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Three small rocky islands protruding through the Shackleton Ice Shelf, about 7 km north of Cape Moyes. Queen Mary Land. Discovered by the Western Base Party of A A E (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after F. Gillies, a member of the expedition.

An ice-covered island about 28 km long and 4-6 km wide, with numerous outcrops exposed along its flanks, extending NNW-SSE, on the eastern side of the Amery Ice Shelf. Delineated from air photographs taken by U S N Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after Lieut. R.A. Gillock, U S N, navigator on USN Operation Highjump flights in the vicinity.

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.

Translated from Norwegian the name means "The small valley island". gjot = small valley, hollow, depression. Original spelling was Gjotöy with the modern spelling being Gjotøy. Feature first mapped by the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936-37 with the name shown on Hansen Chart - Atlas of Parts of the Antarctic Coastal Lands / Ingrid Christensen Coast / Sheet 10 published in 1946. Scar map catalogue map number 12811. Name adopted by Australia in 2011.

The southernmost of the Donovan Islands, off the Budd Coast. The area was photographed by U S N Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named by USACAN after R. Glascal, auroral scientist at Wilkes in 1957.  

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

Glavnyj Island lies within Lake Figurnoe in the Bunger Hills. There are two small spits on the south-western side. The island has steep slopes up from the shore on all sides and cliffs on the south-eastern shore. The island was charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

Glider Lake is a triangular shaped saline lake approximately 500 m by 150 m in area on the southern shore of Taynaya Bay in the Vestfold Hills. The lake surface is marginally beneath sea level, and the maximum recorded depth is 9 m. It is probable that the lake is permanently stratified and therefore meromictic.The lake has been named as its shape looks something like a hang glider.

A steep-sided, narrow gully about 900 m long on the eastern side of Bainmedart Cove, Radok Lake, in the Prince Charles Mountains. A three-man party from the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey camped near the mouth of the gully for a month in January-February 1969. So named because of the fossil plant found in the top part of the gully.

A conical peak about 1.7 km north-west from Blundell Peak in the Larsemann Hills. It rises steeply from its western coastal shoreline.

A bay between Tottan Head and Gorilla Head Rock on the north-east coast of Wireless Hill. It was a popular spot for the goats introduced to the Island in 1948 to camp. Goats are no longer on the Island.

A linear rocky eminence, 0.8 mi long, which extends in a NW-SE direction along the E side of Browning Peninsula, at the S end of the Windmill Islands. First mapped from air photos taken by USN OpHjp and OpWml in 1947 and 1948. Named by the US-ACAN for Burton D. Goldenberg, meteorologist and member of the Wilkes Station Party of 1962. Adopted from the USA gazetteer.  

A ridge extending from Mount Henderson on the north-eastern side. A high point on this ridge was used as a tellurometer station by D.R. Carstens, surveyor at Mawson, in January, 1962. Named after Robert W. Goldsworthy, field assistant (survey) on the ANARE Expedition, on the MV Nella Dan, (1962).

A partly snow-covered rock ridge situated about 11 km south-west of Taylor Platform in the Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956 and 1960. Named after A.W. Goodall, diesel mechanic at Macquarie Island in 1962 and Davis in 1964.

A group of three rows of nunataks, oriented approximately east-west and 19-28 km long, at the western end of the Fisher Glacier. Discovered by the ANARE southern seismic party led by K.B. Mather in January, 1958; first visited by a weasel party led by M. Mellor. Named after M.J. Goodspeed, geophysicist at Mawson in 1957.

A group of mountains and hills about 1220 m above sea level in the Britannia Range, about 22 km south-east of Mount Reeves on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-04) under Scott.

The most central and highest peak in the Brown Range, Mac.Robertson Land. It is about 1,484 m above sea level. This peak is one of the two peaks plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and called Sortindane (The South Mountain Peaks) by Norwegian cartographers. It was used as an unoccupied Trigonometrical station by Max J. Corry, surveyor at Mawson in 1965. Named for P.J. Gordon, radio technician at Mawson in 1965.

A small island in the Haswell Islands, about 6 km SSW of Haswell Island. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956) and named after D. Gorev, a member of the British National Antarctic Expedition (1910-13) under Scott.

A peak south of Mt Hughes in the Cook Mountains, Eastern AAT. The peak is sandstone with dolerite intrusions and is a sharp summit ridge.

A descriptive name proposed by an early Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition.