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A group of peaks about 28 km east of Knuckey Peaks. Photographed in October 1956, by ANARE aircraft. Surveyed in December, 1958, by GA Knuckey during a dog-sledge journey fromn Amundsen Bay to Mawson. Named after the members of the 1958 ANARE dog-sledge party who were always referred to at Mawson as the "Doggers".

A rock feature, consisting of two small peaks and a connecting ridge, between Mount Gleeson and Mount Gibson in the Prince Charles Mountains. Fixed by theodolite intersection from Mount Willing and Fisher Massif.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

A small submarine bank, covered with only 0.8 m of water near Molodezhnaya station in Enderby Land. The bank was discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, which called it Banka Domashnyaya (Domestic Bank).

The highest ice feature (4 000 m+) in Antarctica. It is located within the AAT near the western boundary with Dronning Maud Land, and overlies the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains. Mapped in detail by radio echo sounding by the Scott Polar Research Institute and formerly designated Dome "A". Named after Argus the ship that carried Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology. Note: In Dec 2016, the name was changed from Argus Dome to Dome Argus. Documentation shows the approved name was Dome Argus.

An ice dome within the Australian Antarctic Territory near the eastern boundary with Terre Adélie. It rises more than 3 200 m and overlies part of the Aurora Subglacial Basin. It was formerly designated Dome Circe.

A glacier about 19 km long flowing north-eastwards into the Starshot Glacier, along the northern side of the Swithinbank Range. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after Cdr. E.W. Donnally, USN Commanding Officer of Detachment Alpha and Officer-in-Charge of the McMurdo Station winter party in 1962.

A group of five small islands lying well offshore, about 11 km north-west of Casey Station in the eastern part of Vincennes Bay. The largest island has very large Adilie penguin rookeries and there are small rookeries on the others. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). An Expedition led by Phillip Law in the Kista Dan sailed close by on 20 January, 1956. Named after J Donovan, (then) Administrative Officer of the Antarctic Division, Melbourne, and leader of a number of relief expeditions to Heard Island and Macquarie Island.  

A long thin promontory on the north-east part of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills.

A group of islands, including Warriner Island and Redfearn Island, off Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Mulvikholmane (The Mule Bay Islets) by Norwegian cartographers. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), and Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.

A bay lying at the western junction of the Ninnis Glacier with the land, on the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson who named it after G.P. Doolette of Perth, a patron of the expedition.

A hill of rock and stabilised moraine with vegetation on the sides, about 68 metres high with visibility to Round Hill and Lambeth Bluff on Heard Island.

A small eminence marking the highest point of Cooper Nunatak in the Brown Hills. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63). So named because of its small size.

A rocky island on the coast of George V Land near Point Alden. Discovered by the first French expedition to Terre Adelie (1949) under the direction of Andri Liotard during a trip to Cape Denison. Called Rocher du Douanier because it seemed to guard the limit of the French sector. When later analysis of French results showed the feature to be in the Australian Antarctic Territory, it was decided to retain the name Douanier.

A crescent shaped bay, approximately 1.3 kilometres across at the base of and between the arms of Scullin Monolith.
Named after Group Captain Eric Douglas, Polar Medal and Clasp with the BANZARE expedition 1929/31 and 1930/31 under the command of Sir Douglas Mawson.

Two small islands with three rocky outliers, about 33 km north-east of Mawson. During an aircraft flight from the Discovery (BANZARE under Mawson) on 31 December, l929, a group of islands was reported in about 66 degrees 40' 64 degrees 30' to which Mawson applied the name Douglas Islands. As a result of the 1931 voyage of the Discovery, the islands were placed in about 67degrees 20' 63degrees 32'. Norwegian exploration raised doubts about the existence of the islands. In 1956, an ANARE sledge party led by Peter.W. Crohn was unable to find the islands in their charted position but found two uncharted islands farther south to which the name has now been applied. Named after Rear Admiral H.P. Douglas, CMG, Hydrographer, FN, 1929.

A peak about 1,524 m high, about 20 km south-west of Mt. Codrington in Enderby Land. Probably discovered on 13 or 14 January, 1930, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson and named after Pilot Officer E. Douglas, RAAF, pilot with the expedition.

A point on the west coast of Macquarie Island.