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A broad, mainly ice-covered ridge that rises to over 1600m between Yancey Glacier and Sennet Glacier in Britannia Range.

A bay about 3 kms long by 0.6 kms wide that separates the Charnockite Peninsula from the Geomorfologov Peninsula. It is about 14 kms east of Thomas Island. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

The largest 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. Ll'in, navigator with the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-21).

"Unusually high and steep-sided island in the north west Rauer Group, situated 3.5km to the north north west of Filla Island trig point. Named Impregnable Island as it was not possible to land on it on any of 3 occasions that it was flown to or over by ANARE during geological field surveys in 1983 and 1988."

Translated from Norwegian the name means “The inner part of Bølingen". Original spelling was Indre Bølingen with the modern spelling being the same. 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 coast of Princess Elizabeth Land. This coast was charted by a Norwegian expedition under Capt. Klarius Mikkelsen in February, 1935, when a landing was made in the Vestfold Hills. Named after the wife of Lars Christensen, Norwegian whaling magnate.

A lateral lake of the Darwin Glacier, with a nunatak forming an island, bounded on the west by Colosseum Ridge and on the south by Kennett Ridge. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63).

A large lake on the northern part of the plateau on Macquarie Island. So named by LR Blake, Surveyor, Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 because of the island in the lake.

An island in the William Scoresby Archipelago about 2 km north of Bertha Island.

A strait joining Alasheyev Bight and Vozrozhdenya Bay, between Myall Islands and Cape Gaudis on the coast of Enderby Land. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named Proliv Issledovateley (Investigators Strait) by the Soviet Expedition.

A small rock outcrop, about 0.5 km long, attached to the continental ice of Knox Coast by a low saddle. It is about 7 km west of the Hatch Islands. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Landings were made by the ANARE on the MV Magga Dan under Phillip Law in February, 1960. The feature was used as a rescue base when a helicopter crashed nearby. Named after Captain P. Ivanoff, pilot of the crashed helicopter. An astro-fix was obtained on 19th February, 1960. Captain P. Ivanoff, pilot of a helicopter which crashed nearby.

A narrow tongue of land projecting from an island between Fold Island and the mainland of Kemp Land.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

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 short glacier flowing northwards from Hayter Peak on Laurens Peninsula, Heard Island.

The name Jacka Valley has been used by expeditioners to Heard Island since the 1960s for the valley formed by the Jacka Glacier. The Jacka Glacier has been retreating since first named in the 1940s and has now retreated to a small area high above the valley floor. The Jacka Glacier was named for Fred J Jacka, physicist, 1948 ANARE Heard Island Expedition and proposed by the 1948 ANARE. With the retreat of the glacier it was decided to name the new valley using the original name.

A prominent hill on the south-east side of Scale Lake on Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills.

A nunatak, about 2,407 m above sea level, near Sylvester Glacier. Plotted by the US Geological Survey from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named by USACAN after W.S. Jacobs, magnetician and seismologist at the South Pole Station in the winter of 1959.

A peak, about 2,040 m above sea level, at the northern end of the ridge west of Ragotzkie Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after J.D. Jacobs, US exchange observer at Vostok Station in 1964.