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A small island on the western side of Casey Bay, Enderby Land, just west of Pinn Island. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956. Named after the Australian native animal, the Koala or 'native bear'.

An island, about 75 m above sea level, off the eastern side of the Hoseason Glacier Tongue in Kemp Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Kollen (The Knoll) by Norwegian cartographers.

A hill just north of the main section of the station at Mirny. Plotted and named Sopka Komsomolskaya by the first Soviet Antarctic Expedition at Mirny in 1956.

A partly snow-covered peak rising above the plateau about 240 km SSE of Mount Menzies. Discovered by the crew of a Soviet aircraft on 7 December 1958 during a flight from the Pole of Inaccessibility to Mirny. Photographed by ANARE in December 1960. Named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition.

A raft-like nunatak in the centre of the lower Nimrod ice falls. Discovered by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-62). Named after the raft Kon-Tiki which drifted across the Pacific Ocean from east to west in 1947.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1958.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

A group of five small peaks about 4 km north-west of Mount Starlight in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Recorded on terrestrial photographs taken by R.H. Lacey, surveyor at Mawson in 1955, and aerial photographs by ANARE in 1959 and 1965. Named after C. Kotterer, weather observer-in-charge at Davis in 1964.

A group of nunataks about 13 km north of Mount Parviainen in the Tula Mountains, Enderby Land. The geology of these outcrops was investigated by geologists from the Soviet Antarctic Expedition who called them Gory Kozlova (Kozlov Mountains) after M.I. Kozlov, Soviet Polar pilot.

The peninsula lies 2.5 kms north-west of Edgeworth David and about 3.0 kms north-east of Cape Hordern. The peninsula is roughly oval in shape measuring about 1.3 kms by 0.8 kms. It rises to a peak near its western edge. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

Nunataks about 20 km south-east of Alderdice Peak in the Nye Mountains, Enderby Land. Plotted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition which named them after the Soviet icebreaker Krasin.

A nunatak about 7 km south of Alderdice Peak in the Nye Mountains, Enderby Land. This feature was named Gora Krasnaya (Red Mountain) by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition.

An area of submerged rocks about 1 km from Anchorage Island, Vestfold Hills. The rocks extend over an area of about 90 m by 55 m and have a least depth of 1 metre. Depths of 5 m or less extend for about 132 m eastwards. The shoal area was delineated and fixed by d'A.T. Gale, hydrographic surveyor with the ANARE Expedition on the MV Thala Dan led by D.F. Styles in 1961.

A low, ice-covered point on the coast of Wilhelm II Land about 46 km WSW of Cape Filchner. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump and named by USACAN after G.R. Krause of the US Navy Hydrographic Office, who served as a surveyor with USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).

A flat-topped mountain in the Miller Range, south-east of the Argosy Glacier and west of the Marsh Glacier. Plotted by the US Geological Survey from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named after L.W. Kreiling, traverse engineer at McMurdo Station in the winter of 1961, Ellsworth Land Traverse in 1961-62 and Roosevelt Island in 1962-63.

A bay in the western part of the Cook Ice Shelf, George V Land. Discovered and named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1957-58, in the Ob I. O.G. Krichak headed Aerological and Meteorological Divisions of the 2nd and 5th Soviet Antarctic Expeditions. Dr. Krichak and 7 other scientists perished in a fire in the building of the Aerological and Meteorological Division in Mirny Observatory on August 3 1960. Concerning the Bay named in memory of my father - According to "Russian and soviet geography names on maps of Antarctica" by L. I. Dubrovin and M. A. Preobrajenskaya, Leningrad, Hydrometeorology Press, Ed. P. K. Senko,1976. " .... Krichak Bay (68º 28 min S, 151º16 min E) located on the northern shore of Victoria Land (King George V Shore). Discovered and mapped by Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958. Later named in honor of perished in Antarctica soviet meteorologist Dr. Oscar Grigorjevich Krichak (1911-1960)". See also - Krichak Glacier (73º 02 min S, 68º 29 min E). Information supplied by Prof. Simon Krichak (Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 22 January 2006), son of Dr. Krichak.

Two islands and a number of rocks in the western part of Long Sound between Broka Island and Law Promontory. ANARE air photography has shown the feature to be more than one island.

A crescent-shaped moraine about 2 km east of Robinson Ridge in the Windmill Islands.

Charted by the SAE in 1956.