Boot Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 77° 53′ 27.348″ E
Longitude: 68° 52′ 24.256” S
Narrative
Named in recognition of its physical resemblance to the foot of a boot.
Bobbin Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 49′ 15.0” S
Longitude: 77° 48′ 03.0” E
Narrative
A low island about 1.3km long but only 220m wide and up to 30m high, situated directly north of the eastern part of Flag Island. Named for its long tapered shape, reminiscent of a lace making bobbin.
Cape Fortress
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 48′ 22.691” S
Longitude: 78° 1′ 0.967” E
Narrative
Named for its shape and prominence, this Cape is joined to the ice and features steep cliffs on all seaward sides. The western cliff has a steep gully, underlain by marble, allowing access to the flatter top of the Cape. The Cape was visited by ANARE in 1992–93 and 1993–94 for detailed mapping and sampling of the marble horizons.
Cape Gorbatyi
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 48’ 11.3” S
Longitude:78° 00’ 59.5” E
Narrative
A pyramid-shaped rocky promontory connected to the ice, situated 100m north of Cape Box and 2km on a bearing of 070 from the east end of Efremova Island. Visited and briefly mapped by ANARE 1992–93. The site was named by Russia with the place name adopted by Australia in 2016.
Complexity Head
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 51′ 56.515” S
Longitude: 77° 55′ 52.311” E
Narrative
A prominent box-shaped point connected to the ice cap, immediately east of Pchelka Island. Named in recognition of the striking layering in the gneisses, which on close inspection contain intense folds.
Dagger Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 46′ 18” S
Longitude: 77° 44′ 45.0” E
Narrative
An elongated low island in the north-west part of the Rauer Group. Named for its dagger-like shape.\
Cape Descent
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 51′ 20” S
Longitude: 77° 56′ 30.0” E
Narrative
Cape Descent forms a group of three hills, connected to the ice cap to the east and flanked there by moraine lines, and to the north faces a steep ice scour and narrow bay. Rock samples collected at the site in 1976 have been dated at over 3400 million years old. Named after the traverse in 1992 which ended in a steep ice descent from the north west facing flank of the Cape.
Bactrian Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 47′ 55” S
Longitude: 77° 55′ 30.0” E
Narrative
An island about 450m north of Efremova Island. Named after its two rounded promontories on its northwestern coast. Traversed and mapped in 1992.
Impregnable Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 46′ 50.0” S
Longitude: 77° 46′ 00.0” E
Narrative
Unusually high and steep-sided island in the north west Rauer Group, situated 3.5km to the north north west of Filla Island trig point. Named Impregnable Island as it was not possible to land on it on any of 3 occasions that it was flown to or over by ANARE during geological field surveys in 1983 and 1988.
Midway Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 50′ 20.0” S
Longitude: 77° 57′ 10.0” E
Narrative
Island lying midway between Shcherbinina Island and eastern Mather Peninsula. Notable for preserving deformed dykes cutting gneisses.
Needle Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 49′ 3.398” S
Longitude: 77° 55′ 26.468” E
Narrative
Named in recognition of its thin, elongated shape. It is an east north east trending island parallel to the south coast of Efremova Island and separated from Efremova Island by a 300m wide channel that is often blocked by small bergs and ice rafts.
Crocodile Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 49′ 50” S
Longitude: 77° 49' 20.0” E
Narrative
Named in recognition of its distinctive shape, with a long and thin western promontory reminiscent of a crocodile jaw.
Uranus Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 46′ 55.0” S
Longitude: 78° 03′ 31.0” E
Narrative
Named after the planet because of the relative remoteness of this island from the rest of the Rauer Group and the difficulties encountered in visiting it. Flown over by helicopter and photographed for its geology in 1983.
Neptune Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 45′ 54.343” S
Longitude: 78° 5′ 26.47” E
Narrative
Named after the remote planet because of the remoteness of this island from the rest of the Rauer Group and the difficulties encountered in visiting it.
Recovery Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 54′ 50.0” S
Longitude: 77° 53′ 00.0” E
Narrative
Small island located directly west of Cape Drakon. Visited briefly as a rest spot on the 1992 ski traverse Torckler-Drakon-Sapozhok.
Rescue Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 51′ 27.851” S
Longitude: 77° 47′ 4.782” E
Narrative
Small island located 700m to the south east of the central part of Varyag Island. Approximate midway point on boat-based operation from Efremova Island to Torckler Island in February 1983, undertaken to rescue three scientists who would otherwise have been stranded on Torckler Island. The expedition briefly paused by this island to assess the sea conditions before heading towards Torckler Island along the channel south east of the Hyslop Islands.
Rhino Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 47′ 26.882” S
Longitude: 77° 54′ 6.606” E
Narrative
Named in recognition of its shape, which is reminiscent of the head of a rhinoceros without a horn.
Ribbon Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 46′ 20.293” S
Longitude: 77° 55′ 14.842” E
Narrative
Named after its narrow elongate shape.
Star Promontory
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 52′ 29.796” S
Longitude: 77° 56′ 17.748” E
Narrative
Named after its distinctive shape, two points of an imaginary star with one point trending north north west and the other west. Visited by ANARE 1992–93 in a traverse from Mather Peninsula to Sapozhok Island and Cape Rybachiy. This promontory is important geologically as it preserves a shear zone that cuts the older gneisses.
Dyke Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 46′ 43.789” S
Longitude: 77° 54′ 48.654” E
Narrative
This island features an abundance of dark cross-cutting layers (intrusive dykes) in several orientations.
Thread Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 46′ 27.058” S
Longitude: 77° 53′ 54.121” E
Narrative
Named after its narrow elongate shape. It is heavily cut by deformed black dykes.
Weavers Island
Location
Rauer Group, Ingrid Christensen Coast
Latitude: 68° 46′ 42” S
Longitude: 77° 56′ 53” E
Narrative
Characterised by a network of deformed dykes, in an east west orientation and forming a weaving pattern. The name of the island reflects this character of its basement geology.
The Cauldron
Location
Eastern side of the Denman.
Latitude: 66° 38’ 54” S
Longitude: 99° 23’ 39” E
Narrative
A remarkable feature, giving the immediate visual impression of a large amphitheatre located on the eastern side of the Denman Glacier approximately 1.5km south of Cape Jones, Queen Mary Land. Feature bounded in west by ice-cliffs associated with narrow glacier tongue, up to 150m wide, which has split from eastern side of Denman Glacier. In north, east and south bounded by ice-free rock associated with ice cliffs created by severe wind-scour. Floor formed by melt-water lake, ~500m long north-south and up to ~180m wide east-west, into which have toppled glacial ice fragments.
The feature was noted from the air while establishing mapping control station NMS282 in February 1986. It gives the impression of a “witch’s cauldron”.
Abatus Bay
Location
A shallow bay just north of Davis station bounded by the Vestfold Hills coast, O’Gorman Rocks, Anchorage Island, Trigwell Island and Flutter Island. The bay is approximately 1.8km long in a north east direction and 1.3km wide in a north west direction.
Latitude: 68° 33’ 47” S
Longitude: 77° 58’ 27” E
Narrative
Named in recognition of the importance and dominance of the Abatus group of invertebrate species in soft sediment benthic communities around Davis. Five species of Abatus occur in high abundance around the coastline of Davis Station, East Antarctica (A. cavernosus, A. ingens, A. nimrodi, A. philippii and A. shackletoni), at population densities of around 30 individuals per square metre in areas of suitable habitat. This bay, immediately to the north of Davis Station, supports large populations of all five Abatus species, and is typical of the sort of soft substrate habitat that occurs throughout the Prydz Bay/Davis region.
Carey Nunatak
Location
Easterly of two small nunataks on the West Ice Shelf proximate to Mikhaylov Island.
Latitude: 67° 7′ 50.01” S
Longitude: 85° 50′ 11.52” E
Narrative
Named after Samuel Warren Carey AO (born 1 November 1911 in Campbelltown; died 20 March 2002 in Hobart), an Australian geologist who was an early advocate of the theory of continental drift. He was founding professor of geology at the University of Tasmania. Carey was awarded the Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to the field of geology and appointed a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1989.
Ravich Nunatak
Location
Westerly of two small nunataks on the West Ice Shelf proximate to Mikhaylov Island.
Latitude: 67° 10′ 1.17” S
Longitude: 84° 4′ 7.92” E
Narrative
Named after M.G. Ravich (1912 — 1978), a senior Russian Antarctic geologist, active in field mapping within East Antarctica and in describing the tectonic history of Antarctica.
Utstikkar Glacier
Location
Adjacent to the Jelbart Glacier.
Latitude: 67° 32′ 44” S
Longitude: 61° 18′ 1” E
Narrative
The Utstikkar Glacier and tongue are major features adjacent to the Jelbart Glacier on the Mawson Coast west of Mawson. The Utstikkar Glacier was named by the Norwegians in about 1939. This place name differentiates the Utstikkar Glacier from the Jelbart Glacier that forms the western section of the glacier feature.
Wilkins Aerodrome
Location
Upper Petersen Glacier approximately 65km from Casey Research Station.
Latitude: 66° 41′ 27.84” S
Longitude: 111° 31′ 35.82” E
Narrative
Wilkins Aerodrome consists of a 3.5km ice runway (known as Wilkins runway), machine staging area and camp suitable to accommodate up to 10 persons during the summer. During winter the camp and machinery staging area is pack down to a winter berm and the runway is left to cover naturally with snow. It has a theoretical boundary consisting of 2km radius from the runway thresholds joined together with straight lines to form an oval or race track shape. The site moves approximately 12m south west annually. It is named after Sir Hubert Wilkins, a pioneer of Antarctic aviation and exploration.