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A small peak on the western end of Mount Cresswell in the southern Prince Charles Mountains, Mac.Robertson Land. Photographed by ANARE in 1958. The feature was used as a navigation marker by ANARE parties in the vicinity. Named after P.B. Gallagher, Senior Diesel Mechanic at Mawson in 1971.

Two small islands separated by a narrow channel about 18 m wide in the eastern part of Magnet Bay. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Galten (The Boar). First visited by an ANARE party led by Bruce H. Stinear in September, 1957.

The subglacial mountains are within the Australian Antarctic Territory near the western boundary with Dronning Maud Land. They underlie and extend beyond the area of Dome Argus. The mountains were discovered by a Soviet Union Seismic party in 1958.

A small nunatak, lying approximately in the centre of Hordern Gap in the David Range between Mt. Coates and Mt. Hordern. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Metoppen (The Middle Peak). Renamed because of its location in Hordern Gap.

The bay just east of Hut Hill at the Southern end of Wireless Hill on Macquarie Island.

An island about 2 km long and 1 km wide, about 4 km west of Davis station in the Vestfold Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Breidneskollen (The Broad Cape Knoll). Renamed by ANCA after L.G. Gardner, diesel mechanic at Davis, 1958.

It has contorted rock strata which gives it the appearance of a gargoyle.A blunt headland, about 120 metres in height, facing Cauldron Bay, McDonald Islands. With the volcanic eruption On McDonald Island in 2003 the original feature disappeared so the name was recycled.

A rock ridge at the southern end of the Cobham Range. Mapped from ground surveys by the N.Z. Geological and Survey Antarctic Expeditions (1960-61, 1961-62) and air photographs taken by the US Navy. So named by the N.Z. Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1964-65) because of the curiously carved rock buttresses on top of the ridge.

A dark rock outcrop, about 150 m high, projecting from the ice plateau at the southern edge of the Larsemann Hills about 1.8 km SSW of Law Base.

A rocky point consisting of garnet gneiss, about 20 km south-east of Cape Gray on the coast of George V Land. Discovered and named by A A E (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson.

A jagged ridge, 4.9 km long, that runs E from the S part of Bowling Green Plateau in Brown Hills, Cook Mountains.

Beach located on West Bay north of Mangoro Head, Heard Island

An extinct volcanic cone about 369 m high, on the western side of Posadowsky Bay on the coast of Wilhelm II Land. Discovered in February, 1902, by the German Antarctic Expedition (1901-03) under Prof. Erich von Drygalski who named it after his expedition ship Gauss, which was frozen in the pack ice about 80 km to the north until February, 1903.

A glacier in the E part of Britannia Range. It drains N from the saddle with Merrick Glacier to a juncture with Darwin Glacier between Cranfield Icefalls and Nebraska Peaks.

An ice piedmont and snow slope occupying the coastal platform between Darwin and Byrd Glaciers.

A solitary N-S ridge, 4.4 km long, located 5 km NW of Eilers Peak in the W part of Nebraska Peaks.

An island in the Bunger Hills. Charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956. Named after one of the characters from a novel of A. Gajdar, "Chuk i Gek".

A hill about 115 m high, about 2.6 km west of Law Base in the Larsemann Hills.

A bay just to the west of Casey Station on Bailey Peninsula, Windmill Islands. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956) and ANARE (1956, 1962 and 1963). Named after Geoffrey D.P. Smith, Senior Technical Officer (Buildings) with the Antarctic Division, Melbourne, who was a member of the team which planned and supervised the construction of Casey Station.