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A small lake to the south-west of Low lake and due west of East Lake. At 40 m it is the highest lake at Cape Denison. The lake lies about 725 m ESE from Mawson's main hut.

A conspicuous nunatak lying about 2.3 km north-west of the Doublets on David Island, off Queen Mary Land. Named by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914. The name is descriptive.

A group of rocky islands and rocks about 95 km long and 9 to 28 km wide, extending in a north-east direction off the Bunger Hills, Knox Coast, Wilkes Lane.

A long narrow freshwater lake in the Vestfold Hills (measuring 1.25 km x 250 m wide at its widest point), which serves when frozen as a quick, direct route for travel as a "highway" between Long Fjord and Taynaya Bay. It overflows into Taynaya Bay. The water in the lake is slightly salty.

The easternmost of a pair of islands lying about 0.6 km west of the north-west tip of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. The centre of this island lies about 0.4 km to the north-east of the centre of Richardson Island.

A small, dark, rock outcrop at the north-western end of Mount Seddon in the southern Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted for air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after V.J. Hill, radio officer at Mawson in 1960.

A tributary glacier of the Hatherton Glacier, which flows northward between Forbes Ridge and Dusky Ridge. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after C.C. Hinton, Jnr., who wintered at McMurdo Station in 1963 and headed a team charged with the upkeep of mechanical equipment at the outlying US stations.

A small, steep, rocky island about 1 km long and about 75 m high, rising above the Shackleton Ice Shelf, about 3 km north of Delay Point, Queen Mary Land. Discovered and named by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). So named because it is shaped like a hippopotamus.

A group of islands about 19 km north-east of William Scoresby Bay, Kemp Land. The largest island of this group was discovered on 18 February 1931 by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson who thought it to be a cape and called it Cape Hobbs. Later exploration by the William Scoresby Expedition (1936) and the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) showed it to be an island.

Three small islanda about 0.8 km east of Gardner Island, off the Vestfold Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Plotted from ANARE vertical air photographs.

A ridge, about 28 km long, extending in a north-south direction, just north of Cotton Plateau and south of the Nimrod Glacier. Plotted by the US Geological Survey from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named by USACAN after Dr. M. Hochstein, glaciologist at Roosevelt Island in 1961-62, 1962-63 and 1963-64.

A group of several small, ice-capped islands, lying close inshore on the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after A.J. Hodgeman, a member of the expedition.

A group of small islands in the northern part of the Stanton Group, off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land, about 1 km south of Kamelen Island and about 5 km north-west of Oldham Island. The central island in the group affords the best camp site in the area. The group was mapped and named by BANZARE under Mawson in February, 1931. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and ANARE. Visited in 1969 by an ANARE dog-sledge party visiting Taylor Rookery. Named after Dr. J. Hogg, medical officer at Mawson in 1969.

The higher (northern) peak on a rock outcrop on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, about 4 km east of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen. It is about 140 m high. Plotted from Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and with Young Peak called Tvillingfjell (Twin Mountains). The peak was fixed by triangulation from an astrofixed baseline by an ANARE party from Davis led by William Young in 1963.

A rocky, roughly triangular island, about 95 m above sea level, at the south-west end of the Windmill Islands, off the Budd Coast, Wilkes Lane. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and its position fixed by USN Operation Windmill (1947-48). Named by USACAN after Lieut. Richard C. Holl, USNR, a member of a survey team which visited the island during Operation Windmill.  

Nunataks about 13 km north-east of Parkinson Peak in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after B.W. Holladay, avionics chief and maintenance control chief at McMurdo station during US Operation Deepfreeze 68.

An island just north of Midgley Island, Windmill Islands. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump, (1946-47). Named after J.T. Hollin, glaciologist at Wilkes in 1958.  

A broad glacier of low gradient, draining the vicinity east of the Ricker Hills and flowing north-east to enter David Glacier just east of Trio Nunataks, in Victoria Land. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1956-62.

A dome-shaped nunatak about 4 km south-west of Watson Bluff on the eastern side of David Island, off Queen Mary Land. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after W.A. Holman, Premier of NSW in 1911.

A bay about 38 km wide, containing many islands, lying to the north of the Masson and David Ranges in Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Holmevika (The Islet Bay) by Norwegian cartographers.