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The largest of the Klung Islands about 2 km ENE of Welch Island off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

A group of small islands 7 km north-east of Mawson. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Klungholmane (The Bramble Islets).

A group of three peaks about 7 km north-east of Simmers Peak in Enderby Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Knattane (The Crags) by Norwegian cartographers.

A peak about 9 km north-west of Armstrong Peak in the Napier Mountains, Enderby Land. The feature is about 1230 m above sea level. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Knausen (The Crag) by Norwegian cartographers.

A nunatak about 9 km SSE of Cape Kinsey in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after Yeoman First Class M.W. Knight, USN, who served with the Operations Division of the US Naval Support Force, Antarctica, at Washington, Christchurch and McMurdo station, 1967-70.

A rock outcrop in the northern part of the Nye Mountains, Enderby Land, about 6 km north of Mount Underwood. Photographed by ANARE in 1957 and 1958 and by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1962. Named Gora Knippovicha (Mount Knippovich) by the Soviet Expedition after N.M. Knippovich, Russian Arctic explorer.

A water passage between Holl Island and Peterson Island in the Windmill Islands. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after Lieut. L.C. Knowles, USN, engineer officer on the USS Burton Island,, a ship which took part in USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).  

That portion of the coast of Wilkes Land between Cape Hordern 100.52 degrees E and the Hatch Islands 109.28 degrees E. Discovered in February 1840, by the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Charles Wilkes, who named it after Lieut. S.R. Knox, USN., captain of the USEE tender Flying Fish.

An isolated nunatak about 25 km south-west of Mount Kernot in Kemp Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1959. Named after Mike Knox-Little, radio officer at Mawson in 1974, a member of the ANARE Enderby Land survey party in 1975 and who has wintered 8 times

The largest of a group of three islands lying about 1.1 km north-west of the western end of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills.

A group of peaks in Enderby Land, extending WSW-ENE, about 115 km west of the Leckie Range. Discovered and fixed by an ANARE dog-sledge party in December, 1958. Named after G.A. Knuckey, surveyor at Mawson in 1958, and a member of the dog-sledge party.

A small island on the western side of Casey Bay, Enderby Land, just west of Pinn Island. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956. Named after the Australian native animal, the Koala or 'native bear'.

An island, about 75 m above sea level, off the eastern side of the Hoseason Glacier Tongue in Kemp Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Kollen (The Knoll) by Norwegian cartographers.

A hill just north of the main section of the station at Mirny. Plotted and named Sopka Komsomolskaya by the first Soviet Antarctic Expedition at Mirny in 1956.

A partly snow-covered peak rising above the plateau about 240 km SSE of Mount Menzies. Discovered by the crew of a Soviet aircraft on 7 December 1958 during a flight from the Pole of Inaccessibility to Mirny. Photographed by ANARE in December 1960. Named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition.

A raft-like nunatak in the centre of the lower Nimrod ice falls. Discovered by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-62). Named after the raft Kon-Tiki which drifted across the Pacific Ocean from east to west in 1947.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1958.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

A group of five small peaks about 4 km north-west of Mount Starlight in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Recorded on terrestrial photographs taken by R.H. Lacey, surveyor at Mawson in 1955, and aerial photographs by ANARE in 1959 and 1965. Named after C. Kotterer, weather observer-in-charge at Davis in 1964.