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A lagoon enclosed by rock, ice and moraine on the south west coast of Heard Island. The feature was discovered by Flight Lieutenant M. Smith, RAAF, pilot of the Walrus seaplane which accompanied HMAS Labuan and made the first flight over the island on 13 December 1947.

A small bay near the south-west corner of Filla Island in the Rauer Group where the schooner Dick Smith Explorer wintered from February 1983 to January 1984. This was the headquarters of the Frozen Sea Expedition of the Oceanic Research Foundation 1982-1984.

The high flat topped hill at the north end of the Island on which the AAE radio installation was established.

A peak, 1,580 m high, on the western side of the Deception Glacier, marking the southern end of Warren Range. Plotted from US Navy air photographs. Named by USACAN after K.A.J. Wise, biologist at McMurdo Station for three seasons, 1961-62, 1962-63, and 1963-64.

A group of small islands, about 3 km south of MacDonald Islands and about 12 km north-west of Mawson. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE.

A small island in the western part of Casey Bay, Enderby Land, just off the Hannan Ice Shelf. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956. Named after the Australian native animal, the wombat.

A rock, north of Cameron Island, in the Swain Group, Windmill Islands. 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 islands north of Wilkes carried out by C.R. Eklund, scientific leader at Wilkes in 1958. Named by USACAN.  

A group of small nunataks about 4 km south of the main massif of the Casey Range. The area was visited by an ANARE party led by I.-Landon-Smith in April, 1962. Named after B.D. Woodberry, ionosphere physicist at Mawson in 1962, a member of the field party.

A rock outcrop about 9 km south-east of Mount Biscoe in Enderby Land. Discovered on 13 or 14 Janujary, 1930, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Dr. J.M. Wordie, a member of Shackleton's 1914-16 expedition.

Icefalls in the upper part of the Nimrod Glacier, south of the Geologists Range. Named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-62) after F.A. Worsley, a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-16) and the Shackleton - Rowett Antarctic Expedition (1921-22).

An embayment on the western side of the Helen Glacier on the coast of Queen Mary Land. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Dr. C.S. Wright of Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910-13).

A large, flat-topped hill on the northern side of the lower reaches of the Darwin Glacier. Discovered by the Darwin Glacier Party of the TAE (1956-58). Named after D. Wright, a member of TAE who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary to the South Pole.

A small group of islands and rocks off the northern extremity of the Vestfold Hills, about 1 km north of Walkabout Rocks.

An island in the Swain Group, about 5 km north-east of Wilkes station. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). The feature was included in a ground survey by C.R. Eklund in 1957. Named by USACAN after a member of the 1957 Wilkes party, aerographer's mate P.A. Wyche, USN.  

A small ice shelf on the eastern side of Dingle Dome, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956 and 1957. Named after R.W.L. Wyers, glaciologist at Mawson in 1961.

A group of nunataks on the eastern side of Dingle Dome, Enderby Land, about 13 km north-west of Mount Cronus. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956 and 1957. Named after R.W.L. Wyers, glaciologist at Mawson in 1961.

A very steep glacier flowing into Byrd Glacier just west of Sennet Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

A group of nunataks, south of Mount Elkins in the Napier Mountains, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1956. Named after William F. Young, electrical fitter at Mawson in 1961.

A peak just south of Mount Holder and about 4 km east of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and with Holder Peak called Tvillingfjell (Twin Mountain) by Norwegian cartographers.

Translated from Norwegian the name means " The outer part of Bølingen". Original spelling was Ytre Bølingen 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.