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A group of small islands about 3 km north-west of Mawson. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Flatxyholmane (The Flat Island Islets). The island mapped as Flatxy on the Norwegian map is actually three islands.

This bay of Long Fjord in the Vestfold Hills is a pupping site of Weddell seals. It holds fast ice in some years even when the ice has gone from other areas of the fjord.

A small, rocky island lying off the coast of George V Land, WSW of Cape Gray. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after F D Fletcher, a member of the expedition.

A small lake visible on the 1991 Interim Image Map but not shown on the 1971 map, located on the stream about 300 m south of Rookery Creek. On the 1971 map this stream is erroneously shown flowing to the sea; in fact it terminates in Floating Island Lake above the coastal cliffs. The interesting feature of the lake is the presence of two floating peat islands which move about with shifts in wind direction. The names Floating Island Tarn and its alternative, Floating Island Lake, have been in common usage for many years, and the former is used in "Subantarctic Macquarie Island: Environment and Biology", P.M.Selkirk, R.D.Seppelt & D.R.Selkirk, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

A small bluff adjacent to Law Base in the Larsemann Hills.

An outcrop of columnar rock on the eastern side of Spooner Bay, Enderby Land. Photographed from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. The ANARE Expedition on the Thala Dan led by D F Styles passed close by in February 1961. So named because of its fluted appearance when viewed from the sea.

An irregular-shaped island, almost cut in two, about 3 km north of Davis station in the Vestfold Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

An Emperor penguin colony situated in a group of icebergs on fast ice adhering to the eastern side of Bjerko Peninsula, Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered on 3 August, 1958, by Flt. Lieut. H.O. Wilson, RAAF whilst on a flight from Mawson to Davis. Named after M.J. Flutter, Officer-in-Charge at Davis in 1958.

A glacier about 19 km long, flowing eastward from the vicinity of Mount Albert Markham and Mount Nares to enter Starshot Glacier just south of Kelly Plateau. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after Cdr. W.F. Flynn, USN, commanding officer Mobile Construction Battalion, Special Detachment Bravo, at McMurdo Station during the winter of 1957.

A lake on the west coast of Macquarie Island, just south of Mount Waite.

A nunatak about 6 km ENE of Moore Pyramid on the northern side of the Scylla Glacier, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after R.A. Foale, radio operator at Davis in 1963.

A large, prominent tongue of blue ice, which plunges between Blank Peninsula and Mount Rich into the centre of the Brown Hills. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63). So named because in plan the glacier is shaped like the head and neck of a dog with a transverse zig-zag moraine forming the collar and a proglacial lake in the position of the ears. Fog regularly accumulated over the glacier from the Ross Ice Shelf.

Bluff located above Stephenson Lagoon, Heard Island

An island just east of Stefansson Bay off the coast of Kemp Land. Visited by ANARE parties since 1954. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Foldoya.

A small, oval lake on Manning Island in the Larsemann Hills.

A lone peak about 6 km west of Mount Banfield in the Hansen Mountains, Kemp Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after N.E. Foley, weather observer at Mawson in 1965, a member of one of the survey parties which carried out a tellurometer traverse passing through the Hansen Mountains in 1965.

A promontory of ice on the western side of the Amery Ice Shelf. Plotted from aerial photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. First visited by an ANARE party led by D R Carstens in November, 1962. Named after N E Foley, weather observer at Mawson in 1962, a member of the field party.

A bluff 7 km west of Cape Murray and 6 km north of Cheney Bluff, on the southern side of Carlyon Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after Lt. Cdr. R K Fontaine, USN, commander of USS Hissem on ocean station duty in support of aircraft flights between New Zealand and McMurdo Sound during Operation Deepfreeze 1964.

A precipitous cliff face which rises from Hoseason Beach on Heard Island and lies at the northern end of an exposed rock feature located between the Nares and Baudissin Glaciers and extending towards Big Ben. The cliff face exhibits limestone sedimentation. Named after Jock Forbes, carpenter with the 1952 ANARE, who died nearby on the Baudissin Glacier in 1952 following an accident on Hoseason Beach. He is buried on the island.

A glacier about 22 km west of Mawson in Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Brygga (The Wharf). Renamed after A Forbes of ANARE who perished on a field trip on Heard Island in 1952.