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Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

Named after the planet because of the relative remoteness of this island from the rest of the Rauer Group and the difficulties encountered in visiting it. Flown over by helicopter and photographed for its geology in 1983.

The mountains extending in a N-S direction on the western side of the Rennick Glacier (Ross Dependancy). Plotted from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. The name is the initials of the United States Antarctic Research Program.

A group of nunataks about 24 km north-east of Perov Nunataks in Enderby Land. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and 1957 and by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1962. Named by the Soviet Expedition after G.A. Ushakov, Soviet polar explorer.

Translated from Norwegian the name means "The outer skerries". ut = out and skjera = the skerries. Original spelling was Utskjera with the modern spelling being the same. 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 Utstikkar Glacier and tongue are major features adjacent to the Jelbart Glacier on the Mawson Coast west of Mawson. The Utstikkar Glacier was named by the Norwegians in about 1939. This place name differentiates the Utstikkar Glacier from the Jelbart Glacier that forms the western section of the glacier feature.

Translated from Norwegian the name means "The inlet island". våg = inlet. Original spelling was Vågöy with the modern spelling being Vågøy. 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.

Translated from Norwegian the name means "The inlet-island calves". våg = inlet kalv = calf. Original spelling was Vågöykalvane with the modern spelling being Vågøykalvane. 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 Glacier on the western side of Heard Island drains to South West Bay between Erratic Point and Cape Gazert.

A low island, one of a group of ten small islands, about 9 km north-west of Mawson. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). The island was included in a triangulation survey carried out by Robert Dovers, officer-in-charge at Mawson in 1954. In 1955, an ANARE party landed there and established an automatic meteorological station.

A group of ten small islands about 9 km north-west of Mawson. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). One of the islands was included in a triangulation survey by Robert Dovers in 1954.

An isolated nunatak about 1,330 m above sea level, about 11 km south of the South Masson Range. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). F. Van Hulssen, technical officer (ionosphere) at Mawson in 1959

A small ice-covered eminence, about 2,360 m above sea level, about 33 km south-east of Wilhoite Nunataks. The flat summit of the feature merges with the ice sheet to the north and west but there is a steep cliff on the southern side. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

A glacier about 9 km wide, flowing north-west in the south-east side of Vincennes Bay, on the Budd Coast of Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Photographed by ANARE in 1956. Named by USACAN after Benjamin Vanderford, pilot on the sloop of war Vincennes of the US Exploring Expedition (1938-42) under Charles Wilkes.  Named by USACAN after Benjamin Vanderford, pilot on the sloop of war Vincennes of the US Exploring Expedition (1938-42) under Charles Wilkes.  

A bluff on the north east coast of the Laurens Peninsula, Heard Island.

A colony of emperor penguins located on the north eastern side of the West Ice Shelf. The colony is about 145 km north west of the Gaussberg and about 62 km north east of Karelin Bay. This colony was discovered by BAS in a satellite image taken in 2022. Note: emperor penguin colonies may not remain in one fixed location.

A flat-topped hill, 2,200 m above sea level, 300 m above the surrounding plateau, giving a good view of the Byrd Glacier and the mountains south of it. This was the most southerly point reached by the Darwin Glacier Party of the TAE (1956-58) who gave it this name because of the splendid view it afforded.

The plateau surface on Macquarie Island between Mt Ainsworth in the south and Stony Creek in the north. The plateau is thus distinct from the smaller plateau north of Stony Creek. The northern boundary coincides with the Finch-Langdon Fault and other boundaries are the boundary between the plateau and the escarpment surrounding the island. Ric Varne (born Riccardo Paravarni) was an English-born geologist who came to the Geology Department at the University of Tasmania in the mid 1960s as lecturer. He advanced through the system to be appointed Professor and sometime Head of Department in 1994. Professor Ric Varne was the leader of a group of three geologists from the University of Tasmania that first visited the island late in 1968 but Varne has been to the island several times since and has had many students and international collaborators working with him over the subsequent 30 years. The group spent only a few days there on this occasion, as part of the ANARE re-supply voyage at the end of 1968. His father was Italian but on Mussolini"s proscribed list and thus emigrated to the UK where Ric was born. The name on his birth certificate and his passport are different because his father anglicized the family name after Ric"s birth. His arrival in Tasmania coincided with the time of general acceptance of the concept of continental drift and the recognition of the vast difference in composition, structure and age between continental and oceanic crust. Having recognized the significance of the island, he was an active proponent of research there and international scientific publicity for its values.

An island about 16 km long, situated about 2 km south-east of Hop Island in the Rauer Group, off Ingrid Christensen Coast. Mapped as part of Hop Island from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.