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An open bay on the coast of George V Land, between Cape Bage and Cape Webb. Discovered in 1912 by the AAE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after G.F. Ainsworth, a member of the expedition.

A series of peaks, mainly snow-covered, the highest being about 1,800 m above sea level, WNW of Edward VIII Gulf.

A small low lying island about 3.5 km south-west of Cook Island. Jon Akerman was the 1990 Davis Station Leader and Leader of the 650 km traverse to the Larsemann Hills which completed the marking of a new year-round inland route. The new route 60 km inland allows expeditioners to travel safely throughout the year avoiding seasonally uncertain sea ice and crevassing caused by the movement of five major coastal glaciers.

A bight on the western coast of Enderby Land. Photographed by ANARE aircraft in 1956. Explored and charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1957. Named after the Soviet hydrographer, D.A. Alasheyev.

Tarn located near Anzac Peak on Laurens Peninsula, Heard Island

An Adélie penguin colony on the coast of Long Peninsula, Vestfold Hills.

Rock outcrops on the BANZARE Coast of Wilkes Land, about 37 km south-east of Cape Goodenough. Discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958.

A peak in the eastern part of the Nye Mountains, Enderby Land, about 37 km ESE of Amphitheatre Lake. Plotted from air photographs taken by an ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after W. Alderdice, weather observer at Wilkes Station in 1959.

A peak rising to 1800 m at the west end of the Ravens Mountains, Britannia Range.

An elongated sandy island that formed following the erosion of Elephant Spit, eastern Heard Island.

Two rock outcrops on the Budd Coast, south of the Windmill Islands, just east of Browning Peninsula. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The northern outcrop was used as an unoccupied trigonometrical station by A. McLaren in 1965. Named after N.H. Alexander, USN, photographer's mate on USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).  

An island in the Mackellar Islands 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 the group of islands after C.D. Mackellar of London, a patron of the expedition.

The eastern of two small islands just north of Falla Bluff. Probably first seen by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson in February, 1931.

A point of sand and shingle that formed following the erosion of Elephant Spit, eastern Heard Island.

An oval shaped small lake to the east of Round Lake and Long Lake and to the west of Beryl Hill about 360 m ESE from Mawson's main hut at Cape Denison. The feature was named by Douglas Mawson during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 and appears on official maps of the expedition.

A lake in the southern part of the Bunger Hills, Knox Coast in Wilkes Land. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956.

Algae River is a drainage system, centred on Algae Lake, that connects a series of epiglacial lakes along the southern margin of the Bunger Hills to Algae Lake and then to Transkriptsii Gulf. The length of the river is approximately 25 km in total, making it the third longest terrestrial drainage system known in Antarctica.

A group of hills, mostly ice-free, 'Y' shaped in plan, about 15 km NNW of Mount Brooke. The hills lie in the most south-westerly sources of the Mawson Glacier (Ross Dependency). Discovered by the New Zealand party of the TAE (1957-58).

A group of nunataks, lying south of Wallabies Nunataks, about 44 km west of Mount Albert Markham. Discovered and named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960-61).

A peak lying 2.5 km south of Moody Peak in the northern part of the Boomerang Range. Plotted from US Navy air photographs. Named by USACAN after L.J. Allemand, construction driver at Little America V in 1958.