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A glacier flowing west into Amundsen Bay between Ragged Peaks and Mt Gleadell. First visited by an ANARE party, led by P W Crohn, on 28 October, 1956, and named to commemorate the great assistance obtained from the Beaver aircraft on coastal operations.

An island about 7 km long and 4 km wide, rising to 567 m above sea level, on the southern flank of Beaver Glacier in Amundsen Bay. Discovered by an ANARE party led by Peter W Crohn who visited it in October, 1956. So named because of its proximity to Beaver Glacier.

An area of smooth ice, approximately 7 km by 22 km, at the southern end of a region of rough ice (a stagnant glacier) between two arms of a horseshoe shaped rock exposure. Situated just east of the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Discovered by ANARE personnel in 1956.

Buttress on north-eastern flank of Big Ben running downhill south-west to north-east approximately 1330m.

The largest, central island of the Flat Islands, about 2 km WNW of Mawson. This island is one of several plotted as one island by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37), and called Flatxy (Flat Island).

A prominent hill in a somewhat featureless area in the southern part of Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills.

The subglacial highlands within the Australian Antarctic Territory near the eastern boundary with Terre Adilie and south-east of Dome Circe. It runs north-south and separates the Wilkes Subglacial Basin form the Peacock Subglacial Trench and Adventure Subglacial Trench. Discovered and mapped by radio echo sounding by the Scott Polar Research Institute. Named after the Belgica the ship of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-99 under Lieutenant AVJ de Gerlache de Gomery, later Baron de Gerlache de Gomery.

A small bay just west of Law Promontory, Kemp Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37), and called Indrefjord (Inner Fjord). Renamed after Sgt S Bell, RAAF, wireless fitter at Mawson in 1959.

A glacier flowing into the Voyeykov Ice Shelf on the Banzare Coat of Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and called Bell Glacier by USACAN after Thomas G Bell, boatswain on the sloop Peacock of the United States Exploring Expedition (1938-42) under Wilkes.

A peninsula in the Bunger Hills. Discovered and charted in 1957 by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition.

A rock and ice escarpment curving in a generally south-westerly direction from Mount Canham. It is situated about 13 km SSW of Crohn Massif in the Porthos Range, Princes Charles Mountains. Recorded on terrestrial photography taken by S L Kirkby, surveyor at Mawson in 1956, and on aerial photography by ANARE in 1965. Named after J M Bennett, physicist at Mawson in 1965.

A distinctive triangular rock bluff (c.1300 m) at the northwest side of Ragotzkie Icefall in Britannia Range.

A distinctive rock knob, 1,540 m., at the southern extremity of Ricker Hills in the Prince Albert Mountains., Victoria Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1956-62. Named by US-ACAN for Anthony J. Benson, hospital corpsman with the South Pole Station winter party, 1966.

A mountain and two ridges, in Oates Land about 44 km south of Cape Buromskiy. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Third Soviet Maritime Antarctic Expedition in 1958 and ANARE in 1959. The feature was visited by an airborne survey party from the Soviet expedition and called Gory L'va Berga after the Soviet Geographer, Academician L. Berg.

An island in the Swain Group. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). A survey of the islands north of Wilkes was carried out by C R Eklund in 1957. Named after R J Berkley, a member of the 1957 Wilkes party.  

Translated from Norwegian the name means "The naked point islet". berr = naked and holme = islet. Original spelling was Berrnesholmen with the modern spelling being the same. Feature first mapped by the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936-37 with the name shown on Hansen Chart - Atlas of Parts of the Antarctic Coastal Lands / Ingrid Christensen Coast / Sheet 10 published in 1946. Scar map catalogue map number 12811. Name adopted by Australia in 2011.

A large, mostly ice-covered mountain with abrupt north facing rock cliffs. It rises to 3,144m between Mount Olympus and Mount McClintock and the main ridge of Britannia Range.

A beach of volcanic sand and shingle located on South West Bay between Erratic Point and the western extremity of Vahsel Glacier

An island at the eastern side of the entrance to William Scoresby Bay.

A hill about 30 m high to the east of Alga Lake at the northern end of a broad ridge at Cape Denison. The hill is about 530 m ESE from Mawson''s main hut. The feature was named by Douglas Mawson during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 and appears on official maps of the expedition.