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The highest peak of a group, about 28 km south-east of Mount Codrington in Enderby Land. It is about 1,470 m above sea level. Photographed from ANARE aircraft in 1956. An astrofix was obtained nearby, in December 1959, by J.C. Armstrong, surveyor at Mawson in 1959, after whom the feature was named.

A series of rock outcrops in a steeply-falling ice-scarp south of the Leckie Range in Kemp Land. Plotted in December, 1959, by an ANARE dog-sledge party led by G.A. Knuckey. Named after R.R. Arnel, geophysical assistant at Mawson, 1958.

A small glacier in the Mawson Escarpment, between Casey Point and Gibbs Bluff. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Named after P Arriens, geochronologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1973.

A small island, about 1 km long, 7 km WNW of Mawson.

A long, narrow nunatak, which in plan has a distinctive head and tail resembling an arrow, lying in the Nimrod Glacier towards the head of that glacier. Discovered and named by the southern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960-61).

A ridge on the eastern side of the McLeod Glacier, which flows into Davies Bay, Oates Land. First visited by an ANARE airborne field party in March 1961. Named after J. Arthurson, helicopter pilot with the ANARE Expedition on the MV Magga Dan 1961) led by Phillip Law.

A small glacier leading from the polar plateau into the upper Aurora Glacier. Discovered and named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-62) which used the glacier to gain access to and from the central Miller Range.

A glacier flowing westwards into Spooner Bay, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after Pilot Officer K. Assender, RAAF, pilot at Mawson in 1960.

A small glacier, 28 km long, draining the northern end of the Miller Range. The glacier flows into the Marsh Glacier and is separated from the main part of the Nimrod Glacier by a line of Nunataks. Discovered and named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-62), which occupied an Astro station on a bluff at the mouth of the glacier in December, 1961.

A subglacial basin underlying the eastern boundary of the Australian Antarctic Territory with Terre Adilie. It runs N-S and contains the thickest ice (about 4.7 km) measured in Antarctica. The basin was discovered and mapped by radio echo sounding by the Scott Polar Research Institute. Named after the Astrolabe, command ship of the French Expedition 1837-40.

The northern range of the Prince Charles Mountains. The western part of the range was first visited by an ANARE party led by J. Béchervaise in November, 1955. The range was again visited in December, 1956, by an ANARE party led by William G. Bewsher and a depot was established at the eastern extremity. Originally named Moonlight Range. Named after one of the Three Musketeers in Dumas's novel.

The exposed rocky cliffs on Heard Island between the Challenger and Nares Glaciers rising from sea level. Named after John L Atkinson, weather observer, 1952 ANARE Heard Island Expedition, who survived being swept out to sea in Corinthian Bay in May 1952, when Richard J Hoseason drowned and Alastair G Forbes subsequently died of exposure on the Baudissin Glacier. Atkinson spent the night under the ice cliffs and next day survived a journey along the beach at the foot of the Baudissin Glacier to return to the ANARE station at Atlas Cove.

A cove on the north west coast of Heard Island between Laurens Peninsula and Azorella Peninsula.

The anchorage outside Atlas Cove, Heard Island, between the Laurens Peninsula and Azorella Peninsula. Named after the tender Atlas (Captain Brown) of the New London Sealers (Connecticut, USA) who began operations on Heard Island in 1855.

A submarine bank on the Kerguelen Plateau 55 nautical miles NW from Heard Island. The bank is about 200 metres deep. The position has been fixed by echo sounding and GPS. It has been mapped by various survey vessels including the Eltanin, Cape Pillar, Professor Mesyatsev and RSV Aurora Australis.

A cave on Macquarie Island.

A peak on the northern side of Argosy Glacier, Miller Range. Discovered and named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-62). Named after S.Y. Aurora, expedition ship with the Ross Sea Party of the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-16).

A peak about 533 m above sea level, about 7 km SSW of Mount Murchison in George V Land. Discovered in 1912 by AAE under Sir Douglas Mawson who named it after the expedition ship SY Aurora.

A point on the mid-western coast of Macquarie Island.

A subglacial basin within the Australian Antarctic Territory west and south of Dome Circe. It extends south E-NW towards the coast in the vicinity of the Shackleton Ice Shelf. Mapped in detail by radio echo sounding by the Scott Polar Research Institute. Named after Aurora (Captain J. K. Davis) the ship of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14.