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A small bay about 7 km wide and 6 km long at the eastern end of Sabrina coast. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after Wilkes Henry, midshipman on the sloop Vincennes of the United States Exploring Expedition (1938-42) under Wilkes. First visited by the ANARE Expedition on the MV Magga Dan under Phillip Law in February, 1960.

A group of small islands lying at the western side of Henry Bay. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after Wilkes Henry, midshipman on the sloop Vincennes of the United States Exploring Expedition (1938-42) under Wilkes. Visited by ANARE on the MV Magga Dan in February, 1960.

A distinctive wedge-shaped mesa about 4 km across, about 7 km south of Mulock Glacier. The ice-covered summit, about 1,500 m above sea level, is flat except for a cirque, which indents the northern side. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after Capt. B.R. Henry, USCG, commander of USCGC Eastwind during USN Operation Deepfreeze 1964 and commander of the US ship group during USN Operation Deepfreeze 1965.

An island in the southern part of the Windmill Islands. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after Lieutenant C.C. Herring, USN, photographic officer with USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).  

A ridge about 7.4 km south of Hornblende Bluffs in Oates Lane. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after S.R. Heth, biologist at Hallett station in the summer of 1968-69.

The feature is a south-north trending short gorge in the Vestfold Hills 10 m wide and 10-30 m deep. It drains the north-west end of Hidden Valley into Crooked Lake. There is a small waterfall at the top end. The gorge is "hidden" behind an island in Crooked Lake.

A small circular,permanently frozen lake residing in a narrow basin on the northern tip of the Henderson Massif with an estimated area of 4.0 ha. Given the location of the lake and the way it is hidden on the northern tip of the Henderson Massif, the name is appropriate. The name was first used in the paper published by Adamson & Pickard (Perenially Frozen Lakes at Glacier/Rock Margins, East Antarctica. Antarctic Earth Science. pp 470-472. Australian Academy of Science. Canberra).

A valley draining south towards Nuggets Creek and lying parallel to the east coast, between North Mountain and Halfway Hill. This fault-defined valley can hardly be located on the 1971 map which is erroneous in several respects, but it is conspicuous on the 1991 Interim Image Map. Hidden Valley is invisible from the coast and is not commonly seen from the west because the main Overland Track lies the other side of North Mountain, hence its name which has been in common use by ANARE expeditioners for several years.

An elongated valley in the Vestfold Hills, 1.3 km long and 200 m wide trending SE to NW and draining an area of the northern side of the Sxrsdal Glacier. It flows into "Hidden Gorge" via a 900 bend to the north and thence to Crooked Lake. The floor has superb polygonal patterned ground.

The water passage between Ardery Island and Holl Island in the Windmill Islands. Named after Cmdr. J.A. Hiegel, USN, who supervised the construction of Wilkes Station in February, 1957.  

A small lake to the south-west of Low lake and due west of East Lake. At 40 m it is the highest lake at Cape Denison. The lake lies about 725 m ESE from Mawson's main hut.

A conspicuous nunatak lying about 2.3 km north-west of the Doublets on David Island, off Queen Mary Land. Named by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914. The name is descriptive.

A group of rocky islands and rocks about 95 km long and 9 to 28 km wide, extending in a north-east direction off the Bunger Hills, Knox Coast, Wilkes Lane.

A long narrow freshwater lake in the Vestfold Hills (measuring 1.25 km x 250 m wide at its widest point), which serves when frozen as a quick, direct route for travel as a "highway" between Long Fjord and Taynaya Bay. It overflows into Taynaya Bay. The water in the lake is slightly salty.

The easternmost of a pair of islands lying about 0.6 km west of the north-west tip of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. The centre of this island lies about 0.4 km to the north-east of the centre of Richardson Island.

A small, dark, rock outcrop at the north-western end of Mount Seddon in the southern Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted for air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after V.J. Hill, radio officer at Mawson in 1960.

A tributary glacier of the Hatherton Glacier, which flows northward between Forbes Ridge and Dusky Ridge. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after C.C. Hinton, Jnr., who wintered at McMurdo Station in 1963 and headed a team charged with the upkeep of mechanical equipment at the outlying US stations.

A small, steep, rocky island about 1 km long and about 75 m high, rising above the Shackleton Ice Shelf, about 3 km north of Delay Point, Queen Mary Land. Discovered and named by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). So named because it is shaped like a hippopotamus.

A group of islands about 19 km north-east of William Scoresby Bay, Kemp Land. The largest island of this group was discovered on 18 February 1931 by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson who thought it to be a cape and called it Cape Hobbs. Later exploration by the William Scoresby Expedition (1936) and the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) showed it to be an island.

Three small islanda about 0.8 km east of Gardner Island, off the Vestfold Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Plotted from ANARE vertical air photographs.