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A rocky peninsula at the western end of the Larsemann Hills on the Ingrid Christensen Coast. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and called Stornes (Big Point). The feature was visited by ANARE survey parties in 1968 and 1969.

Translated from Norwegian the name means "The large island". stor = large. Original spelling was Storöy with the modern spelling being Storøy. 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.

The peninsula lies 6.0 km east of Fuller Island and is separated from it by Magnitologov Strait. It adjoins the northern part of Aviatorov Peninsula. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

A group of rocks located north of Saddle Point

A glacier about midway between Cape Daly and Cape Fletcher on the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered on 13 February 1931, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after F. Strahan, Assistant Secretary, Prime Minister's Department, 1921-1935.

A rolling rocky hill on Heard Island about 200 m high with a steep drop to the north east. This trig station, Forward 2, was established by RG Dovers in 1948. It was located and photographed by Rod Streeter, Surveyor with the National Mapping Expedition to Heard Island in 1980.

A low, rounded outcrop of banded gneiss on the eastern side of the Robert Glacier, about 11 km north-east of Rayner Peak in Kemp Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. First visited by an ANARE party led by I.R. McLeod on 8 February, 1965. The surface of the nunatak displays a remarkable development of striations, grooves and polishing caused by ice movement across the nunatak.

A small island off the northern tip of Manning Island in the Larsemann Hills.

A rock peak on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land. It was mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). It was fixed by triangulation from an astrofixed baseline by an ANARE party from Davis led by William Young in 1963. Note by HAB 4/4/2013 - It was originally named Svartmulen. Hansen chart 10 was used to identify the location of the feature as it is not shown on any other map and the ASTRO fix is not in the survey control database.

A rock peak over 310 m high, about 4 km south-west of Byrd Head.

A steep-sided gully at the north-east end of a small valley connecting the eastern side of Lake Burgess with Thala Fjord in the Larsemann Hills.

A light-coloured rock bluff, rising out of the sea about 2 km north of Cape Gotley, in Edward VIII Gulf, Kemp Land.

A moving snow valley flowing northwards at the northern end of the Mawson Escarpment. Photographed by ANARE in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Seen frequently by the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey parties in 1971 and 1972.Named after Don F. Styles, (then) Deputy Director of the Antarctic Division, Melbourne.

A strait, 11-19 km wide and about 28 km long, separating White Island from Sakellari Peninsula, Enderby Land. The depth of water in the strait ranges from 173 m near the western entrance to 686 m near the centre. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in November 1956. Visited in February 1960 and February 1961 by the ANARE expedition on the MV Thala Dan led by Don F. Styles, (then) Assistant Director, Antarctic Division, Melbourne, after whom it was named.

"Named in memory of a petrographer, Valerij Aleksandrovich Sudakov (1927-1959) who lost his life in the Antarctic."

A nunatak, about 6 km long, about 13 km north-west of Arrowhead Nunatak. Plotted by the US Geological Survey from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named by USACAN after J.G. Sullivan, geologist at McMurdo Station in the winter of 1961 and in 1961-62.

Three nunataks about 4 km north-east of Mount Bewsher in the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after R.N.Sullivan, radio operator at Wilkes in 1968, who died on a field trip on 22 July 1968.

A partly snow-covered rock mass in the central part of the Mawson Escarpment, between Petkovic Glacier and Helmore Glacier. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Named after Phillip H.S. Sulzberger, (then) Acting Assistant Director (Scientific) of the Antarctic Division, Melbourne.

The highest peak of the Stinear Nunataks (2,205m) situated about 285 km SSE of Mawson in Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered by an ANARE southern party in 1954, led by Robert G. Dovers, who named it after Dr. R.O. Summers, medical officer at Mawson in 1954.

This name was proposed by the 1948 ANARE.