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A hill, at Cape Denison, about 35 m high, to the west of the rocky ridge of which Azimuth Hill forms the northwestern end.

A well marked glacier flowing from the slopes of Mt Hughes in the Cook Mountains, Eastern AAT. It is a wide glacier with little debris, snow on blue ice near the top and extensive blue ice in the lower part.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

A steep glacier flowing south-westward to the Byrd Glacier at the western end of Horney Bluff. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

A small, rocky island on the Knox Coast, Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47); position fixed by USN Operation Windmill (1947-48). Named by USACAN after E.L. Merritt, a member of Operation Windmill.

A glacier occupying a deep depression, extending for 80 km inland from Buchanan Bay in George V Land and averaging over 32 km wide. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Dr Xavier Mertz, a member of the expedition who lost his life on the far-east sledge journey.

Captain Johann Meyer of the ship La Rochelle was one of several captains who in the years immediately following Heard's discovery (Captain John J Heard of the American barque Oriental sighted the island on 25 November 1853), sighted the islands and believed himself to be the first discoverer. Meyer sighted the islands on 10 January, 1857. The feature lies about 2 kilometres to the north west of McDonald Island and was named for Captain Meyer.

A descriptive name for the long beach south of Half-way Hill and north of Nuggets Point.

One of the Windmill Islands off the Budd Coast, about 4 km west of Mitchell Peninsula. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after Lieutenant E.W. Midgley, US Army Medical Corps observer with USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).  

Several tidal and submerged rocks amongst the islands off-lying Midgley Island, Windmill Islands. Discovered from small craft from Wilkes in 1961. Named from Midgley Island.  

An extensive, ice-covered plateau, about 2,100 m high, forming the central feature of the Darwin Mountains. It is the only area of snow accumulation in the Darwin Mountains. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63). So named because the feature was visited by expedition members at midnight on 27 December, 1962.

Island lying midway between Shcherbinina Island and eastern Mather Peninsula. Notable for preserving deformed dykes cutting gneisses.

An elevation in the surface of the West Ice Shelf rising to 238 m above sea level. Discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). This feature was called Ostrov Mikhaylova (Lednikovyy kupol) after N. Mikhaylov, artist on the sloop Vostok, one of the ships of the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-1821).

The highest peak (443m), of Scullin Monolith in Mac.Robertson Land.

A ridge in the Miller Range, extending north-south along the western side of the Ascent Glacier. Plotted by the US Geological Survey from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named after F.M. Milan, physiologist at Little America Station in the winter of 1957.

One of the Mariner Islands, off the Bunger Hills. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and named by USACAN. After R.A. Miles, air crewman on Operation Highjump photographic flights. NOTE: It has the name Tumannyj Island in the Russian Gazetteer.

A domed ice-island 48 km long and 30 km wide, about 38 km north of the Bunger Hills on Knox Coast. Discovered in February, 1936, by the William Scoresby Expedition. Named after Dr H.R. Mill, noted Antarctic historian.

A mountain about 12 km east of Mount Longhurst in the Britannia Range. Discovered by the Darwin Glacier party of the TAE (1957-58). Named after Dr H.R. Mill, noted Antarctic historian.

A prominent, isolated peak about 59 km south of Cape Simpson in Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered on 18 February 1931 by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Dr H.R. Mill.