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A prominent mountain, 2600 m above sea level, south of the Mulock Glacier nivi, into which it falls away steeply. Discovered by the Darwin Glacier party of the TAE and first climbed in December, 1957, when a survey station was established at its highest point. Named after H.H. Ayres, one of the two men comprising the Darwin Glacier party.

An isolated peak, about 13 km SSE of Mount Starlight in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. The feature presents a snow-covered face to the north. Recorded on terrestrial photographs taken by R.H. Lacey, surveyor at Mawson in 1955 and aerial photography by ANARE in 1959 and 1965.Named after F.C.R. Bakker, radio supervisor at Davis in 1964.

The highest peak in the Hansen Mountains, Kemp Land. The mountain was included in a triangulation carried out by G.A. Knuckey, surveyor at Mawson in 1958. Named after Flight Lieutenant G.A. Banfield, R.A.A.F. pilot at Mawson in 1959.

A striking, rock peak about 1252 m above sea level on the western side of the Denman Glacier in Queen Mary Land. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Robert Barr Smith of Adelaide, a patron of the expedition.

One of the Tula Mountains, Enderby Land, about 5 km south-east of Mount Storer. Plotted from aerial photographs taken by ANARE in 1956 and 1957. Named after A J Bartlett, a member of the crew of the Discovery during BANZARE (1929-31).

A fairly low, rock outcrop elongated east-west about 17 km east of Mount Menzies in Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered from an ANARE aircraft during 1957, also seen in that year from the ground by the southern seismic party led by K B Mather. Named after E P Bayliss, the cartographer who drew the map of Antarctica published in 1939 by the (then) Property and Survey Branch, Department of Interior, Canberra.

A great massif of brown rock in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains, rising sheer from the plateau ice on the northern face, with steep slopes on the other sides. It is bare, except for an ice cap on the flat summit area. It is 2362 m above sea level. First visited in November, 1955, by an ANARE party led by John M Béchervaise, Officer-in-Charge Mawson in 1955, after whom it was named.

A partly snow-covered mountain, about 4 km SW of Taylor Platform in the Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956 and 1960. Named after J W Beck, assistant cook at Mawson in 1964 and storeman at Wilkes in 1966.

A dark, steep-sided peak about 1,970 m above sea level, about 20 km SSE of Armstrong Peak, Napier Mountains, Enderby Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition and called Stor Hanakken by Norwegian cartographers. Photographed from ANARE aircraft in 1956. First visited in 1960 by an ANARE party led by S L Kirkby.

The larger of two partly snow-covered mountains in the western extension of the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains, about 20 km south-west of Mount Starlight. Recorded on terrestrial photographs taken by R H Lacey, surveyor at Mawson in 1955, and aerial photography by ANARE in 1959 and 1965. Named after P A Bensley, carpenter at Mawson in 1965.

One of the Raggatt Mountains, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after R D Bergin, radio officer at Mawson in 1961.

A mountain about 2 km east of Budd Peak, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1957. Named after M G Berrigan, assistant diesel mechanic at Wilkes in 1961.

One of the Tula Mountains, Enderby Land, about 6 km east of Mount Hampson. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1956. Named after F. Best, a member of the crew of the Discovery during BANZARE (1929-31).

A prominent, flat-topped mountain on the western end of the Aramis Range in the Prince Charles Mountains. It has a spur running north and a large moraine running north-east. The mountain is 1973 m high and 200 m above the plateau on the west; to the east there is a snow scarp and drop of 55 m.First visited by the ANARE southern party, 1956-57, led by W.G. Bewsher, Officer-in-Charge at Mawson in 1956, after whom the feature was named.

An outcrop about 19 km SSW of Mount Rubin in the southern Princes Charles Mountains. It is about 9.5 km long and 2.5-4.0 km wide and has two peaks. It is oriented in a SSW-NNE direction. Plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after I G Bird, electronics engineer at Mawson in 1960.

A distinctive, black, rock peak on the coast of Enderby Land. Seen from the Discovery by BANZARE (1929-31) and named by Sir Douglas Mawson after John Biscoe, who is thought to have discovered the feature on 13 March, 1931, and called it Cape Ann. Mawson applied the name Cape Ann to a point on the coast nearby. Its position was fixed by ANARE survey party in 1957.

A mountain just south of Mt Elder on the north-east coast of Macquarie Island.

A mountain just east of Davis Bay on Macquarie Island.

A low, domed, boulder-covered, dark rock outcrop, about 7 km west of Mount Rymill in the southern Princes Charles Mountains. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after Flying Officer E Bloomfield, RAAF, navigator with the Antarctic Flight at Mawson in 1960.

A gneissic mountain between the Matusevich and Tomilin Glaciers in Oates Land. So named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1963-64) because three members of the party were forced to abandon their proposed survey and gravity station by a blizzard and after examining the geology sledged several kilometres back to their camp in thick drifting snow.