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A peak on the northern side of the Seaton Glacier in Kemp Land about 500 m above sea level.

A prominent feature, 2,560 m high, with a level razorback snow ridge at its highest part. The ridge is semi-circular in plan with a sheer, bare rock face about 500 m high on the inside and a steep snow slope on the outer (southern) face of the semi-circle. The area enclosed by the semi-circular ridge consists of rock debris and is largely snow-free. Named by the Darwin Glacier Party of TAE (1956-58) who sheltered there for five days.

A rocky island about 6 km long and 4 km wide, situated about 4 km north of Law Promontory in Kemp Land. First visited by an ANARE party led by Robert Dovers in 1954. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Havstein (Sea Stone) by Norwegian cartographers.

An irregular-shaped island between Mule Island and Mule Peninsula in the Vestfold Hills. Named after A.C. Hawker, radio supervisor at Davis in 1957.

A glacier on the Knox Coast of Wilkes Land about 19 km WNW of Underwood Glacier. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and named by USACAN after S.N. Hawkins, sailmaker on the sloop Vincennes of the United States Exploring Expedition (1938-42) under Wilkes.

Elevated rock outcrops at the northern end of the Mawson Escarpment, Mac.Robertson Land, between Rofe Glacier and Petkovic Glacier. Plotted from ANARE air photography taken in 1956, 1958, 1960 and 1973. Named after D.O. Hay, Assistant Secretary, Australian Department of External Affairs, 1957-61, First Assistant Secretary, Australian Department of External Affairs, 1965-66.

A glacier flowing northwards into Spooner Bay, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after J. Hayes, United States Observer on the ANARE Expedition on the MV Thala Dan, 1961, which made a landing nearby.

A neat, conical peak about 240 m above sea level, rising through the ice slopes south of Cape Bruce, Mac.Robertson Land.

A peak, about 520m metres high, west of Mt Olsen on the Laurens Peninsula, Heard Island.

Named for Alf Hayter, bosun, LST 3501 at Macquarie Island in 1948 who was rescued from the rock after his barge hit it and sank.

A glacier 17 km long flowing north-eastward to Mulock Glacier, just east of Henry Mesa. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after J.A. Heap, a member of the University of Michigan-Ross Ice Shelf Studies party, 1962-63, now with the Polar Regions Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London.

An island in the Southern Ocean within the Antarctic convergence. Captain John J. Heard of the American barque Oriental sighted the island on 25 November 1853. Evidence exists of earlier sightings, the first by the British sealer, Peter Kemp of the brig Magnet on 27 November 1833.

The largest island in the eastern part of the Thorfinn Islands, about 11 km north of Byrd Head, Mac.Robertson Land. These islands were probably seen by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson. The group of islands was plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Thorfinnoyane (The Thorfinn Islands). This island was first visited by I.R. McLeod ANARE geologist on 8 January, 1965.

A bay just south of Davis station in the Vestfold Hills. It is about 2 km long, 0.5 km wide at the entrance. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1937-57). First visited by an ANARE party led by Phillip Law from the Kista Dan on 11 January, 1957.

A linear valley in the Vestfold Hills about 800 m wide and 3 km long running north-east from Heidemann Bay to the south-east corner of Lake Dingle.

A glacier on the coast of Queen Mary Land, marked by a series of heavy, broken and crevassed icefalls. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after the wife of Sir Lucas Tooth of Sydney, a patron of the expedition.

The bay immediately north of the point defining the north end of Sellick Bay. This small but clearly defined bay is one of the least accessible parts, from both land and sea, of the entire coastline of Macquarie Island, and is rarely visited for this reason. It has been known among ANARE expeditioners by this name for many years, presumably because of the nightmarish approach necessary for anyone to visit it.

A small glacier between Sulzberger Bluff and Harbour Bluff on the Mawson Escarpment, Mac.Robertson Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Named after R. Helmore, technical officer with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1973.

A rock bluff on the west coast, just south of the Abbotsmith Glacier and named after MW Henderson, weather observer with ANARE, Heard Island in 1954.

An ice-covered island about 15 km long and about 252 m above sea level, south-eastof Masson Island, within the Shackleton Ice Shelf, off Queen Mary Land. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Prof. G.C. Henderson of Adelaide, a member of the AAE Advisory Committee.