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A steep rock buttress on the north side of Big Ben, Heard Island. It runs generally north-west from Davis Dome towards Atlas Cove. Named after L.F. Gibbney, Biologist, 1950 ANARE Heard Island Expedition, and Officer-in-Charge, 1952 ANARE Heard Island Expedition.

A small island 4 km north of the Forbes Glacier. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Bryggeholmen (The Wharf Islet).

A rock bluff on the Mawson Escarpment, Mac.Robertson Land between Arriens Glacier and England Glacier. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Named after W.J. Gibbs, (then) Director of Meteorology, Department of Science, Melbourne.

A reef about 2 km north-west of Wilkes on the Budd Coast. Discovered by the U S Navy Antarctic Expedition (1956-57). Named by USACAN after seaman J. Gibney, U S N, a member of a party from USS Glacier which made a survey of Newcomb Bay in February, 1957.  

A peak just west of Mount Béchervaise in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs.

A group of islands in the southern part of Khmara Bay, Enderby Land. Photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition and ANARE in 1957. Named Ostrova Gidrografov (Hydrographer Islands) by the Soviet Expedition.

An island at the north-west corner of the Rookery Islands off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

A series of sharp rock peaks, south of Mount Olsen on the Laurens Peninsula, and named after Dr AR Gilchrist, medical officer with ANARE, Heard Island in 1948 and 1963.

A beach of sand, shingle and rock on the north coast west of Compton Glacier, Heard Island. The feature is named after Dr Alan R. Gilchrist, medical officer, 1948 ANARE Expedition to Heard Island. The name was proposed by the 1948 ANARE.

An ice shelf on the coast of Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after Cmdr. C.R. Gillett, USCG, who served on the icebreaker Burton Island from December 1966 until June 1968, and as Ships Operations Officer on the staff of the Naval Support Force, Antarctica, from June 1968 until May 1970.

Three small rocky islands protruding through the Shackleton Ice Shelf, about 7 km north of Cape Moyes. Queen Mary Land. Discovered by the Western Base Party of A A E (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after F. Gillies, a member of the expedition.

An ice-covered island about 28 km long and 4-6 km wide, with numerous outcrops exposed along its flanks, extending NNW-SSE, on the eastern side of the Amery Ice Shelf. Delineated from air photographs taken by U S N Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after Lieut. R.A. Gillock, U S N, navigator on USN Operation Highjump flights in the vicinity.

An island 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.

Translated from Norwegian the name means "The small valley island". gjot = small valley, hollow, depression. Original spelling was Gjotöy with the modern spelling being Gjotøy. Feature first mapped by the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936-37 with the name shown on Hansen Chart - Atlas of Parts of the Antarctic Coastal Lands / Ingrid Christensen Coast / Sheet 10 published in 1946. Scar map catalogue map number 12811. Name adopted by Australia in 2011.

The southernmost of the Donovan Islands, off the Budd Coast. The area was photographed by U S N Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named by USACAN after R. Glascal, auroral scientist at Wilkes in 1957.  

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

Glavnyj Island lies within Lake Figurnoe in the Bunger Hills. There are two small spits on the south-western side. The island has steep slopes up from the shore on all sides and cliffs on the south-eastern shore. The island was charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

Glider Lake is a triangular shaped saline lake approximately 500 m by 150 m in area on the southern shore of Taynaya Bay in the Vestfold Hills. The lake surface is marginally beneath sea level, and the maximum recorded depth is 9 m. It is probable that the lake is permanently stratified and therefore meromictic.The lake has been named as its shape looks something like a hang glider.

A steep-sided, narrow gully about 900 m long on the eastern side of Bainmedart Cove, Radok Lake, in the Prince Charles Mountains. A three-man party from the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey camped near the mouth of the gully for a month in January-February 1969. So named because of the fossil plant found in the top part of the gully.

A conical peak about 1.7 km north-west from Blundell Peak in the Larsemann Hills. It rises steeply from its western coastal shoreline.