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A bold headland on the western side of Oom Bay, Mac.Robertson Land.

One of four nunataks about 6 km east of Browning Peninsula on the Budd Coast. Plotted from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Photographed by ANARE (1956) and by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named by USACAN after photographer's mate H Campbell, Jnr., USN, who took part in USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).  

A peak about 2340 metres high on the north east rim of Big Ben on Heard Island. Group Captain Stuart Campbell visited the Island first as a pilot with BANZARE in November-December 1929, and again as Officer-in-Charge of the 1948 ANARE Heard Island Expedition when the station was established.

The southern of the two largest islands of the Canopus Islands, about 9 km north-east of Mawson. The two islands were mapped as one and called Spjotxy by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). The island was included in a triangulation of the islands near Mawson in 1959.

A group of small islands and rocks just north of the Klung Islands. Mapped and called Spjotxyholmane by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37.

Two small, isolated low-lying rocks about 2 km WNW of the Canopus Islands. Plotted from ANARE air photographs.

Cliffs on the northern side of the Law Glacier. The cliffs are about 28 km long and very steep in most places. Discovered and named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Expedition (1961-62).

A conical peak about 1.85 km south-west of Law Base in the Larsemann Hills.

An irregular elongated lake in the Vestfold Hills trending north-south and measuring approximately 1 km long and 50-100 m wide. It is bounded by rock on the south and moraine covered ice and the edge of the icecap on the east.

A cape on the coast of Oates Land about 33 km south-east of Cape Davydov. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956. Named by the Soviet Expedition after History Professor A.N. Andreyev.

A cape on the Enderby Land coast, 6 km north of Mt. Biscoe. First applied by John Biscoe in March, 1831, to 'A bluff point in the south-east which has every appearance of a cape'. Sir Douglas Mawson described Cape Ann as a point on the coast near where the rocky peak of Mt. Biscoe rises. Aerial photography by ANARE in 1956-58 showed that there is no marked point on the coast near Mt. Biscoe so the name has been applied to the feature to the north. Probably named after Biscoe's mother.

A rocky cape on the south west coast of Heard Island. The German war-frigate Arkona (Captain von Reibnitz) examined the south coast of the Island in February 1874 and, in Melbourne, provided the officers of H.M.S. Challenger with a position for the cape which was used in the preparation of the Admiralty chart. German war-frigate Arkona. The name appears on Challenger's charts.

A prominent point on the coast of George V Land, between Murphy Bay and Ainsworth Bay. Discovered in 1912 by the A.A.E. under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Lieut. R. Bage, R.A.E., a member of the expedition.

A small, rocky point on the coast, the most northerly cape of Enderby Land. Discovered by BANZARE (1929-31) on 13 January, 1930. Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Sir Henry Fagg Batterbee, Assistant Secretary of the Dominions Office, London, at the time of the expedition.

A rocky cape on the north coast of Heard Island. The cape was named by Drygalski after Dr F. Bidlingmaier, magnetician of the scientific staff of the German South Polar Expedition 1901-1903 on the Gauss and one of the landing party, 3 February 1902.

A rocky cape about 7 km WSW of Cape Wild on coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after L Blake, a member of the Macquarie Island party of the expedition.

A rock cape in the Thala Hills, Enderby Land, about 5.5 km east of Molodezhnaya station. Photographed by ANARE in 1956, the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named Mys Bliznetsov (Cape Gemini (or Twins)) by the Soviet Expedition.

A rounded cape on a large projection of the coast of Kemp Land, just north of Edward VIII Gulf. Discovered on about 28 February, 1936, by the William Scoresby Expedition. Named after the captain of the William Scoresby, Lieut. Commander C R U Boothby RNR.

A cape on the coast of Enderby Land between Magnet Bay and Proclamation Island. Discovered on 12 January, 1930, by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after J O Borley, an officer of the Discovery Investigation Committee, who assisted BANZARE with arrangements to take over the Discovery.

The northern tip of a small island separated from the mainland rocks just west of Taylor Glacier, Mac.Robertson Land, by a shallow channel. Discovered by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson. A landing was made there on 18 February, 1931.