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A mountain with a jagged and pinnacled outline, north of the Pomerantz Tableland and just west of Mount Gillmor in the USARP Mountains, Oates Land. So named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition because of its resemblance to Gothic Architecture.

A rocky nunatak about 19 km south-west of Vance Bluff. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

The base of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition on the coast of Queen Mary Land, just south of Haswell Island. The station was established early in 1956. Named after the sloop Mirny, one of the ships of the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-21).

A cirque forming a large embayment in Haskell Ridge in the Darwin Mountains. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63). It is the type locality for the Misthound Coal measures, a formation of the Beacon Sequence of the Darwin Mountains. So named because of the eerie bleakness and often mist-filled floor of the cirque, which contained many peculiarly shaped boulders resembling large dogs.

A group of moderately low, rocky hills, about 2 km south-west of the McKaskle Hills on the eastern margin of the Amery Ice Shelf. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).Named after G. Mistichelli, an aircrew member on Operation Highjump.

The central nunatak in a group of three nunataks in the northern part of the Manning Nunataks. The Manning Nunataks were photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and ANARE (1957). They were visited by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1965 and ANARE in 1969. Named after R. Mitchell, senior diesel mechanic at Mawson in 1969, who assisted the Amery Ice Shelf project to recover vehicles in January-February, 1969.

A rocky outcrop connected to the continental ice by ice and snow on the Budd Coast. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). USACAN called this feature Mitchell Island after Captain R.A. Mitchell, USN, captain of the USS Cacapon which participated in Operation Highjump.  

A low, snow-covered, rock ridge about 2 km west of Humphreys 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.

A small island, ~ 2.8 km E of Harbour Island, in the Bol'shie Skalistye Islands, located in southern Prydz Bay.

Rock outcrops about 5 km west of Tilman Ridge in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named after Dr Mixon, a U.S. Navy medical officer who treated an injured member of the expedition.

A small cluster of nunataks about 22 km south of Wilhoite Nunataks. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

A peak about 9 km west of Mount Bennett in Enderby Land. It has an elevation of 1,660 m. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Mjåkollen (The narrow Knoll) by Norwegian cartographers.

A point marking the eastern end of Currituck Island, off the Bunger Hills. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).

An island in the eastern part of Newcomb Bay, Windmill Islands. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946/47). Named after J.T. Molholm, assistant glaciologist at Wilkes in 1958.  

A shoal area with depths of less than 11 m, extending for about 320 m in a north-south direction. There are depths of 3.4 m at the southern end. The shoal is about 3 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 from Molholm Island.  

A glacier flowing ENE into the northern part of the Hannan Ice Shelf, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after J.D. Molle, radio officer at Davis in 1960.

A submarine bank with depths less than 91 metres, about 3 km from the Welch Island triangulation point in a bearing 257 degrees. The bank is about 366 metres long in a NNE-SSW direction and about 137 metres wide, with a least depth of 31 metres. Charted in February 1961 by D'A T Gale, hydrographic surveyor with the ANARE expedition led by Don Styles.

A small pond approximately 50 m long on the eastern side of Marine Plain in the Vestfold Hills with numerous shell fossils outcropping on the western side.

A Russian scientific station in Enderby Land. The station was opened in 1963 and in 1971 was reorganised into a meteorological centre and the principal base of the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions.

A nunatak about 6 km west of Bartrum Plateau on the edge of the Marsh Glacier. Discovered by the NZ Geological Expedition (1964-65). Named after Lieut. Moody, USN, who flew the party in and out of the southern part of the area covered by the Expedition.