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The westernmost point of land on the rocky cape on which the base was built at Cape Denison.

An island just over 2 km long and about 110 m high, about 3 km east of the Øygarden Group.

The bay between Unity Point and Langdon Point on the west coast of Macquarie Island. The name was first used on the 1917 Admiralty Chart and commemorates Lieutenant William Langdon, Royal Navy, who visited the Island in March 1822 and lodged with the Admiralty the sketch chart prepared during this visit. This early map was not used as a source of names until the preparation of the 1917 edition of the Admiralty Chart.

The name was first used on the 1917 Admiralty Chart and commemorates Lieutenant William Langdon, Royal Navy, who visited the Island in March 1822 and lodged with the Admiralty the sketch chart prepared during this visit. This early map was not used as a source of names until the preparation of the 1917 edition of the Admiralty Chart.

This was the site of the first seaborne landing on the Island. The landing was made by a LARC (amphibious vehicle) from the MV Cape Pillar during the Australian National Mapping Expedition 1980. A small sheltered cove at the head of Williams Bay, McDonald Island. It has a sandy beach at low tide and provides the best landing place on the Island. There is access to the main part of the Island by a penguin ramp at the northern end of the beach. With the volcanic eruption On McDonald Island in 2003 the original LARC Cove disappeared. Name recycled.

A circular freshwater lake south of Powell Point in the Vestfold Hills. "Larelar" is Aboriginal for circular or round and the lake is named for its shape.

The coast of Mac.Robertson Land between Murray Monolith and 71 degrees E. This coast was explored and charted in January, 1931, by Norwegian whalers employed by Lars Christensen of Sandefjord, Norway, after whom it was named.

A group of bare, rounded hills from 80 m to 180 m high, which extends along the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land for about 15 km. Discovered in February, 1935, by a Norwegian expedition under Captain Klarius Mikkelsen. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). First visited and position fixed by M.M. Fisher, ANARE surveyor in 1957.

A bank with less than 18 m of water, about 3 km from the summit of Shirley Island, Windmill Islands. The bank is about 90 m long (north-south) and 45 m wide, least depth found was 16 m. Charted in January 1962 during a survey of Newcomb Bay and approaches by d' A.T. Gale, hydrographic surveyor with the ANARE Expedition on the MV Thala Dan led by Phillip Law. Named after Ludvig Larsen, second mate on the M.V. Thala Dan in 1962.  

A group of small rocky islands about 5 km ENE of Cape Denison, George V Land. Discovered in January, 1912, by the Main Base party of AAE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named them after C.F. Laseron, a member of the AAE expedition.

A short, broad glacier lying between the Lashly Mountains on the west and the Mt Feather - Tabular Mountain block (Ross Dependency) on the east. It flows south from a poorly defined ice divide from the upper Taylor Glacier, into the upper Skelton Glacier. So named by the New Zealand party of TAE (1956-58) because of its proximity to the Lashly Mountains.

Mountains rising to 2,620 m above sea level standing near the edge of the polar plateau and south of the head of the Taylor Glacier in Victoria Land. These mountains, which are partly in the Ross Dependency, were discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904) under Scott who named them after Leading-Stoker William Lashly, RN, a member of the expedition.

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.

A small permanently frozen lake at the foot of a steep ice slope in the Framnes Mountains. It has a pressure dome in the centre and is about 2.2 ha in area. The lake is near Rumdoodle hut.

An inlet on Mule Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, just west of Laternula Lake. Visited by an ANARE geological and biological party in January-February 1972.

A lake about 1 km SSW of Clear Lake on Mule Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. The lake was visited by an ANARE Biological and Geological party in January 1972 who found it to have unique layered deposits of the shells of the clam, Laternula elliptica around it.

A peak about 24 km south-east of Mt. Biscoe in Enderby Land. Discovered in January, 1930, by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after the Rt. Hon. Sir John Latham, Minister for External Affairs in the Australian Commonwealth Government, 1931-34.

A prominent peninsula on the north-west part of Heard Island joined by a narrow isthmus.

A very broad bay, choked with bay ice and ice shelf, west of the Matusevich Glacier in Oates Land. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Sketched and photographed by Phillip Law, leader of the ANARE Expedition on the MV Magga Dan on 20 February, 1959. Named after Knud Lauritzen, shipowner, of Copenhagen, Denmark, owner of the Magga Dan and other vessels used by ANARE since 1954.

The northernmost point of Shipton Ridge in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named after Lieut. Lavallee, a US Navy helicopter pilot, who assisted in establishing the expedition in the Allan Hills.