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A distributary glacier of the Darwin Glacier, about 8 km long and 2 km wide which narrows to a snout which enters a valley opening out at Lake Wilson. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63). Named from nearby Diamond Hill.

A snow-free hill, diamond-shaped in plan, on the northern side of the lower reaches of the Darwin Glacier. Named by the Darwin Glacier Party of the TAE (1956-58) which carried out a ground survey in the area.

A glacier just east of Davis Bay, Wilkes Coast, Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after Jonas Dibble, ship's carpenter on the sloop Peacock of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Lieut. (later Rear Adm.) C Wilkes.

An iceberg tongue extending northwards for about 110 km from the disturbed continental ice just east of Davis Bay. The iceberg tongue extends seaward to the edge of the continental shelf. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Photographed by Phillip Law, who determined the nature and extent of this feature. Highjump photographs were interpreted by US cartographers as showing a glacier and a prominent glacier tongue, which were named by USACAN after Jonas Dibble, ship's carpenter on the sloop Peacock of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42).

A group of peaks in the Raggatt Mountains, Enderby Land, 4 km east of Mount Humble. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after W Dick, Weather Observer at Mawson in 1960.

An island of rock and ice about 0.9 km north of Curritick Island at the western end of Highjump Archipelago, north of the Bunger Hills. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).

Promontary north-east of the Clark Peninsula overlooking the Swain Group. Jack’s Donga (field hut) is located at Dieso Promontory.

A group of outcrops and nearby islands on the southern margin of Khmara Bay, Enderby Land. The name was the immediate response of the confused geologist faced with the problem of the very complex geology at this locality.

A tussock covered hill about 2 kilometres north-west of Cape Labuan, Heard Island. This was the site of a survey station established in March 1980 for Doppler satellite observations.

An ice dome, 431 m above sea level, in the northern part of the Sakellari Peninsula, Enderby Land. Discovered and photographed in 1956 during flights by ANARE aircraft from Mawson. Named after W R J Dingle, Officer-in- Charge and meteorologist at Davis in 1957.

An ice dome 30 km SSW of Point Williams on the Lars Christensen Coast. Discovered on 12 February, 1931, by Sir Douglas Mawson, BANZARE, who named it after the master of a Norwegian whaling ship who supplied the Discovery with some coal during the voyage.

A submarine bank on the Kerguelen Plateau 108 nautical miles north-west from Heard Island. The bank is about 200 metres deep. The position has been fixed by echo sounding and GPS and it has been mapped by various survey vessels including the Eltanin, Cape Pillar, Professor Mesyatsev and RSV Aurora Australis. The RRS Discovery did important bathymetric and oceanographic work in this vicinity on the first BANZARE voyage in 1929-30.

A circular lake about a kilometre west of Law Base in the Larsemann Hills.

The basin is a large area south of Oblong Lake in the Vestfold Hills. The surface is undulating and littered with erratics. There are numerous small lakes and ponds.

A group of nunataks about 57 km south of Rayner Peak in Kemp Land. Photographed in 1956 by ANARE aircraft. Surveyed in December, 1958, by G A Knuckey during a dog-sledge journey from Amundsen Bay to Mawson. So named because the mountains are frequently shrouded in cloud.

An ice-covered rock mass on the western side of the mouth of the Ninnis Glacier on the coast of George V Land. The feature is about 19 km long and 9 km wide, rising to about 335 m. Discovered in 1912 by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Sir Hugh Dixson of Sydney, a patron of the expedition.

A peninsula in the Bunger Hills

A small island in the Publications Ice Shelf, about 20 km south of the Sxstrene Islands. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936).Named after D M Dodd, weather observer-in-charge at Davis station in 1963.

Two small, dark rock exposures on the southern side of Single Island, on the western side of the Amery Ice Shelf. Discovered from an ANARE aircraft in 1969. Photographed from an ANARE aircraft in 1971. Named after Dr R Dodson, senior geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey in 1971.

A bay about 30 km long and 9 km wide on the western side of the Amery Ice Shelf, between Foley promontory and Landon Promontory. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956,. First visited in November, 1962, by an ANARE dog-sledge party, led by I Landon-Smith, which made a reconnaissance for a route from the plateau on to the Amery Ice Shelf. Named after the dog-sledge party.