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An island about 2 km west of Bluff Island, Vestfold Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

An open bay in the eastern part of Prydz Bay just west of the West Ice Shelf. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Barriervika (The Barrier Bay).

An island about 1.5 km long, elongated north-south in the entrance to Tryne Sound in the northern part of the Vestfold Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

A bay between Priddy Promontory and Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills.

A steep, crevassed glacier in the Brown Hills, rising from the same névé as the Foggydog Glacier, from which it is separated by Blank Peninsula. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63). Named after Professor J.A. Bartrum (1885-1949), Professor of Geology at the University of Auckland.

The ridge shelters the Base from strong winds and is a haven for breeding snow petrels (Pagodroma nivea). A ridge just east of Law Base in the Larsemann Hills.

A group of nunataks approximately 1700 m above sea level and rising about 30 m above the surrounding plateau on the southern face of the Aramis Range, in the Prince Charles Mountains. Visited in January, 1957, by the ANARE southern party led by William G. Bewsher.

A small, lone island, partially ice-covered in winter, about 7 km west of Mawson. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

A granite peak, just south-east of Mount Gorton in Oates Land. Named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1963-64) because of its shape.

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 prominent feature at the extremity of a tongue of land projecting some distance into the Darwin Glacier. Discovered and named by the Darwin Glacier Party of (1956-58).

A small isolated nunatak, 1,991 m above sea level in the nivi of the Byrd Glacier below the crest of the Polar Plateau. Discovered by the Darwin Glacier Party of the TAE (1956-58). Named by the NZ Antarctic Place Names Committee after J Bates, a member of the TAE, who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary to the South Pole.

A large nunatak near the head of the Mawson Glacier (Ross Dependency) 37 km. NNW of Mt Brooke. The nunatak is mostly ice-free and has a number of very small unnamed nunataks running in a line west from the main peak. Discovered and named by the TAE (1957-58). The name describes the steep rock towers of the nunatak.

A glacier flowing eastwards into Radok Lake in the eastern part of the Aramis Range in the Prince Charles Mountains. The glacier is marked by a glacier tongue which projects about 3 km into Radok Lake. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956 and 1960. Named after A.C. Battye, glaciologist at Wilkes in 1962.

A large glacier on the north coast of Heard Island.

A bay on the west coast of Macquarie Island.

An embayment in the coast of Queen Mary Land, between Cape Dovers and Jones Rocks. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). So named because of the almost constant outflow of cold dense air from the plateau into the bay.

A coastal bay in the Vestfold Hills, about 2 km long and approximately 0.5 km across. There are 3 islands which almost block the entrance to the bay. It is a salinity stratified environment. The deepest water is salty and without oxygen. The bay was first sampled in 1986.

An irregular-shaped island in the Windmill Islands, off Mitchell Peninsula, Budd Coast. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USCAN after J M Beall, US Weather Bureau observer with USN Operation Windmill (1947-48).  

Submarine ridges, with depths of less than two metres 2 km west of Beall Island, Windmill Islands. Discovered from the launch at Wilkes station in 1961. Named from Beall Island.