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Two nunataks about 30 km ESE of Mount Pascoe in Kemp Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. First visited by an ANARE party led by D.S. Trail on 22 February, 1965. Named after K.R. Miller, weather observer at Mawson in 1962.

A range of mountains, up to 3000 m above sea level, extending southwards from the Nimrod Glacier (Ross Dependency) for about 130 km. Named after J.H. Miller who, with Dr G.W. Marsh, discovered and mapped this feature while on a sledging journey as members of the TAE (1956-58).

A rock ridge on the northern side of the Athos Range in the Prince Charles Mountains, about 14.5 km north-west of Mount Jacklyn. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after L.D. Miller, radio operator at Mawson in 1964.

A small island about 3 km south-west of Cook Island.

Feature first named by Russia and adopted by Australia in 2011

A well marked glacier that flows into the valley between Tentacle Ridge and Gorgons' Head in the Cook Mountains, Eastern AAT. The glacier is tongue shaped with some crevassing but is mainly blue ice.

A mountain with a jagged and pinnacled outline, north of the Pomerantz Tableland and just west of Mount Gillmor in the USARP Mountains, Oates Land. So named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition because of its resemblance to Gothic Architecture.

A rocky nunatak about 19 km south-west of Vance Bluff. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

The base of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition on the coast of Queen Mary Land, just south of Haswell Island. The station was established early in 1956. Named after the sloop Mirny, one of the ships of the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-21).

A cirque forming a large embayment in Haskell Ridge in the Darwin Mountains. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63). It is the type locality for the Misthound Coal measures, a formation of the Beacon Sequence of the Darwin Mountains. So named because of the eerie bleakness and often mist-filled floor of the cirque, which contained many peculiarly shaped boulders resembling large dogs.

A group of moderately low, rocky hills, about 2 km south-west of the McKaskle Hills on the eastern margin of the Amery Ice Shelf. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).Named after G. Mistichelli, an aircrew member on Operation Highjump.

The central nunatak in a group of three nunataks in the northern part of the Manning Nunataks. The Manning Nunataks were photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and ANARE (1957). They were visited by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1965 and ANARE in 1969. Named after R. Mitchell, senior diesel mechanic at Mawson in 1969, who assisted the Amery Ice Shelf project to recover vehicles in January-February, 1969.

A rocky outcrop connected to the continental ice by ice and snow on the Budd Coast. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). USACAN called this feature Mitchell Island after Captain R.A. Mitchell, USN, captain of the USS Cacapon which participated in Operation Highjump.  

A low, snow-covered, rock ridge about 2 km west of Humphreys Ridge in the Goodspeed Nunataks in the southern Prince Charles Mountains. First sighted by an ANARE seismic traverse party in 1957. Photographed by ANARE in 1958 and 1960.

A small island, ~ 2.8 km E of Harbour Island, in the Bol'shie Skalistye Islands, located in southern Prydz Bay.

Rock outcrops about 5 km west of Tilman Ridge in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named after Dr Mixon, a U.S. Navy medical officer who treated an injured member of the expedition.

A small cluster of nunataks about 22 km south of Wilhoite Nunataks. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

A peak about 9 km west of Mount Bennett in Enderby Land. It has an elevation of 1,660 m. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Mjåkollen (The narrow Knoll) by Norwegian cartographers.

A point marking the eastern end of Currituck Island, off the Bunger Hills. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).

An island in the eastern part of Newcomb Bay, Windmill Islands. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946/47). Named after J.T. Molholm, assistant glaciologist at Wilkes in 1958.