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A rock bluff on the south coast of Heard Island just west of Fiftyone Glacier.

An ice dome on the Budd Coast of Wilkes Land, centred about 125 km ESE of Casey Station. The dome is 1395 m high (per 1:1M map sheet SQ49-50). The presence and nature of the dome have been revealed as the result of intensive glaciological and geophysical survey by ANARE parties since 1962.

The automatic weather station was established in April 1986. It is located at an elevation of 1395m (per 1:1M map sheet SQ49-50).

A glacier, largely in the Ross Dependency in the southern portion of the Queen Elizabeth Range, draining from the Polar Plateau to the Bowden Névé.

A group of islands lying off the eastern side of Law Promontory. So named because of their proximity to Law Promontory. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). First visited by ANARE party led by Peter W. Crohn in 1956.

A shingle beach at the site of the first landing on Macey Peninsula, Rauer Group by Dr PG Law from the Kista Dan on 11 January 1957. The group was searching for a site for a new station.

A high ice plateau extending eastwards from the Mawson Escarpment. Delineated from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after Phillip G. Law, (then) Director of the Australian Antarctic Division of the (then) Department of External Affairs.

A promontory about 28 km across, situated just west and north-west of Stefansson Bay. This feature appears to have been first mapped with an accuracy by William Scoresby in February 1936. It was photographed from the air by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and subsequently plotted on the Hansen Atlas Sheet 5 as Breidhovde. First visited by an ANARE party led by Peter W. Crohn in May, 1956. Named after Phillip Law who flew over and photographed this feature in February 1954.

A group of rock hills on the eastern side of the Lambert Glacier, 9 km north of the Mawson Escarpment. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973.

A line of sharply pointed peaks in the southern part of Mount Rivett, Mac.Robertson Land. One of the peaks was used as an astronomical station by D. Carstens, surveyor at Mawson in 1962. Another peak was used as a tellurometer station by John Manning, surveyor at Mawson in 1967. Named after E.J. Lawson, diesel mechanic at Mawson in 1967, who assisted Manning with the survey work. Location for the feature is at southern end of the aigulles - same as survey station NMS40.

A small, tooth-like nunatak, about 5 km south-east of Branson Nunatak in the Masson Range, Mac.Robertson Land. Fixed by intersection from trigonometrical stations by John Manning, surveyor at Mawson in February, 1968.

A group of nunataks about 7.4 km south-west of Keim Peak in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after G.J. Lawson, USARP biologist at McMurdo station in the summer of 1967-68.

A chain of mountains extending southwards for about 57 km from Magga Peak, Oates Land, on the western side of the Matusevich Glacier. Photographed from the air by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The Third Soviet Maritime Antarctic Expedition (1957-58) and ANARE (1959). Named after M.P. Lazarev, commander of the sloop Mirny of the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-21).

A rock ridge about 8 km ESE of Mount Béchervaise in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. The feature was intersected in November 1966 by an ANARE survey party led by J. Quinert and climbed by the party on 7 December, 1966. A rock cairn was erected on the highest point. Leah was a code name used at Mawson to identify the survey party.

A saline lake in the southern part of the Vestfold Hills. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.Named Ozero Lebed'' (Swan Lake) by the Soviet Expedition.

A range situated about 38 km SSE of Edward VIII Gulf in Kemp Land which includes the peaks shown on the Norwegian Whalers Chart, Sheet 3 as Polhesten and Poloksen. Named after Squadron Leader Douglas W. Leckie, RAAF, who commanded the Antarctic Flight at Mawson in 1956, and who piloted the Auster Aircraft from which Phillip Law sighted and plotted the range in 1954.

A bay just west of McDonald Bay on the coast of Queen Mary Land. Plotted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956) and called Bukhta Lednikovaya (Icy Bay).

An island just north of Entrance Island, off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Visited by ANARE parties from nearby Mawson on many occasions.

A nunatak about 4 km south of Mount Gardner in the Porthos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after E. Lee, weather observer at Davis in 1963 and weather observer-in-charge at Mawson in 1969.

The sea passage between the continental ice coast, west of Mirny and a group of small islands about 1 km offshore. Plotted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956) and called Prokhod Lena after the expedition ship Lena.