New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
Series of expeditions in 1950s and 1960s
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
1957–1958 expedition
The 1957–1958 expedition went to the Ross Dependency[2] and named the Borchgrevink Glacier. Other features named include:
- Carter Ridge
- Felsite Island
- Halfway Nunatak
- Hedgehog Island
- Moraine Ridge
1958–1959 expedition
- Cadwalader Beach
- Cape Hodgson
- Carter Ridge[3]
- Isolation Point
- Mountaineer Range
- Mount Aurora
- Mount Hayward
- Mount Henderson (White Island)
- Mount Bird.
1960–1961 expedition
- Deverall Island
- Lonewolf Nunataks
1961–1962 expedition
- 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
- Browning Pass (remapped and named; first mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13)
1963–1964 expedition
- 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
1965–1966 expedition
1967–1968 expedition
1969–1970 expedition
- Bartlett Bench
- Marble Peak
- Roaring Ridge
- Surprise Spur
See also
References
- ^ 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.
