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The bay on the eastern side of the isthmus near the Station on Macquarie Island.

A bay, just east of the Ninnis Glacier Tongue on the coast of George V Land. Discovered in 1912 by AAE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after George Buckley of New Zealand, a patron of the expedition.

A mountainous ridge, just above the Cranfield Ice-falls, extending east-west and is a prominent feature on the southern side of the Darwin Glacier near its mouth. Discovered by the Darwin Glacier Party of the TAE (1956-58). Named after E S Bucknell, a member of the party.

The volcanic activity in 2000 extinguished the tarns named after Professor Budd so the decision was made at the 2006 AANMC meeting to name a new bay formed by the volcanic activity Budd Bay. The bay is just to the south east of where the tarns used to be. It is the bay to the north of Williams Bay. The original narrative for the extinguished tarns was: A group of five small freshwater lakes in the central part of McDonald Island. Although brackish, these tarns are an available source of water on the Island.

That portion of the coast of Wilkes Land, lying between the Hatch Islands and Cape Waldron. Delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The name was first applied by Wilkes to a coast reported as lying north of its true position. Named after Thomas A Budd, acting Master of the sloop Peacock of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42).

The ice rumples are a significant feature of the Amery Ice Shelf and are reflective of its interaction with the underlying ocean and the inland continental ice of the Lambert Glacier basin.

A pass on Heard Island at about 1220 m above sea level in the rock ridge extending south west from Budd Peak.Expedition.

A peak on Heard Island which is about 2316 m above sea level and about 3.3 km east-south-east of Mawson Peak. It is named after Dr Grahame M Budd, Officer-in-Charge 1954 ANARE Heard Island Expedition and leader of the 1963 ANARE Heard Island Expedition.

A high rock ridge running between Budd Pass and Budd Peak on Heard Island.

A rounded hill, oval in plan with a narrow connection to Bailey Peninsula, in the southern part of Newcomb Bay, Windmill Islands, about 500 m west of Casey station. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956) and ANARE (1956, 1962 and 1963). The hill was used as a trigonometrical station during a large-scale survey of the northern part of Bailey Peninsula by K Budnick, surveyor at Wilkes in 1964, after whom it was named.

Small island in the Svenner Islands, located in southern Prydz Bay.

A bay on the northern side of Long Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Mapped 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.

An area of several hundred square km of ice-free rock at the western end of Knox Coast, Wilkes Land. The south-western extremity was seen from Watson Bluff on David Island at a distance of about 76 km by A L Kennedy, magnetician and second surveyor with the Western Base Party of the AAE (1911-14) was carrying out a survey on foot. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).

The prominent bare hill which comprises the entire southern end of Gardner Island and is surmounted by a monumented survey control point. It is named as a memorial to Stephen Bunning, foreman of the Station Building Group who was critically injured in an explosion at Davis in October 1985 and who died while being evacuated.

An island just east of Beaver Island, Amundsen Bay, Enderby Land. Discovered in 1956 by an ANARE party led by P W Crohn. Named after J Bunt, biologist at Mawson in 1956.

A small oval lake on the northern shore of Taynaya Bay in the Vestfold Hills. It is approximately 400m long and 150m wide. The surface of the lake was marginally beneath sea level in November 1987. The maximum recorded depth is 6m although deeper spots may occur. The salinity of the lake water ranges (in late winter) from 100 gL -1 at the surface to 180gL-1 at the bottom (1987). The water below 4m was anoxic in 1987. The lake is probably permanently stratified and therefore meromictic. The lake provides another step in the spectrum of saline meromictic lakes from near fresh to hypersaline and is thus important in comparison to other such lakes. The lake is named after Dr Michael Burch who wintered at Davis in 1979. During this year he studied the phytoplankton of Ace Lake and other lakes of the Vestfold Hills and this research added significantly to knowledge of lakes in the area.

A group of peaks about 11 km east of Mount Torckler, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1957. Named after W M Burch, geophysicist at Wilkes in 1961.

A small, elongated island trending north-east to south-west which is the larger and the western most of a pair of islands in this vicinity. The island is about 4.3 km west of Cook Island. Dr Jim Burgess is an Australian geomorphologist who has conducted extensive research in the Larsemann Hills.

The basin is an approximately triangular shaped basin of Taynaya Bay in the Vestfold Hills. It is 1 km long and 0.8km wide. The maximum known depth of the basin is 32 m although deeper spots may occur. The water of the basin is stratified, being near seawater salinity at the surface and increasing to circa 70 gL-1 at 30 m. Stratification begins at a depth of 10 m. The basin is one of the approximately 7 stratified marine basins that occur in the Vestfold Hills. Such basins are rare and these are probably the only known examples from Antarctica. The biology of Burke Basin is likely to be similar to the rest of Taynaya Bay and the ocean in the upper water, but like meromictic lakes in the lower water. The anoxic water probably supports dense populations of sulphate reducing bacteria beneath a layer of photosynthetic sulphur bacteria.

A low ridge, partly snow covered, with three prominent rock outcrops, about 65 km south of Mount Newton in the southern Prince Charles Mountains, Mac.Robertson Land. Photographed by ANARE in 1960. First identified on the air photographs in 1971. Intersected from several survey stations during the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey in 1972. Named after E H Burke, Technical Officer (Survey) with the Prince Charles Mountains surveys in 1970 and 1972.