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A small rocky island off the coast of Kemp Land, about 4.5 km north-west of Cape Boothby. The island was visited in February, 1975, by men from the ANARE expedition ship MV Nella Dan and an astrofix position obtained. Named after the Master of the MV Nella Dan on many occasions, Captain John Brench Jensen.

A small island in the Larsemann Hills south of McLeod Island, with a conical peak and a beach running E-W along its northern shore.

An elongated, steep-sided, almost flat-topped arm of rock with some ice, separating the Beaver Lake area from the Amery Ice Shelf in Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered by ANARE aircraft in 1956. Landings were made on Beaver Lake in 1957, 1958 and 1959. A survey station was occupied on the northern part of the feature in February, 1969, by the Prince Charles Mountains Survey Party. So named because of its resemblance to a jetty.

A group of islands about 3 km NNE of Mawson in Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Meholmane (The Middle Islets). During summer the islands have a number of Adélie penguin rookeries on them.

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.

The easternmost point of land on the rocky cape on which the base was built at Cape Denison.

An isolated nunatak about 6 km east of the southern end of Linton-Smith Nunataks on the eastern side of the Amery Ice Shelf. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after F.R. Johnson, radio officer at Mawson in 1968 and 1970, who took part in the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey in 1971.

A mountain with a spire-like summit (1570m) between Cranfield Icefalls and Gaussiran Glacier in NE Britannia Range.

A fjord on the western side of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. It has steep, almost vertical walls.

A sharp peak about 22 km south-west of Simmers Peak in Enderby Land. Discovered in January, 1930, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who called it Harvey Johnston Peak after Prof. T. Harvey Johnston, Chief Biologist to BANZARE.

Named for Dr. Gavin W Johnstone, Biologist and leader of the ANARE scientific contingent of the Aust. National Mapping Expedition, 1980 who carried out an extensive wild life survey of the McDonald Islands in March 1980. The south-westerly point of McDonald Island. The feature terminates a high ridge running westwards from Maxwell Hill, the high point of the Island. NOTE: The feature changed in shape after the 2003 eruption, however,the name has been retained.

A lake in the Vestfold Hills about 4.5 km WNW from Platcha. The lake is basically oval in shape, and is some 500 m long by 200 m across. It is surrounded by a well developed marine terrace. The lake's water is hypersaline.

A ridge about 13 km long, extending northwards from Mount Olympus towards the southern side of Hatherton Glacier on the western side of Lieske Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after G.W. Johnstone, a New Zealand auroral scientist at Byrd Station during the winter of 1962, who also served as warehouseman at McMurdo Station during the winter of 1964.

An ice escarpment about 19 km NNW of Mount Starlight in the Prince Charles Mountains. Recorded on terrestrial photographs taken by R.H. Lacey, surveyor at Mawson in 1955, and on ANARE aerial photography taken in 1965. Named after W.K. Jones, geophysicist at Wilkes in 1960.

A nunatak about 28 km south of Parkinson Peak in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after F.E. Jones, member of aircraft ground handling crew at Williams Field, McMurdo Sound, during US Operation Deepfreeze 67.

Coastal rock outcrops on the eastern side of the Bay of Winds, Queen Mary Land. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after S.E. Jones, a member of the expedition.

Named for Sjoerd Jongens engineer (electronics and communications) member of the over wintering parties at Mawson (1980) and Macquarie Island (1986) for the Australian Antarctic Division and at World Park Base (1988) for Greenpeace International. Sjoerd cared deeply about the Antarctic and maintained a continuing interest in Antarctica and Antarctic research and was concerned about the over exploitation of its resources. He participated in several Greenpeace campaigns at sea to stop whaling in Antarctic waters. The island for which his name is proposed is visible from Béchervaise Island near Mawson Station and it is likely Sjoerd would have seen it.

A glacier about 28 km long, flowing eastward from the slopes between Mount Coley and Pyramid Mountain to Nursery Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after Lt. Cdr. H.P. Jorda, USN, a pilot with VX-6 Squadron, who made several long-range exploratory flights during USN Operation Deepfreeze 1962.

Beach located on South West Bay between Kildalkey Head and Erratic Point, Heard Island