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The island lies about 2.0 kms north of Miles Island. It lies in a large group of islands to the east of the Edisto Channel and about 2.0 kms south-west of the Remenchus Glacier. It measures about 2.5 by 1.0 kms. The apex is to the east and there are three short peninsulas pointing to the west. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

A ridge with several peaks, mostly snow-covered, about 4 km south-east of Mount Harding in the Grove Mountains, Princess Elizabeth Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after O. Zakharoff, radio officer at Mawson in 1960.

Charted by the SAE in 1956

A point on the south-west part of Long Peninsula, adjacent to the large adélie penguin colony. It was the site of a boat landing and food depot in 1972.

A bay in the Thala Hills, Enderby Land about 2 km east of Molodezhnaya station. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named Bukhta Zarya (Dawn Bay) by the Soviet Expedition.

A group of small islands off the northern coast of Long Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958. Named after Ostrova Zashchitnyye (Protective Islands) by the Soviet Expedition.

Charted by the SAE in 1957

An elevation in the surface of the West Ice Shelf, rising to 197 m above sea level. Discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). This feature was called Ostrov Zavadovskogo (Lednikovyy kupol) after I.I. Zavadovskiy, Lieutenant-Commander of the sloop Vostok, one of the ships of the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-1821).

A peak about 3 km north-east of Summers Peak in the Stinear Nunataks, Mac.Robertson Land. The feature was visited by D.J. Grainger, geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains Survey party in February, 1970. So named because of the irregular bands and lenses of light and dark coloured rocks which have the appearance of Zebra stripes.

A trench near the coast underlying the western boundary of the Australian Antarctic Territory with Terre Adélie. It runs NNE-SSW and forms the inland extension of the trough cut by the Mertz Glacier.

A glacier about 19 km long, flowing WNW to join Byrd Glacier just north of Mount Fries. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

A bay between Cape Feoktistov and Cape Steregushchyy in the Thala Hills, Enderby Land, about 4.8 km east of Molodezhnaya station. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958. Named Bukhta Zerkal'naya (Smooth Bay) by the Soviet Expedition.

Charted by the SAE in 1956.Bunger Hills

An island about a 0.6 km south-east of Werlein Island in the Windmill Islands. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after J.R. Zimmerman, meteorologist at Wilkes in 1958.

A small point extending into the southern part of Khmara Bay in Enderby Land and named after zircons collected from pegmatites at this locality.

Tarn located 500 metres inland from the eastern end of Corinthian Bay, Heard Island

An island off Mule Peninsula in the southern part of the Vestfold Hills, about 1 km south of Hawker Island. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958. Named Ostrov Zolotova (Zolotov Island) by the Soviet Expedition after A.H. Zolotov, hydrologist, who died in Antarctica.

An ice shelf in the southern part of Sakellari Peninsula, Enderby Land. Plotted by Russian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1962. The name means toothed and refers to the serrated nature of the ice front when viewed in plan.

An island in the western part of Long Fjord, Vestfold Hills, just north-west of Partizan Island. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958. Named Ostrov Zvuchnyy (Sonorous Island) by the Soviet Expedition.

Feature first named by Russia and adopted by Australia in 2012. It is shown on Russian map Gaussberg - scale 1:200,000 and SCAR map catalogue number 2819.