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An ice-covered cape on the Wilkes Coast, about 20 km west of Cape Cesney. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) from the SYAurora. Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Dr. Scott Keltie, Secretary of the Royal Geological Society in 1911. Mawson described this feature as being the most northerly part of the Wilkes Coast. It is the most northly part west of Davis Bay, but air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and ANARE show that the coast east of the Dibble Iceberg Tongue extends farther north.

A cape on the eastern side of Melba Peninsula, Queen Mary Land. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after A.L. Kennedy, a member of the expedition.

A cape on the coast of Oates Land on the eastern side of Davies Bay. Discovered in February, 1911 from the Terra Nova of the British National Antarctic Expedition (1911-13) under Scott. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Visited by the ANARE Expedition on the MV Magga Dan led by Phillip Law in March, 1961. Named after J.J. Kinsey, who represented Scott's expedition in New Zealand.

A cape in the Thala Hills, Enderby Land, about 3 km east of Molodezhnaya station. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named Mys Kogot' (Cape Claw) by the Soviet Expedition.

A cape on the ice coast of Enderby Land, about 6 km north of the Sheelagh Islands. Photographed by ANARE aircraft in 1956. Photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958. Named after the polar aviation navigator, Kolosov, who died in the Arctic.

A cape on the eastern side of Freeth Bay, Enderby Land, separating Vozrozhdenya Bay and Sibiryachka Bay. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named Mys Kosistyy by the Soviet Expedition.

A rocky cape on the south west coast of Heard Island. The feature was named after HMAS Labuan (formerly LST 3501), which landed and relieved the 1948 ANARE party. The name was given by members of the 1948 ANARE.

An ice-covered cape on the western side of Maury Bay, Banzare Coast, Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and named by USACAN after T. Lewis, gunner on the sloop Peacock, one of the ships of US Exploring Expedition (1938-42) under Lieut. (later Rear Adm.) C. Wilkes, USN.

A rocky cape on the south-east coast of Heard Island.

The northernmost cape on the north-eastern part of the West Ice Shelf. Plotted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956. Named after the Soviet hydrographer, G.S. Maksimov.

An ice cape about 13 km west of Mount Riiser-Larsen in Enderby Land. Named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition after K.K. Markov, Professor of the Geography Faculty of the University of Moscow.

A cape on the Moscow University Ice Shelf, Sabrina Coast, Wilkes Land, about 114 km west of the Henry Islands. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump in 1947. Plotted on base compilation sheets by Gardner Blodgett of the Office of Geography, US Department of the Interior, in 1955. Photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956. Named after N. Mikhaylov, artist with the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-21).

A cape on the south-western part of Dingle Dome, Enderby Land. The region was photographed by ANARE in 1956 and by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in the Lena in 1957. Named by the Soviet Expedition after S.E. Monakov, Soviet polar aviator, who perished in the Arctic.

A low, ice-covered cape on the eastern side of Porpoise Bay which separates the Banzare Coast from Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and named Cape Morse by USACAN after William H. Morse, purser's steward on the brig Porpoise, of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Wilkes.

An ice-covered point on the coast of Queen Mary Land, about 33 km west of Cape Dovers. Discovered by the Western Base party of the AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after M.H. Moyes, a member of the expedition.

Feature first named by Russia and adopted by Australia in 2012. It is shown on Russian map Cape Bugepyunten - scale 1:200,000 and SCAR map catalogue number 2822.

A cape on the ice-coast of Oates Land, just west of Slava Bay. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump in 1947. Photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956. Named after P. Novosilskiy, Sub-Lieutenant on the Mirny during Bellinghausen's Expedition (1819-21).

An ice-covered cape, marked by several rock outcrops with further small outcrops to the north-west, on the western side of Vincennes Bay, on Knox Coast, Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after Cmdr. D.C. Nutt, USNR, who served as marine biologist on USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

An ice-covered cape about 67 km west of Gauseberg, facing the West Ice Shelf. This feature marks the boundary between Princess Elizabeth Land and Wilhelm II Land. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Dr. Albrecht Penck, internationally known German geographer.