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A channel varying in width from 5 to 8 km which separates David Island from Melba Peninsula, Queen Mary Land.

The largest island of the Colbeck Archipelago, near the coast of Mac.Robertson Land, about 3 km north of Stump Mountain. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from our photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Teksla.

North Angle Lake is located at the western end of Mule Peninsula in the Vestfold Hills. It is close to South Angle Lake and is highly saline. It measures about 400 m by 150 m in size and is a number of metres below sea level. A large sandbar observable during summer from the air, crosses the centre of the lake. It should be considered meromictic.

A long ridge which forms the western edge of the Compton Glacier, Heard Island. The name was applied by the 1948 ANARE.

The Masson Range is divided into three parts of which this is the northern. The Masson Range was discovered and named by BANZARE (1929-31) led by Sir Douglas Mawson. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) who called this part of the range Nordkammen (The North Crest).

The northern of a pair of buttresses which flank the entrance to The Corridor on Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills.

A narrow rock ridge on the North West side of Big Ben extending to the Pageos Moraine.

A glacier descending from the ice-plateau of Queen Mary Land just south of Davis Peninsula. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Lord Northcliffe of London, a patron of the expedition.

A snow-covered rock feature in the Goodspeed Nunataks, southern Prince Charles Mountains, about 9 km ESE of Skinner Nunatak. First sighted by an ANARE seismic traverse party in 1957. Photographed by ANARE in 1958 and 1960. Named after I.R. Northcott, aircraft engineer with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey parties in 1971 and 1972.

A triangular shaped lake in the North Masson Range which is permanently frozen and about 1.8 ha in area. It is 400 metres north of Rumdoodle Lake and 800 metres NNW of Rumdoodle Peak.

A rock in the sea about 3.5 km west of Cave Bay, Heard Island. The name Norvigian Rock appears in a Supplement to the first (1930) Edition of the Antarctic Pilot. The second (1948) Edition omits the accent. The spelling 'Norwegian' was adopted on chart AUS 08 and approved.

A small island, less than 0.8 km across, about 9 km WSW of Mawson. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Nxstet (The Boathshed).

Feature first named by Russia and adopted by Australia in 2011. It is shown on Russian map Mill Island - scale 1:200,000 and SCAR map catalogue number 2830.

Named by Mawson in 1943 in association with 'The Nuggets'. The name 'The Nuggets' was on a sketch map prepared by Captain Fairchild of the New Zealand Government steamer 'Hinemoa' in 1891. Nuggets Creek enters the sea just south of Nuggets Point.

The name 'The Nuggets' was on a sketch map prepared by Captain Fairchild of the New Zealand Government steamer 'Hinemoa' in 1891. The point is so named for the rocks at its tip.

A small island, about 2 km ESE of Pinn Island, in the western part of Casey Bay, Enderby Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956. Named after the Australian native animal, the Numbat or banded anteater.

An island located off the western shoreline of Winston Lagoon, Heard Island

A group of peaks east of the Rayner Glacier and south of the Thyer Glacier in Enderby Land. Discovered by Squadron Leader Douglas Leckie, RAAF, in October, 1956, during a flight in an ANARE Beaver aircraft. Named after P.B. Nye, former Director of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, in the (then) Australian Department of National Development.