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A glacier on the east coast just north of the Dovers Moraine. Named after Dr PJ Stephenson, geologist with the 1963 ANARE Heard Island Expedition.

A saltwater lagoon on Heard Island formed by the 1980 retreat of the Stephenson Glacier. It is possible to walk along the moraine dam from Skua Beach to Try Pot Beach.

A lake in the Larsemann Hills. The western half is very shallow whilst the eastern half drops to 4 m in depth.

A peak (c. 1300 m) located 5.3 km NE of Rand Peak in Nebraska Peaks, Britannia Range.

A small, lone, low-lying rock about 4 km east of the Strahan Glacier and 2 km north of the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered on 13 February, 1931, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Commander C.W. Stevens, RAN, Hydrographic Department, Royal Australian Navy.

A bluff about 27.8 km ESE of Pope Mountain in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after W.P. Stevenson, flight crewman at McMurdo station in the winter of 1968.

An enclosed cove on the northern side of Clark Peninsula about 4 km ENE of Wilkes station. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). The feature was included in a ground survey by C.R. Eklund in 1957. Named by USACAN after Dr A. Stevenson, economic adviser to the US House of Representatives Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and author of a report for the Committee on the IGY in the Arctic and Antarctic.  

A glacier flowing north-west into the eastern side of the Amery Ice Shelf, just north of Branstetter Rocks. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after Lieut. J.C. Stevenson, USN, a pilot on Operation Highjump.

An island about 122 m high, one of two islands, about 4 km NNE of Cape Simpson in Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered on 18 February, 1931, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson. Named after Capt. J.B. Stevenson, RN, a member of the Australian Aurora Committee, 1916-17.

A bay about 7 km wide just east of the Jelbart Glacier. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Utstikkarbukta (The Projecting Bay). Renamed after R.K. Stibbs, Officer-in-Charge ANARE Macquarie Island in 1951.

A group of rocky hills, including Kemp Peak (340 m), about 5 km south of Fold Island, Kemp Land. The hills extend for about 13 km in a NW-SE direction and are composed of light brown to dark grey banded gneisses. Geological investigations were carried out in this area by D.S. Trail, geologist at Mawson in 1961.

The largest island of the Way Archipelago, about 3 km north-east of Garnet Point off the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Frank L. Stillwell, a member of the expedition.

A lake about 3 km by 2 km in size about 3 kms north-east from Kemp Peak. The lake is about 2 m above the high tide limit and drains from its eastern end via a short stream to the sea. It is the largest lake in the Stillwell Hills.

An island about 400 m north of Bichervaise Island, in the Flat Islands about 2 km WNW of Mawson. The island was visited frequently by ANARE parties since 1954.

A group of dark brown nunataks, of different shapes, which occur within an area of 360 square km. They are situated about 280 km SSE of Mawson. Visited by the ANARE southern party, 1954, led by Robert Dovers who named the group after Bruce H. Stinear, geologist at Mawson in 1954.

A peninsula in the Larsemann Hills projecting out of the ice plateau into the sea with uniformly steep sides rising to a central spine.

A rocky point on Clark Peninsula, Budd Coast, on which Wilkes station is built. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956) and the Russian Antarctic Expedition (1956). Wilkes station was established by a US Antarctic Expedition in February 1957. Named by USACAN after G.H. Stonehocker, chief physicist in the ionosphere-cosmic ray programme at Wilkes in 1957.  

The name first appeared on Mawson's 1943 map of Macquarie Island.

The northermost point on Tilman Ridge in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named after Dr. Marie Stopes, authority on Carboniferous paleobotany, and hence associated with the geology of the area.

A submarine bank about 45 km off the Mawson Coast of Mac.Robertson Land. The bank was discovered on 9 January 1934 by the Norwegian whale factory ship Solglimt, which found the bottom shelved steeply from 5,100 to 310 m. It was thought that there was a large edge there to which was given the name Storeggen (The Great Ridge).