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A creek flowing into Sandy Bay on the eastern coast of Macquarie Island.

About twelve ridges and spurs, mainly ice-free, extending over a distance of about 24 km east-west. The individual ridges are relatively short, mostly 2-4 km long and project northwards from the higher ice-covered surface to the south. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. The descriptive name was given by USACAN.

An island located at the northern end of Weddell Arm, Vestfold Hills.

The first gully south of the Isthmus flowing east into Buckles Bay.

A nunatak about 4 km south of Mt. Henderson in Mac.Robertson land. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Sørnuten (The South Peak). This feature was the site of a remote weather station established by ANARE in 1955. Renamed by ANARE after H J L Fischer, Cook at Mawson in 1958.

An embayment between the eastern side of the Mertz Glacier and the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia in 1911.

A long, prominent, western tributary of the Lambert Glacier, flowing east from approximately 60 degrees E, past the northern side of Mt Menzies and joining the main stream of the Lambert Glacier just east of Mt Stinear. Discovered from an ANARE aircraft by K B Mather in October, 1957. Named after Dr NH Fisher, chief geologist, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Australian Department of National Development.

A crescent shaped island west of Broknes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Sigdxy by Norwegian cartographers.

A large rock exposure on the western side of the Lambert Glacier, about 95 km south of the Aramis Range in the Prince Charles Mountains. Discovered by an ANARE party led by B H Stinear in October, 1957. Named after M.M. Fisher, surveyor at Mawson in 1957.

A rock spur about 17 km SSW of Lee Nunatak in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after D F Fisher, USARP geophysicist at McMurdo station in the summer of 1967-68.

A group of four isolated nunataks about 7 km north of Mount Codrington in Enderby Land. Photographed from ANARE aircraft in 1956. First visited during an airborne reconnaissance of Enderby Land in November 1959. Named after Brigadier L Fitzgerald, OBE, RA Svy C (Trd), Director of Survey in the Australian Army, 1942-1960.

A small island about 1.5 km south-west of Wilkes in the northern part of the Windmill Islands, off the Budd Coast. The area was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956) and the Russian Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named by USACAN after boatswain's mate J A Fitzpatrick, USN, a member of the party from the USS Glacier which made a survey of the Newcomb Bay area in February, 1957.  

The island lies between the southern ends of Hop and Filla Islands in the Rauer Group. The highest point is about 40 m. Flag Island is irregularly shaped. Charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

A rocky bench on the southern side of Beaver Lake, Mac.Robertson Land, about 3 m above the surface of the lake. The bench is littered with slabs of sandstone. Visited by ANARE survey parties in 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1969.The name is descriptive.

A loose rock-covered area of stagnant ice in the Vestfold Hills about 3 km by 1 km in area. Thermo karst features such as hummocks, lakes, and under-ice streams are common. The entire surface is unstable during the summer melt. The complete cover of loose rocks makes the area strikingly different from the bedrock areas of the Vestfold Hills.

A prominent cape about 2 km south-east of Cape Borley on the coast of Kemp Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Fleodden Cape (The Ledge Point, or Headland) by Norwegian cartographers.

Feature first named by Russia and adopted by Australia in 2011. It is shown on Russian map Vestfold Oasis - scale 1:200,000 and SCAR map catalogue number 2766.

A creek running out to the west coast of Macquarie Island just south of Cormorant Point. Named by Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-13. The name is descriptive.

Since the volcanic eruption on McDonald Island in 2000, Flat Island is now joined to McDonald Island and is now a headland. Previous description: This descriptive name for one of the McDonald Islands was proposed by the 1948 ANARE.The island to the north of McDonald Island.