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A mountain range 48.3 km long, extending north along the eastern side of Starshot Glacier from the Thompson Mountain area to the glacier's terminus at the Ross Ice Shelf. Named by the NZGSAE (1960-61) for the early pioneering surveyors of New Zealand and present day equivalents in Great Britain who contributed to work carried out in this area by Capt. P.J. Hunt, Royal Engineers.

An island about 3 km south-east of Gardner Island, Vestfold Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

A glacier east of Hornblends Bluffs in Oates Land. It is partly in the Ross Dependency. Discovered and photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958. Photographed by ANARE (1959) and the US Navy. Named by the Soviet Expedition after V.C. Suvorov, a mechanic who died in the Arctic.

A peak about 210 m high on the south-west side of Law Promontory. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Svartjell (Black Mountain).

A dark rock nunatak with a small outlier to the south-west, about 6.5 km SSE of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen on the Ingrid Christensen Coast.Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and called Svarthausen (The Black Pate) by Norwegian cartographers.

A peak about 450 m above sea level, on the western side of the upper reaches of the Rippon Glacier in Kemp Land.

A glacier partly in the Ross Dependency, about 13 km south-east of the Robilliard Glacier in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after K.G. Svendsen, USARP geomagnetician at McMurdo station in the summer of 1967-68.

A channel in the sea floor on the southeastern floor of Prydz Bay. It consists of two deeps each deeper than 750m. The southwestern one is 22km long and 5km wide and the northeastern is 70 km long with an average width of 17km.

A small group of islands and rocks in the southern part of Prydz Bay about 22 km south-west of the Rauer Group. The islands do not include Sted Island.

A rock ridge about 2 km north-west of Mount Starlight in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. The ridge extends in an east-west direction, with the main peak at the western end. Recorded on terrestrial photographs taken by R.H. Lacey, survey at Mawson in 1955, and on aerial photography taken by ANARE in 1959 and 1965.

A group of islands in the northern part of the Windmill Islands, north of Wilkes station. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956 & 1962) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition 1956. It was included in a survey of the area north of Wilkes by C.R. Eklund, scientific leader at Wilkes in 1958. The group was called Swain Islands by USACAN.  

Two prominent nunataks, about 1,563 m high, midway between the northern part of the Worcester Range (Ross Dependency) and Tate Peak. Plotted from US Navy air photographs. Named by USACAN after Lieut. P.K. Swartz, USN, officer-in-charge at the South Pole Station in 1961.

A rock in the Mackellar Islands lying to the north and north-west of Cape Denison, on the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named the group of islands after C.D. Mackellar of London, a patron of the expedition.

A range, 22 km long, on the western side of the Starshot Glacier. Named by the southern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1959-60) after Dr. Charles W.M. Swithinbank, (then) glaciologist of the University of Michigan, U.S.A., later a member of the research staff ot the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.

An island in the Mackellar Islands lying to the north and north-west of Cape Denison, on the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named the group of islands after C.D. Mackellar of London, a patron of the expedition.

A cove on Heard Island on the northern part of the Laurens Peninsula, east of Red Island.

A glacier flowing into the head of the head of the Law Glacier from Jacobs Nunatak. Plotted by the US Geological Survey from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named by USACAN after D.W. Sylwester, auroral scientist at the South Pole Station during the winter of 1961 and at Delta Sub-one in 1961-62.

A rock ridge extending ENE to the moraines at the edge of the plateau, at the eastern end of Long Peninsula, Vestfold Hills.

A waterfall over the ice in the Vestfold Hills, where the Talg River runs over a 6 m ice cliff. Talg is Arabic for "ice".