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A shoal area with depths of less than 11 m, extending for about 320 m in a north-south direction. There are depths of 3.4 m at the southern end. The shoal is about 3 km from the summit of Shirley Island, Windmill Islands. Discovered and charted during a hydrographic survey of Newcomb Bay and Approaches by d' A.T. Gale, hydrographic surveyor with the ANARE Expedition on the MV Thala Dan 1962, led by Phillip Law. Named from Molholm Island.  

A glacier flowing ENE into the northern part of the Hannan Ice Shelf, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after J.D. Molle, radio officer at Davis in 1960.

A submarine bank with depths less than 91 metres, about 3 km from the Welch Island triangulation point in a bearing 257 degrees. The bank is about 366 metres long in a NNE-SSW direction and about 137 metres wide, with a least depth of 31 metres. Charted in February 1961 by D'A T Gale, hydrographic surveyor with the ANARE expedition led by Don Styles.

A small pond approximately 50 m long on the eastern side of Marine Plain in the Vestfold Hills with numerous shell fossils outcropping on the western side.

A Russian scientific station in Enderby Land. The station was opened in 1963 and in 1971 was reorganised into a meteorological centre and the principal base of the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions.

A nunatak about 6 km west of Bartrum Plateau on the edge of the Marsh Glacier. Discovered by the NZ Geological Expedition (1964-65). Named after Lieut. Moody, USN, who flew the party in and out of the southern part of the area covered by the Expedition.

A peak with precipitous southern and eastern faces marking the northern limit of the Boomerang Range. Plotted from US Navy aerial photographs. Named by USACAN after J.L. Moody, Aviation boatswains mate, USN, in charge of loading and off-loading aircraft at McMurdo, 1959-60.

A small nunatak, about 1 km east of of Jaques Nunatak and about 5.6 km south of Mount Kennedy in Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1956 and 1959. The position of the feature was fixed by John Manning, surveyor at Mawson in 1967, during the Mawson-Church Mountain tellurometer traverse. Named after Patrick J. Moonie, radio operator at Mawson in 1967, who assisted in the traverse.

The centre island of the Rigel Skerries off Kemp Land.

A snow-covered mountain, resembling a pyramid, on the northern side of the Scylla Glacier in the Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs.

An oblong shaped bay on the northern side of Ellis Fjord in the Vestfold Hills, measuring about 700 m by 1 km.

A small hill about 1.5 km south-west of Mirny. Discovered by the Soviet Expedition (1956) and called Sopka Morrennaya.

A small mountain glacier in McIntyre Bluffs, on the Mawson Escarpment. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Named after Vin I. Morgan, (then) glaciologist with the Antarctic Division, Melbourne, and a member of the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey parties in 1973 and 1974.

A small island off the North Coast of Heard Island near the eastern part of the Downes Glacier. The name appears on Challenger's chart.

A group of three nunataks about 37 km west of Knuckey Peaks in Enderby Land.

A rock ridge extending east-west, just east of Mount Pollard and about 9 km west of Crohn Massif in the Porthos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. The eastern end of the ridge consists of two spurs which give the feature a Y shape in plan. Recorded on terrestrial photographs taken by S.L. Kirkby, surveyor at Mawson in 1956, and on aerial photography by ANARE in 1965.

A basin of about 2330 hectares in area in the northern part of the Ricker Hills, in the Prince Albert Mountains, Victoria Land. The southern portion of the basin is ice free but the northern portion is occupied by a large lobe of ice. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1956-62.

A glacier on the eastern side of Porpoise Bay on the Banzare Coast of Wilkes land, about 6 km SSW of Cape Morse. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump and named by USACAN after W.H. Morse, purser's mate on the brig Porpoise of the United States Exploring Expedition (1938-41) under Lieut. (later Rear Adm.) C. Wilkes.

An ice shelf extending along the Sabrina Coast and Banzare Coast of Wilkes Land between longitudes 117 degrees E and 123 degrees E. Discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958. Sighted by ANARE aircraft crew curing the 1962-63 operations along the eastern part of Sabrina Coast.

A depression or shallow gully on the southern slope of a hill in the Vestfold Hills.