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An ice shelf occupying the inner part of Edward VIII Gulf, fed by several glaciers. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). First visited by an ANARE sledging party led by Robert Dovers in 1954.

An independent ice cap on the peninsula between Magnet Bay and Edward VIII Gulf in Kemp Land. Probably seen by personnel of the William Scoresby in February, 1936.

That part of the coast of Princess Elizabeth Land between longitude 81 degrees E and Cape Penck 87 degrees 43' E. This coast was charted by a Norwegian expedition under Lars Christensen in January 1934. Named after King Leopold and Queen Astrid of Belgium.

A group of nunataks about 17 km north-east of Summers Peak in Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped from ANARE air photographs. Named after D.F. King, aircraft engineer with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains surveys in 1970 and 1971.

A bay in the Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956

A somewhat isolated peak, 1170 m, located 4.4 km NNE of Gaylord Ridge in Nebraska Peaks.

An isolated nunatak about 63 km WSW of Sandercock Nunataks in Enderby Land. Discovered by the eleventh Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition in December 1970.

A spur in the north-western part of Shipton Ridge in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named after J.F. Kirkaldy, professor of Geology at Queen Mary College, London.

A sheer coastal outcrop on Tange Promontory, Enderby Land. Continental ice reaches almost to the top on its southern side. Plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. First visited by an ANARE party led by SL Kirkby in November, 1960. Named after SL Kirkby, surveyor at Mawson in 1960.

A small shoal area with depths of less than 18 m extending about 140 m westwards and SSW, about 3.4 km from the summit of Shirley Island, Windmill Islands. Discovered and charted during a hydrographic survey of Newcomb Bay and approaches by d'A.T. Gale hydrographic surveyor, with the ANARE Expedition on the MV Thala Dan, 1962, led by Phillip Law. Named after S.L. Kirkby, surveyor with the expedition.  

A small coastal island off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land, about 7 km west of Cape Daly. The island is the southern of two islands about 30 m above sea level. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). The island was first visited by an ANARE party from Mawson in July, 1959. Named after M. Kirton, geophysicist at Mawson in 1959.

A small island, the southernmost of a north-south chain of small islands about 2 km north of Mt. Caroline Mikklesen. An ANARE party landed by aircraft at Kista Rock on 26 August 1957, and obtained an astrofix.

The body of water between the Flat Islands and the Jocelyn Islands in Holme Bay, off the Mawson Coast, of Mac.Robertson Land. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). The passage was first navigated by M.V. Kista Dan (Capt. H.C. Petersen) in 1954 en route to the site on which ANARE under Phillip Law established Mawson station.

A small island about 2 km ENE of Smith Rocks, off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and ANARE 1956. Named after V.J. Kitney, supervising technician (radio) at Mawson in 1968.

A strait between McMahon Islands and the Thala Hills, Enderby Land. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named Proliv Kitovyy (Whale Strait) by the Soviet Expedition.

A pass in the range just east of Mount Egerton. Named by the Northern Party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960-61) who used the pass to cross the range.

A group of small islands, including Farrington Island, about 9 km NNE of Couling Island, in the William Scoresby Archipelago, off Kemp Land. Farrington Island was discovered and named by the William Scoresby Expedition (1936).

A small island, about 85 m above sea level, about 6 km west of Austnes Skerries in the northern part of Edward VIII Gulf.

A prominent point about 9 km south of Cape Boothby in Kemp Land. Fixed by J.C. Armstrong of ANARE in 1959.

A colony of emperor penguins located at eastern side of Edward VIII Plateau, Kemp Land. Squadron Leader P.H. Clemence, Commanding Officer of the Royal Australian Air Force, first sighted this colony from an ANARE Beaver aircraft in 1957. Note: emperor penguin colonies may not remain in one fixed location. This feature was formally known as Kloa Rookery. It was changed to Kloa Point Colony in June 2023 to reflect the emperor penguin colony.