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A prominent rocky bluff at the head of Stibbs Bay in Mac.Robertson Land.

A very prominent conical peak in the David Range, Mac.Robertson Land, about 3 km south of Mount Parsons. This feature was used as an unoccupied trigonometrical station by J C Armstrong, surveyor at Mawson in 1959. So named because of the resemblance to a tooth.

A mountain about 2 km north of Mount Jacklyn in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs.Named after J A Farley, surveyor at Mawson in 1964.

A bay just east of the Helen Glacier in Queen Mary Land. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Dr C C Farr of New Zealand, a member of the AAE Advisory Committee.

A small island about 9 km NNE of Couling Island, in the William Scoresby Archipelago off Kemp Land.

A rock bluff about 2345 m above sea level in the Cook Mountains. Discovered and named by the Darwin Glacier party of the British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956-58).

A small, detached, conical hill about 2 km north-west of Mount Ward in the North Masson Range. It is separated from main massif by a small col containing a glacial lake (Lake Lorna). The peak is clearly visible standing out from the main massif to parties using the corridor between the Masson and David Ranges. Discovered and climbed for the first time in January 1956 by an ANARE party led by J.M. Béchervaise.

A ridge about 13 km long, about 13 km south-east of Parkinson Peak in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after Lieut. Cmdr. E J Feeney, USN, aircraft commander during US Operation Deepfreeze 68.

A fossiliferous valley west of Mount Watters in the Allen Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named after Prof. O Feistmantel, who made pioneering studies of Gondwana flora.

An extensive, flat-topped coastal outcrop on the western side of Casey Bay, Enderby Land. The dark-brown rock is almost sheer on the seaward side and rises a little above the level of the continental ice inland. Plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. First visited by an ANARE party led by S L Kirkby in November 1960. Named after Sgt K Felton, RAAF, engine fitter at Mawson in 1960.

A peak about 1 km west of the main massif of the Central Masson Range, Mac.Robertson Land, just north of Phillips Ridge. Named after O Ferguson, senior technician (electronics) at Mawson in 1962.

A glacier flowing ENE to the coast of Oates Land about 46 km east of Tomilin Glacier. Named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1963-64) after Sir Bernard Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand, who made a flight over the party during his visit to Antarctica.

A distinctive rock buttress (c.900m) near the E end of Cranfield Icefalls, on the S side and near the terminus of Darwin Glacier.

A plateau, 2440 m above sea level, about 19 km long and 6 km wide, just north of Mount Longhurst. Named by two members of the Darwin Glacier Party of the TAE (1956-58) who spent Christmas Day 1957 on the plateau.

Isthmus linking Laurens Peninsula to mainland Heard Island

A rock outscrop on the coast, about 2 km east of Mawson Station.

A large glacier which is situated on the south coast between Lavett Bluff and Lambeth Bluff. This glacier was originally called "the 1951 Glacier" by an ANARE party which made a traverse of the island in 1951.

A peak about 6 km south of Big Brother Bluff in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named aftrer P R Fikkan, USARP geologist at McMurdo station in the summer of 1967-68.

A rocky island about 5 1/2 km long and 85m high. It is the largest island of the Rauer Group. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Filla.

A small nunatak about 7 km ESE of Dallice Peak in the Central Masson Range. Photographed in 1958 by ANARE aircraft but not plotted on a map. Sighted by an ANARE party led by J. Williams in December, 1962, whilst collecting geological specimens and lichens in the Framnes Mountains. Named after Rex Filson, carpenter at Mawson in 1962, a member of the party.