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A rock outcrop on the coast of Mac.Robertson Land, about 9 km east of Scullin Monolith; about 340 m above sea level. Land was sighted in this vicinity by BANZARE (1929-31) in January, 1930. During the second voyage of BANZARE on 13 February, 1931, a flag and proclamation were thrown ashore just before a landing was made at the nearby Scullin Monolith. Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Sir George Murray, Chief Justice of South Australia and Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, a patron of the expedition.

Two islands off the coast of Enderby Land, about 1.5 km west of the Thala Hills. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956. Myall is the vernacular name for species of Acacia found in Australia.

A bathymetric deep slightly elongated in a NE-SW direction but with irregular boundaries which are poorly defined. The Nanok Deep is below 500 m and extends under the Amery Ice Shelf.

A group of peaks extending south-eastfrom Mount Codrington in Enderby Land, the highest being about 2300 m. Discovered in January, 1930, by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after the Hon. Sir John Mellis Napier, a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia, 1924-42, Chief Justice of South Australia, 1942-67. First visited by an ANARE party in 1960.

A lake on the N side of Broad Peninsula in the Vestfold Hills E of Ekho Lake.

A glacial ice stream about one kilometre wide flowing northerly towards Corinthian Bay, Heard Island. It is bounded by rock ridges on either side.

A small nunatak about 16 km ENE of Crosby Nunataks in Enderby Land.

A scattered group of peaks and nunataks which lie E of Gaussiran Glacier and Merrick Glacier in the E part of Britannia Range.

"Named in recognition of its thin, elongated shape. It is an east north east trending island parallel to the south coast of Efremova Island and separated from Efremova Island by a 300m wide channel that is often blocked by small bergs and ice rafts."

A narrow rock ridge about 6 km south-west of Scullin Monolith in Mac.Robertson Land. The feature was mapped by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson in 1931. It was also mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). The position of the feature was accurately fixed by John Manning, surveyor at Mawson in 1967 during a tellurometer controlled mapping survey. Mawson named the feature after a close friend of Sir MacPherson Robertson who has been instrumental in securing Mac.Robertson's contribution to Banzare funds.

A fjord, near Law Base in the Larsemann Hills, which separates Lied Promontory and Fletcher Promontory. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37.

An irregular raised undersea feature shallower than 500 m in depth, extending from under the Amery Ice Shelf and surrounding the Nanok Deep on its north-east and passing under the Amery Ice Shelf again.

A shoal sounding 4.5 m and situated 0.5 km from the eastern extremity of the largest of the Sawert Rocks, off the Mawson Coast of Mac.Robertson Land. The rock was struck by M.V. Nella Dan on 4 March 1969 on passage from Mawson to Melbourne.

The largest of the Frazier Islands, in Vincennes Bay. The southern edge of the island is a steep cliff rising sheer from the water to a high pointed peak 90 m high. The northern half of the island is a long ridge about 30 m high. First visited by an ANARE party on 21 January, 1956. Astrofix obtained by S. Kirkby, surveyor with Mawson 1956 party. Named because the island has several rookeries of Giant Petrels or Nellies.  

A solitary, dark rock, partly ice-covered, about 24 km NNW of Mawson. The rock was plotted by Robert G. Dovers, officer-in-charge at Mawson in 1954. It was fixed by triangulation carried out by D.R. Carstens, surveyer at Mawson in 1962.

A small glacier flowing through the centre of the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Discovered in January, 1957, by the ANARE southern party led by William G. Bewsher. Named after Homer''s Nemesis.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

A peak, 1203 m, at the N end of Goorkha Craters, Cook Mountains.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

Named after the remote planet because of the remoteness of this island from the rest of the Rauer Group and the difficulties encountered in visiting it.