km wide, lying just west of Hoseason Glacier in Kemp Land. Mapped from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Skotvika because of its proximity to West Stack, named by personnel of the William Scoresby in 1936.

A steep rocky hill on the northern side of Lake Zvezda in the Vestfold Hills.

A group of small, rocky islands close to the coast, about 9-11 km north-east of Falla Bluff, Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered on 14 or 18 February, 1931, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson.

A ridge, partly ice-covered, extending to the south-west part of Davies Bay, Oates Land. First visited in March 1961 by an airborne field party from the ANARE Expedition on the MV Magga Dan in 1961 led by Phillip Law. Named after J.E. Stanwix, helicopter pilot with the expedition.

"Named after its distinctive shape, two points of an imaginary star with one point trending north north west and the other west. Visited by ANARE 1992-93 in a traverse from Mather Peninsula to Sapozhok Island and Cape Rybachiy. This promontory is important geologically as it preserves a shear zone that cuts the older gneisses."

A remarkable cirque, up to 8 km wide, between the base of Tentacle Ridge and Mount Hughes in Cook Mountains.

A glacier 11-13 km wide, flowing about 95 km from the Polar Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf, just south of Cape Parr. Discovered by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960-61) and named by the party to commemorate star observations taken in the vicinity.

A small, freshwater pool about 0.5 km east of Davis station. Discovered by the first ANARE party at Davis in 1957.

A small group of low, rocky hills just north of Rogers Glacier in Princess Elizabeth Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after L.R. Statler, an air-crew member on Operation Highjump.

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. Australia adopted the name Stedøy in 2011, which was changed to Sted Island in 2021.

A bay on the coast of Kemp Land between Law Promontory and Fold Island. Sir Douglas Mawson, BANZARE, applied the name to a sweep of the coast west of Cape Wilkins. Exploration by the William Scoresby Expedition (1936) and the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) defined this section of the coast more accurately.

Two rock islands in the Publications Ice Shelf on the Ingrid Christensen Coast, about 13 km south-east of the SxIslands. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and called Steinane (The Stones) by Norwegian cartographers.

A rock outcrop on the Ingrid Christensen Coast about 11 km south-west of Cowell Island.