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A group of small islands NNE of Cape Wilkins, Kemp Land.

A bay just east of Tilley Nunatak in Mac.Robertson Land.

A bold outcrop about 95 m high on the western end of the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered in February 1936 by the William Scoresby Expedition.

A long narrow lake which is permanently frozen. It is located on the south-east side of the North Masson Range. The lake measures 3.4 ha in area.

A ridge forming the north-western arm of the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named after W.H. Tilman, a mountaineering associate of Shipton and Odell, after whom the nearby Shipton Ridge and Odell Glacier were named.

A line of shallow water near Heard Island on which the sea breaks in rough weather. The shoal area extends about 5 kilometres north-east from Spit Point. During the Patanella Expedition, 1965 Tilman, the master of the Patanella, crossed these shoals close inshore to Spit Point during a period of calm weather. The name is proposed in recognition of expertise shown by Tilman as master of the vessel in successfully sailing the ship from Australia to Heard Island and back during that expedition.

A small glacier at the southern end of the Mawson Escarpment, about 98 km south of Barkell Platform. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and 1960.

A small nunatak with three separate outcrops, 35 km from Knuckey Peaks.

Two small rock features on the western edge of the Amery Ice Shelf. Discovered by the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1971. Named after Robert J. Tingey, geologist with the party.

Two nunataks about 22 km south-west of Mount Breckinridge in Enderby Land.

An ice dome overlying the borders of the Ross Dependency, the Australian Antarctic Territory and Terre Adélie near the South Pole. It extends east-west and rises to over 3 100 m. The dome was crossed by Amundsen's and Scott's parties on their journeys to the South Pole, 1911-12 and was mentioned as a major ridge rather than as an isolated dome. Mapped by radio echo sounding by the Scott Polar Research Institute.

Feature first named by Russia and adopted by Australia in 2011. It is shown on Russian map Mirny - scale 1:100,000 and SCAR map catalogue number 2934.

A gully about 1.4km west of Brock Gully in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Expedition (1964) who named it after the dialect name for a fox because of the resemblance to fox country in parts of England.

A truncated peak east of Harris Valley in the Shipton Ridge in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named after its resemblance to buildings of the civilisation of the same name.

A glacier 9 km east of Cape Kinsey in Oates Land. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump in 1947. Photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958. Named after the Soviet Polar aviator, M. Tomilin, who died in the Arctic.

A steep-sided, flat-topped island, approximately 4 km long and 2 km wide. Situated in the western part of Amundsen Bay. Sighted in October, 1956, by the ANARE Amundsen Bay party led by Peter W. Crohn and named after Lieut. Leslie Tonagh, RAASC, DUKW driver with the ANARE Expedition, 1956. The first landing was made by an ANARE aircraft piloted by Flying Officer J. Seaton in August, 1956.

One of two promontories to the south-west of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37, and called Storneskloa (Big Cape Claw).

A small skerry, close inshore, about 44 km west of Mawson. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Tangskjera (The Tongue Skerry). First visited by ANARE parties in 1954 and 1955.

An island in the northern part of the entrance to Long Fjord, Vestfold Hills. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1954, 1957 and 1958) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956).

The largest island in the southern part of the Rauer Group off the Ingrid Christensen Coast. The island is about 4 km long and reaches a height of about 115 m above sea level. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers, as being connected to the mainland, from photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).