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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.

A peak about 3.3 km north-west of Law Base and lying about 0.7 km north-east of Three Man Peak in the Larsemann Hills.

A gap on the northern side of Club Lake in the Vestfold Hills, conspicuous from the west.

An island 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.

An island in the northern part of the Larsemann Hills.

A snow-covered nunatak in the Goodspeed Nunataks in the southern Prince Charles Mountains, Mac.Robertson Land, about 4 km east of Skinner Nunataks. First sighted by an ANARE seismic traverse party in 1957. Photographed by ANARE in 1958 and 1960.

The sealers' name for a peak on Heard Island, recorded in the text of the Challenger Narrative and adopted in later editions of Admiralty Chart No. 802 in preference to Emperor William Peak which had apparently been proposed by the officers of the Arkona. The name is now applied to the whole massif and the prominent peaks are separately named.

A high granite bluff on the western side of the Daniels Range in Oates Land. This feature is visible from 95 km north and from many points across the Rennick Glacier (Ross Dependency). Named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1963-64) from the saying in George Orwell's novel 1984.

A group of nunataks just south of Pomerantz Tableland in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after J C Bigler, USARP biologist at McMurdo station in the summer of 1966-67.

Two small, light-coloured, rock outcrops, about 72 km north of Mount Scherger, in the southern Prince Charles Mountains. They are snow-covered almost to the top of their northern sides, with steep faces to the south. Plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1957. A base was established at one of the nunataks by an ANARE survey party led by H Geysen in 1960. Named after a fictional character in the novel "Ascent of Rumdoodle" by W E Bowman.

A partially ice-covered ridge about 13 km long, north-west of Mount Storegutt, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1956, 1957 and 1960. Named after G Bird, senior technician (electronics) at Mawson in 1961.

An island off the eastern side of Browning Peninsula, Windmill Island. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) ANARE (1956) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named after the Reverend H Birkenhauer, F.S J, seismologist at Wilkes in 1958.

An off-lying group of rocks about 30 km from the south end of Macquarie Island.

A prominent peninsula, the northern extremity of which is marked by Cape Darnley, on the eastern extremity of Mac.Robertson Land. Norwegian whalers explored this area in January and February, 1931, naming the cape at the end of this peninsula Bjerkxodden after Reidar Bjerkx of the whale catcher Bouvet II. Since Sir Douglas Mawson's reported sighting of Cape Darnley was on 26 December 1930, the name Cape Darnley is retained for the cape and the name Bjerkx applied to the peninsula.

A group of nine small nunataks about 20 km south-west of Mount Harding in the Grove Mountains, Princess Elizabeth Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs Named after I Black, geophysicist at Mawson in 1963.

One of a number of rocks in the sea near Heard Island, to the north of the Ealey Glacier. This name appeared on the 1932 edition of Admiralty Chart No. 802.

A prominent feature, 2,553 m above sea level, at the top of the southern arm of the Darwin Glacier. Discovered by the Darwin Glacier party of the TAE in December, 1957. Named by the Darwin Glacier party because of the sheer black cliffs of the nunatak, especially on the southern side.

A conspicuous rock outcrop on the eastern part of Law Promontory.