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A glacier on the Wilkes Coast of Wilkes Land, about 41 km WSW of Cape Keltie. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and named by USACAN after J.D. Freeman, sailmaker on the sloop Vincennes of the United States Exploring Expedition (1938-42) under Wilkes.

An ice-covered point, just west of Freeman Glacier on Wilkes Coast. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after J.D. Freeman, sailmaker on the sloop Peacock, one of the ships of the US Exploring Expedition (1938-42) under Lieutenant (later Rear Admiral) C. Wilkes, USN.

A bay on the coast of Enderby Land, about 19 km west of Spooner Bay. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. First visited by the ANARE Expedition on the MV Thala Dan led by D.F. Styles in February 1961. Named after the Hon. Gordon Freeth, Australian Minister for the Interior, 1958-64.

A peak about 2330 metres high on the northern rim of Big Ben on Heard Island. The name was given by the 1948 ANARE Heard Island Expedition after Fremantle, Western Australia, an Australian port.

A glacier flowing into the head of Porpose Bay on the Banzare Coast of Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump and named by USACAN after J. Frost, boatswain on the brig Porpoise of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Wilkes.

A large lake about a kilometre north of Blundell Peak in the Larsemann Hills. Very steep ice cliffs border the lake's northern and western shores.

A very large, badly crevassed ice dome about 72 km south-east of Onley Hill, Mac.Robertson Land. The dome was the site of a tellurometer station established during an ANARE traverse from Mawson to Church Mountain, led by John Manning, surveyor at Mawson in 1967. The names describes the feelings of the party, which was considerably delayed there because of vehicle breakdown and forced to leave the survey incomplete until the following spring.

A ridge at the northern extremity of the Cobham Range. Discovered by the N.Z. Geological Expedition (1964-65), which so named it because although from below it looked a simple climb, great difficulty was experienced in traversing it.

An island off the north-eastern part of the Bunger Hills, Knox Coast. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).

One of the Haswell Islands, about 1.5 km south of Haswell Island. The Western Base Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14) plotted this island and another just north of it as one island and called it Fulmar Island because of the colony of Southern Fulmars on it. The Soviet Antarctic Expedition has shown that there are two islands and has applied the name Fulmar to the southernmost.

A creek at the north western end of Fairchild Beach on Heard Island which flows parallel to and just south west of the main lateral moraine south east of Compton Lagoon. The largest fur seal breeding colony on Heard Island in 1987/88 was at the mouth of this creek.

A rock in the Mackellar Islands lying to the north and north-west of Cape Denison, on the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named the group of islands after C.D. Mackellar of London, a patron of the expedition.

A group of low coastal hills extending SSE from the coast near the north-east corner of Casey Bay in Enderby Land. Discovered by an ANARE party led by B.H. Stinear in October, 1957. Named after W.V. Fyfe, Surveyor General, Western Australia.

A ridge extending southwards from Ship Cone in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). So named because of its swine-backed appearance in profile.

An island in the Mackellar Islands lying to the north and north-west of Cape Denison, on the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named the group of islands after C.D. Mackellar of London, a patron of the expedition.

A bay on the coast of George V Land just west of Cape Hudson. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1958). Named by the Soviet Expedition after M.I. Gadzhiev, Soviet polar worker.

A broken ridge in the Tula Mountains, Enderby Land, about 9 km NNW of Pythagoras Peak. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1956.

An escarpment of ice and rock about 15 km east of Mount Harding in the Grove Mountains, Princess Elizabeth Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs Named after d'A. T. Gale, officer-in-charge of the Antarctic Mapping Branch, Division of National Mapping of the Australian Department of National Development, who contributed substantially to Antarctic mapping.

A small island about 3.7 km north of the Shaw Islands in Casey Bay, Enderby Land. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named by the Soviet Expedition after N. Galkin, physician with the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-21).