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Small round, dome-shaped island neighbouring Chorus Island in the Svenner Islands, located in southern Prydz Bay.

An island located off Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills.

A submarine ridge on the Kerguelen Plateau about 65 nautical miles from Heard Island. Gunnari Ridge has been mapped by various survey vessels including the Eltanin, Cape Pillar, Professor Mesyutsev and the RSV Aurora Australis. Consistently high catches and abundance of the icefish, Clampsocephalus gunnari have been recorded from this ridge in 150-280 m depth.

A group of mountains on the coast of Mac.Robertson Lane, about 20 km south-west of Scullin Monolith, comprising Mount Hinks, Mount Kennedy, Mount Marsden and Mount Rivett. Land was seen in this vicinity during aeroplane flights by BANZARE under Mawson on 31 December 1929 and 5 January 1931. The area was visited by BANZARE on 13 February 1931, when a landing was made at Scullin Monolith. In January-February 1931, personnel on several Norwegian whalers sketched and photographed this coast and called these mountains Gustav Bull Fjella, after Captain Gustav Bull, at that time whaling manager on the factory ship Thorshammer.

The old airstrip on blue ice above Mawson.

A bay just west of the Hoseason Glacier. Mapped and called Breidvika (The Broad Bay) by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

A low conical peak, about 30 m above the ice on the eastern side of the Amery Ice Shelf, about 22 km north-east of Pickering Nunatak.There is an area of low-lying moraine on the western side of the peak. Photographed by ANARE aircraft in 1957. Visited by a geological party from the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in January, 1966. Named after J. Haigh, geophysicist at Mawson in 1965, who accompanied the Soviet party.

One of the Swain Group, Windmill Islands, between Cameron Island and Burnett Island. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956 and 1962) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). It was included in a survey of the Swain Group carried out by C.R. Eklund, scientific leader at Wilkes in 1957. Named by USACAN.  

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 small nunatak just above the lower Nimrod Icefalls. The feature is rounded on one side and cut into sheer cliffs on the other. Discovered and named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-62).

The bay on the west coast of Macquarie Island between Handspike Point and Elizabeth and Mary Point.

A hill which is "halfway" between the Isthmus and Nuggets Point. Named by the Australian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14.

A group of five nunataks about 13 km south-east of Mount Bunt in the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1960. Named after R.G. Hall, assistant diesel mechanic at Wilkes in 1964.

A flat area in the Allan Hills, SSW of Coxcomb Peak. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named after Dr T.G. Halle, who carried out pioneering work on Antarctic fossil plants.

A prominent rock bluff on the southern side of Sandefjord Bay, about 19 km west of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Visited by I.R. McLeod, geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains Survey party in 1969.

A rock peak, about 151 m high, partly ice covered, about 11 km WNW of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Named after G.F. Hamm, Officer-in-Charge at Mawson in 1968, who established a survey station on the feature.

A nunatak, 1,620 m high, west of the Warren Range, 9 km WNW of Wise Peak. Plotted from US Navy air photographs. Named by USACAN after K.C. Hamner, biologist at McMurdo Station, 1960-61.

Nomenclature Board of Tasmania Regn10642J/ Decn 8776 "Where the coastal terrace 1/2 mile east of Handspike Point meets the steep slope up to the plateau. This is a useful milestone on the coastal track -? it is the spot where the ANARE station first comes into view when travelling from Half Moon Bay - and is known to ANARE men by this name" {Johnson & Kerry, Antarctic Division biologists, 1971}. #C: ANARE Corres: 19710707

The origin of this name on the north-west coast is uncertain but, after its first publication on the 1917 edition of Admiralty Chart no 1022 it was accepted by Mawson as preferable to the name West Point.

A small, shallow round lake which is approximately 100 metres at the widest point, 300 metres in length and 2.5 metres deep in the centre. The lake is permanently frozen throughout the year except for some melt on the water/lake edge in summer. The lake is easily missed when on Lake Henderson and this is largely because it is at a slightly higher elevation. As such, it was referred to as "Hanging Lake".