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A solitary nunatak, with a marked needle-shaped peak, lying in a north-south direction. This excellent landmark is about 180 km SSE of Mawson. Discovered by an ANARE party led by Robert G Dovers, Officer-in-charge and surveyor at Mawson, 1954, during a southern journey on 21 December, 1954, and so named by Dovers because a depot was established in the vicinity.

The basin is a near circular body of water tenuously connected to Long Fjord, in the Vestfold Hills. It is adjacent to Partizan Island. The connection between the basin and the fjord is approximately 40 m wide and is very shallow. The ice in the basin during winter is significantly above that of the fjord suggesting that no water exchange occurs between the two during winter. The basin is approximately 400 m in diameter. The maximum recorded depth is 13 m. The salinity of the water ranges from above seawater (circa 50gL-1) at the surface to approximately 120gL-1 at 13 m. Basin water is anoxic beneath 6 m. The basin has been stratified since at least 1991, when the first known sampling occurred and should thus be considered meromictic. The basin is therefore similar to Lake Burton and Bayly Basin in being permanently stratified while maintaining a seasonal connection to marine waters. The basin is named for Patrick Deprez who wintered at Davis in 1984 as a chemical limnologist. In this role he contributed significantly to the knowledge of the lakes of the Vestfold Hills.

A group of nunataks about 9 km south of Mount Blowaway in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after Yeoman First Class D L DeRemer, USN, administrative assistant with US Naval Support Force, Antarctica, 1967-70 who participated in US Deepfreeze operations.

A prominent peak at the southern side of Hatherton Glacier, about 6 km west of the northern extremity of Johnstone Ridge.

A steep gully between the Challenger Glacier and the adjoining cliffs on Heard Island. It is an important access gully on the foot route from Atlas Cove to Saddle Point. The gully starts near sea level and rises to an elevation of over 200 metres.

A steep glacier just east of Peckham Glacier, flowing southwards from the slopes of Mount McClintock to Byrd Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the U S Navy. Named by USACAN after A L DeVries, biologist at McMurdo Station in 1961-62 and 1963-64.

One of the Frazier Islands. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The position of the island was fixed by an ANARE party led by Phillip Law in January, 1956. Named by USACAN after G Dewart, a member of the 1957 Wilkes party.  

A distributary glacier of the Darwin Glacier, about 8 km long and 2 km wide which narrows to a snout which enters a valley opening out at Lake Wilson. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63). Named from nearby Diamond Hill.

A snow-free hill, diamond-shaped in plan, on the northern side of the lower reaches of the Darwin Glacier. Named by the Darwin Glacier Party of the TAE (1956-58) which carried out a ground survey in the area.

A glacier just east of Davis Bay, Wilkes Coast, Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after Jonas Dibble, ship's carpenter on the sloop Peacock of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Lieut. (later Rear Adm.) C Wilkes.

A colony of emperor penguins located on the fast ice at the western side of the Dibble Iceberg Tongue, and north of the Dibble Glacier, Wilkes Coast, Wilkes Land. It was discovered by BAS in a satellite image taken in October 2009. Note: emperor penguin colonies may not remain in one fixed location.

An iceberg tongue extending northwards for about 110 km from the disturbed continental ice just east of Davis Bay. The iceberg tongue extends seaward to the edge of the continental shelf. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Photographed by Phillip Law, who determined the nature and extent of this feature. Highjump photographs were interpreted by US cartographers as showing a glacier and a prominent glacier tongue, which were named by USACAN after Jonas Dibble, ship's carpenter on the sloop Peacock of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42).

A group of peaks in the Raggatt Mountains, Enderby Land, 4 km east of Mount Humble. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after W Dick, Weather Observer at Mawson in 1960.

An island of rock and ice about 0.9 km north of Curritick Island at the western end of Highjump Archipelago, north of the Bunger Hills. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).

Promontary north-east of the Clark Peninsula overlooking the Swain Group. Jack’s Donga (field hut) is located at Dieso Promontory.

A group of outcrops and nearby islands on the southern margin of Khmara Bay, Enderby Land. The name was the immediate response of the confused geologist faced with the problem of the very complex geology at this locality.

A tussock covered hill about 2 kilometres north-west of Cape Labuan, Heard Island. This was the site of a survey station established in March 1980 for Doppler satellite observations.

An ice dome, 431 m above sea level, in the northern part of the Sakellari Peninsula, Enderby Land. Discovered and photographed in 1956 during flights by ANARE aircraft from Mawson. Named after W R J Dingle, Officer-in- Charge and meteorologist at Davis in 1957.

An ice dome 30 km SSW of Point Williams on the Lars Christensen Coast. Discovered on 12 February, 1931, by Sir Douglas Mawson, BANZARE, who named it after the master of a Norwegian whaling ship who supplied the Discovery with some coal during the voyage.

A submarine bank on the Kerguelen Plateau 108 nautical miles north-west from Heard Island. The bank is about 200 metres deep. The position has been fixed by echo sounding and GPS and it has been mapped by various survey vessels including the Eltanin, Cape Pillar, Professor Mesyatsev and RSV Aurora Australis. The RRS Discovery did important bathymetric and oceanographic work in this vicinity on the first BANZARE voyage in 1929-30.