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An ice-capped island, with a dome about 327 m high, about 85 km north of the coast of Queen Mary Land. Discovered by A.A.E. (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Professor Erich von Drygalski, leader of the German Antarctic Expedition (1901-03) Drygalski in 1902.

A glacier on the Knox Coast of Wilkes Land, about 37 km west of Merritt Island. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after E.P. Du Beau, photo interpreter with USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).

The southern peak of Smith Peaks, in the David Range, Mac.Robertson Land, about 2 km south of Mount Hordern. This peak has been passed by ANARE field parties going south since 1957.

An area of relatively level exposed rock (c. 1100m) that forms the N part of Dusky Ridge in Britannia Range.

A mountain ridge about 11 km long extending north-south between the Byrd Glacier and the Hatherton Glacier. Named Dusky Mountains by the Darwin Glacier party of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956-58) because of the almost complete lack of snow on the eastern faces and associated dry valleys. The generic ridge is considered more appropriate than mountains.

A scattered group of low peaks and ridges covering an area of approximately 11 km by 6 km about 4 km south of Mount Banfield in the Hansen Mountains, Kemp Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after V. Dwyer, radio officer-in-charge at Mawson in 1964, a member of one of the survey parties which carried out a tellurometer traverse passing through the Hansen Mountains in 1965.

An island just north of Entrance Island, off the Mawson Coast. Plotted from ANARE air photographs.

This island features an abundance of dark cross-cutting layers (intrusive dykes) in several orientations.

Proposed by ANARE for the important caves which overlook Eagle Point.

Applied by the AAE 1911-14 surveyor Blake to the rocky point on the west coast of Macquarie Island which forms the southern headland of the feature named Eagle Bay on the 1891 map by Fairchild, 1899 map by Macdonald and the editions of the Admiralty chart based on them.

The glacier flowing from Big Ben on Heard Island to the sea between Melbourne Bluff and North Barrier. The glacier terminates in ice cliffs.

The eastern arm of the Horseshoe Harbour at Mawson. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) First visited on 5 February, 1954, by Phillip Law, leader of the ANARE Expedition which established Mawson station.

The eastern of the two larger islands at the northern end of the Flat Islands. Plotted from ANARE air photographs and ground survey.

A mountain about 2915 m above sea level, 2 km east of Mount Egerton. Mount Egerton was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-04) under Captain R.F. Scott, who named it after Admiral G. le C. Egerton, one of Scott's advisers for the expedition.

The easternmost and smallest of the lakes at Cape Denison, about 990 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 rock outcrop about 60 m above sea level, on the eastern side of Hoseason Glacier in Kemp Land.

An island in the Larsemann Hills which somewhat resembles the letter "H". Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Upsxy by Norwegian cartographers.

A channel between the islands off the Bunger Hills on the Knox Coast of Wilkes Land. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).