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An island just east of East Arm at Mawson, Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).

A long low, snow-covered rock ridge in the Goodspeed Nunataks in the southern Prince Charles Mountains. First sighted by an ANARE seismic traverse party in 1957. Photographed by ANARE in 1958 and 1960. Named after Alan E. Humphreys, (then) Senior Engineer with the Antarctic Division, Melbourne, and Officer-in-Charge of the Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1972.

The highest peak, 3,660 m high, in the major mountain range between the Nimrod and Starshot Glaciers. Discovered by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960-61). Named after Captain P.J. Hunt, RE, leader of the Southern Party.

A group of five nunataks, extending in a line 4 km long in north-south direction, just east of Mount Béchervaise in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs.

In his 1822 map Lieutenant William Langdon, Royal Navy, named the feature "Captain Hurds Point". This was published on the 1917 edition of the Admiralty Chart as Hurd Point and adopted by Mawson in 1943. Captain Thomas Hurd, RN, was Hydrographer to the Royal Navy, 1808-1823.

A rock outcrop, about 2,190 m above sea level, about 5 km long, about 12 km south-west of Mount Bewsher in the Prince Charles Mountains, Mac.Robertson Land. An area of moraine extends along the eastern side. First sighted from Mount Bewsher by an ANARE party led by W.G. Bewsher in January 1957. Plotted from ANARE air photographs, which show the feature to be larger than it appeared from Mount Bewsher and that it only has a domed appearance when viewed from there. Named Husky Dome to commemorate the dogs used by the party.

The hill adjacent to the station at Macquarie Island. Named by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-13 because it sheltered the Expedition hut from easterly winds.

A nunatak about 1.6 km east of Mount Thomas in the Prince Charles Mountains. Mapped from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1960. Named after C.R. Hutchison, surveyor with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1970.

A group of two large islands and four small rocky islands in the Rauer Group area, about 2 km south of Torckler Island.

A prominent, ice-free nunatak, 1,760 m high, just south of the main flow of the Skelton Icefalls. Plotted from aerial photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN because of its proximity to Skelton Icefalls.

A broad, mainly ice-covered ridge that rises to over 1600m between Yancey Glacier and Sennet Glacier in Britannia Range.

A bay about 3 kms long by 0.6 kms wide that separates the Charnockite Peninsula from the Geomorfologov Peninsula. It is about 14 kms east of Thomas Island. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

The largest of the Shaw Islands in Casey Bay, Enderby Land. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named by the Soviet Expedition after N. Ll'in, navigator with the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-21).

"Unusually high and steep-sided island in the north west Rauer Group, situated 3.5km to the north north west of Filla Island trig point. Named Impregnable Island as it was not possible to land on it on any of 3 occasions that it was flown to or over by ANARE during geological field surveys in 1983 and 1988."

Translated from Norwegian the name means “The inner part of Bølingen". Original spelling was Indre Bølingen with the modern spelling being the same. 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 coast of Princess Elizabeth Land. This coast was charted by a Norwegian expedition under Capt. Klarius Mikkelsen in February, 1935, when a landing was made in the Vestfold Hills. Named after the wife of Lars Christensen, Norwegian whaling magnate.

A lateral lake of the Darwin Glacier, with a nunatak forming an island, bounded on the west by Colosseum Ridge and on the south by Kennett Ridge. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63).

A large lake on the northern part of the plateau on Macquarie Island. So named by LR Blake, Surveyor, Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 because of the island in the lake.

An island in the William Scoresby Archipelago about 2 km north of Bertha Island.

A strait joining Alasheyev Bight and Vozrozhdenya Bay, between Myall Islands and Cape Gaudis on the coast of Enderby Land. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named Proliv Issledovateley (Investigators Strait) by the Soviet Expedition.