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A peninsula in the Rauer Group.

A sound between Islay and Bertha Islands in the William Scoresby Archipelago off Kemp Land.

A small, domed, rock outcrop, about 51 km NNE of Mount Dummett in the Southern Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. First visited by an ANARE party led by R.A. Ruker in 1960. Named after D.K. Machin, radio officer at Mawson 1960.

A group of about 30 small islands and rocks 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 it after C.D. Mackellar of London, a patron of the expedition.

A bay about 24 km wide in the most westerly part of the Amery Ice Shelf. The bay was plotted by radar by the ANARE Expedition on the MVNella Dan in 1965 and again in 1968. The name MacKenzie Sea was applied by Sir Douglas Mawson to a large embayment between the western side of the Amery Ice Shelf and Cape Darnley. Break-out of a large part of the Amery Ice Shelf in 1964 caused a drastic reduction in the size of the Bay. Named by Sir Douglas Mawson, leader of BANZARE (1929-31) after Captain K.N. MacKenzie, master of the expedition''s ship Discovery in 1930-31.

A small coastal island off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land, about 7 km west of Cape Daly. The island is the northern of two islands about 30 m above sea level. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Named after Eric L. Macklin, radio officer at Mawson in 1955 and 1959.

A conspicious ice-capped mountain with rocky slopes on the north-western side of Pomerantz Tableland. Plotted from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named after F.L. MacPherson, Specialist 5th Class, USA, helicopter mechanic in the field supporting Topo North-South, 1961-62, and Topo East-West, 1962-63.

Macquarie Island was discovered on 10 April, 1810 by Frederick Hasselburgh of the brig "Perserverance" of Sydney and named in honour of Lachlan Macquarie, then Governor of New South Wales.

A rocky exposure reaching a height of 732 m above sea level, about 19 km WSW of the head of Watt Bay, on the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after C.T. Madigan, a member of the expedition.

A small island less than 0.5 km north-east of Cameron Island in the Swain Group, Windmill Islands. This vicinity was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1956 and 1962) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). It was included in a ground survey of the Swain Group by Carl Eklund, scientific leader at Wilkes in 1957. Named after George E. Magee, USN, carpenter at Wilkes station in 1957.  

A triangular wall of sheer rock, forming the end of the northern-most of the Burnside Ridges. The summit is a sharp point on which a cairn was raised. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). A first landing from a ship was made and an astrofix obtained on 20 February 1959 by the ANARE Expedition on the MV Magga Dan led by Phillip Law.

Maggs Island is one of the larger islands that make up the Rookery Islands. Maggs Island is one of the islands on the eastern islands about 3.5km from the Antarctic coastline.

An embayment on the coast of Kemp Land, about 24 km west of Cape Davis. BANZARE (1929-31) plotted Magnet Bay as a wide embayment extending from Cape Davis to Cape Borley. Later exploration, especially that by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and ANARE (1956-61) has shown the bay to be less extensive than plotted by BANZARE. Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after the vessel in which Peter Kemp first sighted land in this vicinity in 1833.

A black rocky point at the eastern extremity of Sydney Cove, Heard Island. Named after the sealing ship Magnet from which Peter Kemp first sighted Heard Island 27 November 1833.

A small island situated in the north-east part of Prydz Bay about 5 km from the coast of Vestfold Hills and about 5 km north-west of Davis. Charted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Visited by an ANARE party led by Phillip Law on 3 March, 1954. Named because magnetic observations taken by J. Brooks showed the declination to be anomalous.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

The strait lies between Fuller Island and Aviatorov Peninsula. Chartered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

A prominent rock feature east of Halle Flat in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named after its resemblance to a pre-Roman earthwork of the same name in Dorsetshire, England.

Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

The name occurs on the first accurate map of the Island which was prepared by Leslie Russel Blake, Surveyor with the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14. So named because it is the largest lake on the Island.