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A long ridge extending south-east from the lower slopes of Mount Longhurst into the Darwin Glacier. Discovered and named by the Darwin Glacier Party of the TAE (1956-58).

A high peak discovered by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1962-63) and so named because it marked the western limit of their journey.

Named by the 1947 ANARE.

Two small islands about 26 km north of Williamson Head in Oates Land. Discovered on 8 March, 1961, by Phillip Law, leader of the ANARE Expedition on the MV Magga Dan. Named after the expedition ship of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13, the Terra Nova, from which Lieutenant H.L.L. Pennell, RN, sighted and named Oates Land.

The southernmost of a group of three nunataks in the northern part of the Manning Nunataks. The nunataks were photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and ANARE (1957). They were visited by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1965 and by ANARE in 1969. Named after J. Tester, aircraft engineer with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1969.

The most southerly of the Jocelyn Islands, about 1.4 km north-east of Mawson. The island has been frequently visited by ANARE parties from Mawson.

A bay east of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1937-37 and called Pollen (the deep bay).

Low, rounded, reddish-brown rocky hills on the coast of Enderby Land between Freeth Bay and Spooner Bay. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in November, 1956. Visited by the ANARE Expedition on the MV Thala Dan led by Don F. Styles in February, 1961. Named after M.V. Thala Dan.

An isolated, submerged rock, about 1.0 km from the western point of Turner Island, (Vestfold Hills). The depth of water over the rock probably does not exceed two metres.

An ice valley just south of Casey station, separating the station area from the main part of Bailey Peninsula. Named after M.V.Thala Dan, the vessel which re-supplied Casey station for many years.  

A small lake in the Vestfold Hills with prominent wave-formed beaches on the western side and on the gravel lead up from the southern end.

The rounded, amphitheatre-like basin opening to the west,lying between Sodomy Ridge to the north and the Mt Haswell ridge to the south. This is an important breeding area for Wandering Albatrosses and Giant Petrels and has been the site of much ongoing ornithological research. The name has been in common use, including in scientific publications, for many years.

A remarkable feature, giving the immediate visual impression of a large amphitheatre located on the eastern side of the Denman Glacier approximately 1.5km south of Cape Jones, Queen Mary Land. Feature bounded in west by ice-cliffs associated with narrow glacier tongue, up to 150m wide, which has split from eastern side of Denman Glacier. In north, east and south bounded by ice-free rock associated with ice cliffs created by severe wind-scour. Floor formed by melt-water lake, ~500m long north-south and up to ~180m wide east-west, into which have toppled glacial ice fragments. The feature was noted from the air while establishing mapping control station NMS282 in February 1986. It gives the impression of a ""witch's cauldron"".

A steep sided, moraine floored cirque cut in Beacon sandstone. A large, well formed amphitheatre on the eastern side of Colosseum Ridge near the head of the glacier filled enclave west of Richardson Hill, in the Eastern AAT.

Two hills in the Vestfold Hills on the southern side of Crooked Lake. The hills are both conical in shape especially when seen from the north-west, west and south-west. They are about 60 m high.

A flat valley extending EW along which the route from Davis to Ellis Rapids runs.

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.

Rock outcrops on the western side of David Island, about 6 km south of the Triplets. Discovered and named by the Western Base Party of the AAE (1911-14).

The narrow part of the Island just south of the Station which is an isthmus.

A hill about 80 m high in the western part of Broad Peninsula in the Vestfold Hills, about 1 km from the coast. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). First visited by ANARE parties from Davis in 1957.