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A circular lake about a kilometre west of Law Base in the Larsemann Hills.

The basin is a large area south of Oblong Lake in the Vestfold Hills. The surface is undulating and littered with erratics. There are numerous small lakes and ponds.

A group of nunataks about 57 km south of Rayner Peak in Kemp Land. Photographed in 1956 by ANARE aircraft. Surveyed in December, 1958, by G A Knuckey during a dog-sledge journey from Amundsen Bay to Mawson. So named because the mountains are frequently shrouded in cloud.

An ice-covered rock mass on the western side of the mouth of the Ninnis Glacier on the coast of George V Land. The feature is about 19 km long and 9 km wide, rising to about 335 m. Discovered in 1912 by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Sir Hugh Dixson of Sydney, a patron of the expedition.

A peninsula in the Bunger Hills

A small island in the Publications Ice Shelf, about 20 km south of the Sxstrene Islands. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936).Named after D M Dodd, weather observer-in-charge at Davis station in 1963.

Two small, dark rock exposures on the southern side of Single Island, on the western side of the Amery Ice Shelf. Discovered from an ANARE aircraft in 1969. Photographed from an ANARE aircraft in 1971. Named after Dr R Dodson, senior geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey in 1971.

A bay about 30 km long and 9 km wide on the western side of the Amery Ice Shelf, between Foley promontory and Landon Promontory. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956,. First visited in November, 1962, by an ANARE dog-sledge party, led by I Landon-Smith, which made a reconnaissance for a route from the plateau on to the Amery Ice Shelf. Named after the dog-sledge party.

A group of peaks about 28 km east of Knuckey Peaks. Photographed in October 1956, by ANARE aircraft. Surveyed in December, 1958, by GA Knuckey during a dog-sledge journey fromn Amundsen Bay to Mawson. Named after the members of the 1958 ANARE dog-sledge party who were always referred to at Mawson as the "Doggers".

A rock feature, consisting of two small peaks and a connecting ridge, between Mount Gleeson and Mount Gibson in the Prince Charles Mountains. Fixed by theodolite intersection from Mount Willing and Fisher Massif.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

A small submarine bank, covered with only 0.8 m of water near Molodezhnaya station in Enderby Land. The bank was discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, which called it Banka Domashnyaya (Domestic Bank).

The highest ice feature (4 000 m+) in Antarctica. It is located within the AAT near the western boundary with Dronning Maud Land, and overlies the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains. Mapped in detail by radio echo sounding by the Scott Polar Research Institute and formerly designated Dome "A". Named after Argus the ship that carried Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology. Note: In Dec 2016, the name was changed from Argus Dome to Dome Argus. Documentation shows the approved name was Dome Argus.

An ice dome within the Australian Antarctic Territory near the eastern boundary with Terre Adélie. It rises more than 3 200 m and overlies part of the Aurora Subglacial Basin. It was formerly designated Dome Circe.

A glacier about 19 km long flowing north-eastwards into the Starshot Glacier, along the northern side of the Swithinbank Range. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after Cdr. E.W. Donnally, USN Commanding Officer of Detachment Alpha and Officer-in-Charge of the McMurdo Station winter party in 1962.

A group of five small islands lying well offshore, about 11 km north-west of Casey Station in the eastern part of Vincennes Bay. The largest island has very large Adilie penguin rookeries and there are small rookeries on the others. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). An Expedition led by Phillip Law in the Kista Dan sailed close by on 20 January, 1956. Named after J Donovan, (then) Administrative Officer of the Antarctic Division, Melbourne, and leader of a number of relief expeditions to Heard Island and Macquarie Island.  

A long thin promontory on the north-east part of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills.

A group of islands, including Warriner Island and Redfearn Island, off Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Mulvikholmane (The Mule Bay Islets) by Norwegian cartographers. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), and Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.

A bay lying at the western junction of the Ninnis Glacier with the land, on the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson who named it after G.P. Doolette of Perth, a patron of the expedition.

A hill of rock and stabilised moraine with vegetation on the sides, about 68 metres high with visibility to Round Hill and Lambeth Bluff on Heard Island.