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A glacier tongue which branches off the Scott Glacier in Queen Mary Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47)

A gently-rising snow-covered feature, the main ridge of which runs north-east to south-west with exposed rock faces on the south-east slopes. It is about 24 km north-west of Rayner Peak in Kemp Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after Edward Nash, aircraft engineer with the ANARE Expedition on the MV Nella Dan led by Phillip Law in 1965.

A gulf in the coast of Kemp Land. Discovered by the William Scoresby Expedition (1936).

A group of islands in Amundsen Bay about 7 km west of Mount Oldfield, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after T. Edwards, assistant diesel mechanic at Wilkes in 1960.

A nunatak with two small outliers, about 13 km south-west of Mount Downie in the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after D.R. Edwards, radio technician at Mawson in 1969, who took part in the Prince Charles Mountains survey in 1969.

A large rock pillar on the western face of Mount Stinear, Prince Charles Mountains. The feature is in the vicinity of a geodetic survey station established by the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1971. Named after N.F. Edwards, a surveyor with the party.

A large island to the east of Winterover Bay in the Rauer Group.

A prominent peak (c.1480 m) located 4.7 km north of Rand Peak in central Nebraska Peaks.

A group of three small islands, 6 km north of the Stanton Group off Mac.Robertson Land. Probably first seen by BANZARE (1930-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson.

A lake on the northern side of Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, about 2 km north of Club Lake. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.

Valley trending north-northeast from southern uplands (at latitude 71° 30'' 20'' S and longitude 67° 35'' E ) where valley then turns sharply (about 90 degrees at latitude 71° 28'' 05" S and longitude 67° 41'' 10"E ) to trend east southeast to eastern boundary of Fisher Massif with the Lambert Glacier at latitude 71° 30'' 20" S and longitude 67° 35'' E. The valley provides an excellent route for travel about Fisher Massif.

Elcheikh Saddle is the low lying ice feature between Law Dome and the Antarctic plateau. The saddle runs from the Totten Glacier to the Vanderfold Glacier.

A mountain about 19 km south of Magga Peak in Oates Land. On 16 January 1840, Passed Midshipmen Eld and Reynolds on the Peacock, one of the ships of the USEE under Wilkes, reported hills in this direction. The hills were plotted on Wilkes' chart in about 67degrees S, 156 degrees E. It has not been possible to positively identify the feature named Eld Peak by Wilkes and the name has therefore been arbitrarily applied to this feature.

A steep sided lake to the immediate north of Lichen Lake in the Vestfold Hills.

An ice surface moraine some 5.1 km in length and 2.24 km in width lying on the East Antarctic ice sheet about 67 km north west of the Allan Hills in Victoria Land. A 1973 NASA Landsat image of Antarctica first detected what later proved to be an extensive snow-free blue ice area along the coastal margin and inland from the Transantarctic Mountains near the Prince Albert Mountains section. Elephant Moraine, a small part of this area, was later photographed by a USN VXE-6 flight in 1975. The name is descriptive in that when viewed in plan the feature has the appearance of an elephant's head with its trunk pointing north. The name has been established in scientific literature by geophysical researchers searching for meteorites and geologists describing the origin of rock clasts imbedded in the ice of this feature.

An approximately 4500 met re long submerged reef formed following the erosion of Elephant Spit, Heard Island.

A seven kilometre long sand and shingle spit extending to the east of Heard Island. It is low lying being seldom more than two metres above high water. It is wave washed and the sea breaks through on occasions. A large number of Elephant seals haul out in groups on both sides of the Spit.

Beach located on Sydney Cove, Laurens Peninsula, Heard Island

William Elliot, master of the ship 'Emerald', traded with Macquarie Island in 1821-2.