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Williams Lake is an oval shaped saline lake near the western end of Long Peninsula in the Vestfold Hills. It is approximately 1 km long and 250 m wide. The lake is separated from Bulatnaya Bay in the north and Long Fjord in the south by low divides. The surface of the lake is 0.5 - 1m above the high water mark. Water has not been observed flowing into the lake from the ocean, but was flowing from the lake into Long Fjord on 16 January 1988. The maximum recorded depth in Williams Lake is 7 m but the lake is quite large and there could well be deeper points than so far discovered. The salinity of Lake Williams ranges from near seawater salinity near the surface to over 100gL-1 at 7m. Lake water is anoxic beneath 6 m. The lake appears to be permanently stratified and should thus be considered meromictic.

A rounded hill protruding from the top of the ice cliff, about 3 km south-east of Herring Island on the Budd Coast. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after photographer's mate C.E. Williams, who took part in USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).  

A group of rocks about 19 km NNW of Mawson. The rocks were mapped by Robert G. Dovers, officer-in-charge at Mawson in 1954. They were fixed by triangulation carried out by D.R. Carstens, surveyor at Mawson in 1962.

A glacier, about 57 km long, flowing north-easterly into the sea in the south-east part of Law Dome, Budd Coast. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The upper valley of the glacier was crossed by an ANARE glaciological and geophysical party in 1970. Named by USACAN after J. Williamson, gunner on the sloop Vincennes, one of the ships of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Lieut. (later Rear Adm.) C. Wilkes, USN.

A prominent headland on the coast of Oates Land. Discovered from the Terra Nova in February 1911 during Scott's last expedition. Named after Petty Officer Thomas S. Williamson, RN, a member of the shore party of the expedition.

The western of the two glaciers entering the southern part of the King Edward Ice Shelf in Kemp Land. Seen by an ANARE party led by Robert Dovers in November, 1954.

A large, rather flat-topped, rock outcrop at the southern end of the Lambert Glacier. This feature has a tail of moraine extending north-east for several km. Photographed by ANARE aircraft in 1956. Visited by an airborne field party led by G.A. Knuckey in October, 1958. Named after Flight Lieutenant H.O. Wilson, RAAF, pilot at Mawson in 1958.

The southern of twin glaciers flowing into King Edward Ice Shelf, Kemp Land, about 17 km north-west of Cape Dalton. Photographed in 1956 from ANARE aircraft.

A group of hills on the coast of Oates Land. Discovered by Lieut. H.L.L. Pennell, RN, on the Terra Nova in February, 1911, during Scott's last expedition. Named after Dr. Edward A. Wilson, zoologist with the expedition, who perished with Scott on the return journey from the Pole.

The largest of a group of small islands, about 1 km WNW of Bosner Island in the southern part of the Windmill Islands. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).

A prominent razorback ridge about 11 km north of Mount Harding in the Grove Mountains, Princess Elizabeth Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after R.R. Wilson, (then) topographic draughtsman with the Division of National Mapping of the Australian Department of National Development.

A group of rocks in the sea about 9 km ENE of Smith Rocks, off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and called Spjotøyskjera by Norwegian cartographers.

A strip of rocky islands about 11 km wide, parallel to the coast and extending north for about 28 km from Vanderford Glacier, on the eastern side of Vincennes Bay. Mapped from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Wilkes station was established there in 1957 and Casey station established there in 1969. Visited by helicopter by personnel for USN Operation Windmill (1947-48) after which the islands were named by USACAN.  

A broad bay to the south east of Green Point.

The western point of McDonald Island at a height of about 20 metres between the Needle and Cauldron Bay. The point is rocky, eroded and exposed to the full force of the westerly gales. A survey station was established on this point in March 1980 in very windy conditions. Feature relocated and name recycled due to volcanic eruption in 2003.

A square sandstone peak south of Punchbowl Cirque in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named because of the peculiar behaviour of the wind in its vicinity.

The elevated region lying between Whisky Creek in the south and a point about half a kilometre northeast of Basin Lake (see above) in the north. The ridge slopes away to both east and west and forms the gently undulating but extremely exposed location of a two kilometre length of the Overland Track which has been notorious for years for its strong winds which can knock a person off his/her feet and make traffic virtually impossible. The descriptive name Windy Ridge has been in common use for many years.

One of the larger and most northerly island in the Bol'shie Skalistye Islands, located in southern Prydz Bay.

A glacier flowing into the northern side of Winston Lagoon, from which it was named.