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A Russian scientific station located at an elevation of 91 m on the coast of Oates Land. The station was established in 1970 and permanently manned in 1971.

One of the group of three peaks, south-east of Husky Massif and about 30 km east of Mount Hicks in the Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1960. Named after W.H. Lensink, weather observer at Wilkes in 1960.

A ridge approximately 1.7km long north of Lavett Bluff and west of 51 Glacier, Heard Island.

"Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956.

An elevation in the surface of the West Ice Shelf rising to 184 m above sea level. Discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). This feature was called Ostrov Leskova (Lednikovyy Kupol) after A. Leskov, Lieutenant of the sloop Vostok, one of the ships of the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-1821).

A rock outcrop with a conical peak at its southern end, about 8 km south of Mount Cook in the Leckie Range, Kemp Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after Leslie Miller, radio officer at Mawson in 1964, a member of one of the survey parties which carried out a tellurometer traverse passing through the Leckie Range in 1965.

A small island immediately NE of Greater Mackellar Island in the Mackellar Islands, lying 3.7km N of Cape Denison in the centre of Commonwealth Bay.

A small rocky island on the eastern side of Davis Bay, about 30 m from the continental ice cliffs of Wilkes Coast. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The first landing was made on the island by an ANARE party on 7 January 1956. Named by USACAN after T. Lewis, gunner on the sloop of war Peacock, one of the ships of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Wilkes.

A small island to the north of the Bolingen Islands at the south of Prydz Bay. The first landing was made by an ANARE sledging party led by Phillip Law on 5 February, 1955. The name is derived from the rich growth of lichens found on the island.

A lake about 1 km long, constricted in the middle, in Lichen Valley, Vestfold Hills. The lake was one of several lakes investigated by ANARE biologists wintering at Davis in 1974.

A valley about 60 m deep in the northern part of the Vestfold Hills, about 1.25 km north of Luncke Ridge. So named because of the number and variety of lichens found there.

A hill about 120 m high in the north-central part of Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, near Long Fjord. The southern face of the hill is almost perpendicular. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). First visited by an ANARE sledge party led by Bruce H. Stinear in 1958.

A glacier on the south-west coast, just north of Cape Arkona. Named after N.T.Lied, radio supervisor with ANARE Heard Island in 1951 and weather observer with ANARE Heard Island in 1963.

The western promontory of the Broknes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills.

A tributary glacier of the Hatherton Glacier, which drains the northern slopes of Mount Olympus, between Johnstone Ridge and Dusky Ridge. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after B.J. Lieske, meteorologist, who wintered at Little America V in 1957.

One of the Donovan Islands off the Budd Coast. The region was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), by ANARE (1956) and by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). Named by USACAN after a member of the 1957 Wilkes party, aerographer B.R. Lilienthal, USN.  

One of the group of peaks at the eastern end of the Hansen Mountains, Kemp Land, about 41 km south-east of Fram Peak. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after Lindsay Smith, helicopter engineer with the ANARE Expedition on the MV (Nella Dan), 1965, led by Phillip Law.

A narrow, broken rock ridge about 17 km long, at the northern end of the Mawson Escarpment. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1958 and 1973. Named after John D. Lines, (then) Assistant Director, of the (then) Division of National Mapping, Australian Department of Minerals and Energy.

A group of nunataks between Jennings Promontory and Reinbolt Hills on the eastern side of the Amery Ice Shelf. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The position of the nunataks was fixed by intersection from Corry Rocks and Rubeli Bluff by ANARE surveyors in 1968. Named after Norm Linton-Smith, (then) senior technical officer with the Antarctic Division, Melbourne, a member of the ANARE Amery Ice Shelf glaciological traverse in 1970.

A nunatak about 19 km east of Perov Nunataks in Enderby Land. Named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition after the Soviet Icebreaker Litke.