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An island 3.0 kms NNE of the northernmost point of Torckler Island in the Rauer Group. The highest point on the island is 27 m. Charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

A group of isolated nunataks about 95 km west of Mount Albert Markham. Discovered and named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960-61).

A beach of shingle and sand on the south coast of Heard Island. The name may be a descriptive one but Captain Thomas Long of the New London sealer Charles Carroll reported land south of Kerguelen in 1849. In the absence of evidence of his active connection with the exploration of the Island, it would seem unlikely that his name is used here.

A narrow marine inlet about 18km long, separating Long Peninsula from Broad Peninsula in the northern section of the Vestfold Hills. It extends from Zappert Point to the ice sheet (eastern side of Breid Basin).

A long thin small lake, slightly curved in shape and lying between Round Lake and Alga Lake at Cape Denison. The feature was named by Douglas Mawson during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 and appears on official maps of the expedition.

A narrow, sinuous, rocky peninsula about 19 km long, in the northern section of the Vestfold Hills. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Langneset (The Long Point) by Norwegian cartographers.

A rock and ice ridge extending from Big Ben, Heard Island to the east. This is a descriptive name given by the 1948 ANARE.

An elongated area of exposed rock lying about 2.5 km south-east of Cape Charcot on Melba Peninsula, Queen Mary Land. Named by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914. The name is descriptive.

A sound about 3 km wide in its narrowest part and about 20 km long, E-W, which separates Broka and Havstein Islands from Law Promontory in Kemp Land. First visited by an ANARE sledging party led by Robert Dovers in 1954.

A narrow, snow-covered extension of the Polar Plateau to the foot of Mount Longhurst. It is about 46 km long and 9 km wide. The plateau was used by the Darwin Glacier party of the TAE (1956-58) who named it from Mount Longhurst. It was originally called Longhurst Tongue.

A nunatak on the eastern side of Penney Bay in the Windmill Islands, about 2 km north-west of Campbell Nunatak. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE 1956 and 1965 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition 1956. Sighted by C.R. Eklund, scientific leader at Wilkes in 1957. Included in a triangulation by A. McLaren in 1965. Named after R.L. Long, Jnr., ionospheric physicist at Wilkes in 1957.  

A dome-shaped elevation in the northern Miller Range. It is probably the highest point, giving extensive views over the head of the Nimrod Glacier. Discovered by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-62) and used as a survey station.

A group of three small islands and associated rocks in the Rauer Group. From here periodic watch was kept on the ice fronting the Sørsdal Glacier in preparation for the July 1983 traverse from the Rauer Group to Davis by a field party from the Frozen Sea Expedition of the Oceanic Research Foundation. The successful crossing of the sea ice in front of the Sørsdal Glacier was only possible through repeated surveillance from the Lookout Islands.

A small lake about 1 km NNE of The Lookout, in the Vestfold Hills. First visited by ANARE parties from Davis in 1957.

The ship the "Lord Nelson" was wrecked here in 1830. The name appears on the 1891 sketch map prepared by Captain Fairchild of the New Zealand Government steamer 'Hinemoa'. The map was used in the preparation of the 1892 edtion of the Admriralty Chart.

A glacier flowing ENE between Anderson Pyramid and Sample Nunataks in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named after Lieut. O.B. Lovejoy, USN, pilot with USN Special Development Squadron VX-6 in Antarctica in 1962-63 and 1963-64.

A small, round island about 3.7 km north-west of Law Base in the Larsemann Hills.

The largest lake and the lowest at Cape Denison. It lies in a depression between the two ridges at the ends of which are Beryl Hill to the west and Petrel Hill to the east.

A tongue of rock about 12 m high projecting from the continental ice edge for about 165 m situated about 44 km west of Mawson. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Lagtangen (Low Tongue). First visited by ANARE western parties in 1954-55.

A glacier, mostly in the Ross Dependency, which flows south from a common nivi with the Prince of Wales Glacier (Ross Dependency), about 6.4 km east of Mount Gregory. Discovered by the N.Z. Geological Expedition (1964-65). Named after D. Lowe, a member of the expedition.