The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active throughout the 1950s and 1960s.[1]
Features named by the expeditions
edit1957–1958 expedition
editThe 1957–1958 expedition went to the Ross Dependency[2] and named the Borchgrevink Glacier. Other features named include:
1958–1959 expedition
edit1960–1961 expedition
edit1961–1962 expedition
edit- Aurora Heights
- The Boil
- Ford Spur
- Graphite Peak
- Half Century Nunatak
- Half Dome Nunatak
- Hump Passage
- Last Cache Nunatak
- Lookout Dome
- Montgomerie Glacier
- Mount Fyfe
- Mount Macdonald
- Snowshoe Pass
- Turret Nunatak
1962–1963 expedition
edit- Browning Pass (remapped and named; first mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13)
1963–1964 expedition
edit- Austin Peak
- Banded Peak
- Bravo Hills
- Garden Spur
- Leap Year Glacier
- Lonely One Nunatak
- Mount Fairweather
- Mount Gawn
- Outrider Nunatak
- Sledgers Glacier
- The Tusk
1964–1965 expedition
edit1965–1966 expedition
edit1967–1968 expedition
edit1969–1970 expedition
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ Quartermain, L. B. (1971). New Zealand and the Antarctic. Wellington, New Zealand: Government Printer. OCLC 211797.
- ^ New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, June 1963.
- ^ "Carter Ridge". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
This article incorporates public domain material from "New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.