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A rock ridge on McLeod Massif in the eastern part of the Aramis Range in the Prince Charles Mountains, about 8 km west of Beaver Lake. Mapped from ANARE air photographs. The feature was the site of a tellurometer station during the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey in 1969. Named after J. Fox, technical officer (Survey), the leader of one of the survey parties in the Prince Charles Mountains.

This submarine bank north of Mackenzie Bay. It was located by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson on 27-28 December, 1929, and extended by further observations by BANZARE in February, 1931. It was also explored by a Norwegian expedition under Lars Christensen on 4 February, 1931, and named by him after the polar ship Fram.

The northernmost of the Hansen Mountains in Kemp Land. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Framfjellet (The Fram Mountain). Its position was fixed by an ANARE sledge party led by G. A. Knuckey in January, 1959.

A group of mountains which includes Mt. Henderson and the Masson, David and Casey Ranges. Discovered in February, 1931, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson who named the individual ranges and mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Framnes Fjella.

A low, snow-covered, rock feature about 7 km south of Mount McKenzie in the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1960. Named after R.J. Francey, cosmic ray physicist at Mawson in 1964.

A group of peaks and ridges about 11 km north-east of Simpson Peak, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after R.J Francis, physicist at Mawson in 1961.

An eroded volcanic rock showing sedimentary ash layers, situated between Rogers Head and Corinth Head on Heard Island. Named after the schooner Frank that was wrecked on Heard Island in 1859. Named after the schooner Frank which was wrecked on Heard Island in 1859.

A reef in the Mackellar Islands lying to the north and north-west of Cape Denison, on the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named the group of islands after C.D. Mackellar of London, a patron of the expedition.

A small rock about 2 km west of Cape Arkona on Heard Island. The Australian National Mapping Expedition, 1980 confirmed the position of the rock. Named after the Franklin, one of the sealing tenders of Messrs Perkins and Smith of New London, Connecticut, USA, who first exploited the seals on Heard Island in 1855.

A group of islands in the eastern part of Vincennes Bay, about 17 km WNW of Casey Station. The eastern island of the Group (Nelly Island) has several rookeries of giant petrels. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and first visited by an ANARE party led by Phillip Law on 21 January, 1956.

A glacier on the Wilkes Coast of Wilkes Land, about 41 km WSW of Cape Keltie. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and named by USACAN after J.D. Freeman, sailmaker on the sloop Vincennes of the United States Exploring Expedition (1938-42) under Wilkes.

An ice-covered point, just west of Freeman Glacier on Wilkes Coast. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after J.D. Freeman, sailmaker on the sloop Peacock, one of the ships of the US Exploring Expedition (1938-42) under Lieutenant (later Rear Admiral) C. Wilkes, USN.

A bay on the coast of Enderby Land, about 19 km west of Spooner Bay. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. First visited by the ANARE Expedition on the MV Thala Dan led by D.F. Styles in February 1961. Named after the Hon. Gordon Freeth, Australian Minister for the Interior, 1958-64.

A peak about 2330 metres high on the northern rim of Big Ben on Heard Island. The name was given by the 1948 ANARE Heard Island Expedition after Fremantle, Western Australia, an Australian port.

A glacier flowing into the head of Porpose Bay on the Banzare Coast of Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump and named by USACAN after J. Frost, boatswain on the brig Porpoise of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Wilkes.

A large lake about a kilometre north of Blundell Peak in the Larsemann Hills. Very steep ice cliffs border the lake's northern and western shores.

A very large, badly crevassed ice dome about 72 km south-east of Onley Hill, Mac.Robertson Land. The dome was the site of a tellurometer station established during an ANARE traverse from Mawson to Church Mountain, led by John Manning, surveyor at Mawson in 1967. The names describes the feelings of the party, which was considerably delayed there because of vehicle breakdown and forced to leave the survey incomplete until the following spring.

A ridge at the northern extremity of the Cobham Range. Discovered by the N.Z. Geological Expedition (1964-65), which so named it because although from below it looked a simple climb, great difficulty was experienced in traversing it.

An island off the north-eastern part of the Bunger Hills, Knox Coast. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).

One of the Haswell Islands, about 1.5 km south of Haswell Island. The Western Base Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14) plotted this island and another just north of it as one island and called it Fulmar Island because of the colony of Southern Fulmars on it. The Soviet Antarctic Expedition has shown that there are two islands and has applied the name Fulmar to the southernmost.