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A distinctive rock buttress (c.900m) near the E end of Cranfield Icefalls, on the S side and near the terminus of Darwin Glacier.

A plateau, 2440 m above sea level, about 19 km long and 6 km wide, just north of Mount Longhurst. Named by two members of the Darwin Glacier Party of the TAE (1956-58) who spent Christmas Day 1957 on the plateau.

Isthmus linking Laurens Peninsula to mainland Heard Island

A rock outscrop on the coast, about 2 km east of Mawson Station.

A large glacier which is situated on the south coast between Lavett Bluff and Lambeth Bluff. This glacier was originally called "the 1951 Glacier" by an ANARE party which made a traverse of the island in 1951.

A peak about 6 km south of Big Brother Bluff in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named aftrer P R Fikkan, USARP geologist at McMurdo station in the summer of 1967-68.

A rocky island about 5 1/2 km long and 85m high. It is the largest island of the Rauer Group. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Filla.

A small nunatak about 7 km ESE of Dallice Peak in the Central Masson Range. Photographed in 1958 by ANARE aircraft but not plotted on a map. Sighted by an ANARE party led by J. Williams in December, 1962, whilst collecting geological specimens and lichens in the Framnes Mountains. Named after Rex Filson, carpenter at Mawson in 1962, a member of the party.

A creek flowing into Sandy Bay on the eastern coast of Macquarie Island.

About twelve ridges and spurs, mainly ice-free, extending over a distance of about 24 km east-west. The individual ridges are relatively short, mostly 2-4 km long and project northwards from the higher ice-covered surface to the south. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. The descriptive name was given by USACAN.

An island located at the northern end of Weddell Arm, Vestfold Hills.

The first gully south of the Isthmus flowing east into Buckles Bay.

A nunatak about 4 km south of Mt. Henderson in Mac.Robertson land. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Sørnuten (The South Peak). This feature was the site of a remote weather station established by ANARE in 1955. Renamed by ANARE after H J L Fischer, Cook at Mawson in 1958.

A small ice-free island some 5km north of the entrance to Amanda Bay.

An embayment between the eastern side of the Mertz Glacier and the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia in 1911.

A long, prominent, western tributary of the Lambert Glacier, flowing east from approximately 60 degrees E, past the northern side of Mt Menzies and joining the main stream of the Lambert Glacier just east of Mt Stinear. Discovered from an ANARE aircraft by K B Mather in October, 1957. Named after Dr NH Fisher, chief geologist, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Australian Department of National Development.

A crescent shaped island west of Broknes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Sigdxy by Norwegian cartographers.

A large rock exposure on the western side of the Lambert Glacier, about 95 km south of the Aramis Range in the Prince Charles Mountains. Discovered by an ANARE party led by B H Stinear in October, 1957. Named after M.M. Fisher, surveyor at Mawson in 1957.

A rock spur about 17 km SSW of Lee Nunatak in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after D F Fisher, USARP geophysicist at McMurdo station in the summer of 1967-68.

A group of four isolated nunataks about 7 km north of Mount Codrington in Enderby Land. Photographed from ANARE aircraft in 1956. First visited during an airborne reconnaissance of Enderby Land in November 1959. Named after Brigadier L Fitzgerald, OBE, RA Svy C (Trd), Director of Survey in the Australian Army, 1942-1960.