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A jagged ridge, 4.9 km long, that runs E from the S part of Bowling Green Plateau in Brown Hills, Cook Mountains.

Beach located on West Bay north of Mangoro Head, Heard Island

An extinct volcanic cone about 369 m high, on the western side of Posadowsky Bay on the coast of Wilhelm II Land. Discovered in February, 1902, by the German Antarctic Expedition (1901-03) under Prof. Erich von Drygalski who named it after his expedition ship Gauss, which was frozen in the pack ice about 80 km to the north until February, 1903.

A glacier in the E part of Britannia Range. It drains N from the saddle with Merrick Glacier to a juncture with Darwin Glacier between Cranfield Icefalls and Nebraska Peaks.

An ice piedmont and snow slope occupying the coastal platform between Darwin and Byrd Glaciers.

A solitary N-S ridge, 4.4 km long, located 5 km NW of Eilers Peak in the W part of Nebraska Peaks.

An island in the Bunger Hills. Charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956. Named after one of the characters from a novel of A. Gajdar, "Chuk i Gek".

A hill about 115 m high, about 2.6 km west of Law Base in the Larsemann Hills.

A bay just to the west of Casey Station on Bailey Peninsula, Windmill Islands. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956) and ANARE (1956, 1962 and 1963). Named after Geoffrey D.P. Smith, Senior Technical Officer (Buildings) with the Antarctic Division, Melbourne, who was a member of the team which planned and supervised the construction of Casey Station.  

A group of hills on the eastern side of the Thyer Glacier, Enderby Land. Plotted from photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after Geoffrey D.P. Smith, carpenter at Mawson in 1961.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

A range consisting of partly separated nunataks on the northern side of the head of the Nimrod Glacier opposite Miller Range. Discovered by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-62). Named to commemorate the work of geologists in Antarctic exploration.

The island lies 4 kms off the western coast of Fuller Island. It is an irregularly shaped island which measures about 2.2 kms by 0.4 kms and lies roughly midway between Vertoletnyy Peninsula and Fuller Island. It has steep hills rising at its northern and southern extremities and a gully which crosses the island. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

The peninsula occupies an area approximately 3 kms by 2 kms about 13 kms north-east of Fuller Island and 6 kms south of Miles Island. It is immediately south of the Charnockite Peninsula. The peninsula rises steeply out of the surrounding water and contains one large lake with an island in the centre and numerous smaller lakes. Cliffs form most of the southern perimeter and the highest point is located near its northern edge above Igrivaya Bay. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

A rock in the Mackellar Islands lying to the north and north-west of Cape Denison, on the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named the group of islands after C.D. Mackellar of London, a patron of the expedition.

That part of the Antarctic Continent between longitude 142 degrees E and longitude 155 degrees E. The coast of George V Land was explored and mapped by A A E. (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, as far as 153 degrees E. Named after H.M. King George V of England.

A group of three small islands in Edward VIII Gulf in Kemp Land. Two of the islands, joined by ice, were called Tvillingane (The Twins) by Norwegian cartographers who plotted them from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). The third island was called Tvillingstakken (The Twin Stack).

Prominent bluffs on the southern extremity of the Miller Range. The bluffs are marked by brilliant vertical bands of marble. Discovered on 26 December, 1957, and named by the Southern Suvey Party of the New Zealand component of the TAE (1956-58) after V. Gerard, I G Y scientist at Scott Base in 1957.

A large, prominent glacier about 22 km wide at its confluence with the Fisher Glacier, Mac.Robertson Land, which it feeds from the south-west. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956 and 1957. Named after H. Geysen, Officer-in-Charge at Mawson in 1960.