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Three small islands about 1.5 km south-west of Davis station. Plotted from ANARE air photographs.

A rugged rock ridge just south-west of Murray Monolith on the Mawson Coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Land was sighted in this vicinity by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson in January, 1930. During the second voyage of BANZARE on 13 February, 1931, a flag and proclamation were thrown ashore at Murray Monolith and a landing made at Scullin Monolith, 6.5 km to the west. In January and February, 1931, several Norwegian whale catchers explored this coast, making sketches of the land from their vessels. They applied the name Torlyn Fjell to both this feature and what Mawson named Murray Monolith. As this feature is higher than Murray Monolith, it appears that this was a feature seen by the Norwegians.
In November 2015, Australia changes the name from Torlyn Mountain to Torlyn Mountains. The Torlyn Mountains applies to the cluster of small peaks and outcrops directly behind, and not including, Murray Monolith.

A headland named for the MV Tottan, the ship used to relieve the Macquarie Island wintering parties in 1952 and 1953.

Submerged rock northeast of Roger’s Head, Azorella Peninsula, Heard Island

A glacier marked by a prominent glacier tongue on the western part of the Sabrina Coast of Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by the USACAN after George M Totten of the sloop Vincennes of the US Exploring Expedition (1939-42), under Wilkes.

A tributary of the Darwin Glacier flowing between Bastion Hill and Roadend Nunatak in the Brown Hills. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition. So named because the glacier was used as a landing site for aircraft supporting the expedition.

A prominent outlier of the Tilman Ridge in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named after J.A. Townrow, of the University of Tasmania, palaeobotanist with the expedition.

A broken mountain glacier on the southern side of Mount Menzies, about 4 km from the summit. It is about 9 km long and 6 km wide. It runs from a snowfield at about 2,750 m down a steep slope for at least 900 m vertically, then spreads out and merges with the ice cap a few km from the south side of the mountain. The glacier was partly photographed by ANARE aircraft in 1960. First visited by a field party led by D.S. Trail in December, 1961. Named after D.S. Trail, geologist at Mawson in 1961.

A rock ridge, about 125 m high, in the eastern part of the Vestfold Hills, about 6 km north of the eastern extremity of Crooked Lake. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (1954, 1957 and 1958) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956).

A gulf to the north-west of the Bunger Hills formed between the Bunger Hills and the Edisto Glacier.

An isolated group of rocks at the western end of the southern margin of Khmara Bay in Enderby Land. A prominent feature of the geology of these outcrops is the transposed layering.

An island about 1.5 km across, in the eastern part of Stefansson Bay between Fold Island and Keel Island. The island was first visited by an ANARE led by Peter W. Crohn in 1956.

A submarine bank with a least depth of 102 m in the eastern part of the Davis Sea. Discovered by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after Dr. W.L. Tressler, oceanographer with the US Hydrographic Office and scientific leader at Wilkes station in 1958.

A rocky promontory about 120 m high, projecting north about a mile from the coast of Kemp Land, approximately 9 km east of William Scoresby Bay.

A small, oval, humped island, about 2 km south of Nost Island in Holme Bay, Mac.Robertson Land. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Rundxy (Round Island).

A peak on the ridge between Astro Glacier and Skua Glacier in the northern Miller Range. Discovered by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-62). So named because of the resemblance to an old-fashioned type of hat.

The easternmost of two small lakes north-west of Club Lake in the Vestfold Hills.

An island about 1.5 km long between Anchorage Island and Flutter Island, about 2 km north of Davis in the Vestfold Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

Ridge located south of Long Ridge and west of Graham Ridge

Three small nunataks on the Polar Plateau situated close together, between Ricker Peak and the upper reaches of the David Glacier. Discovered and named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1962-63).