New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

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

1958–1959 expedition

1960–1961 expedition

1961–1962 expedition

1962–1963 expedition

Browning Pass (remapped and named; first mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13)

Crash Nunatak

1963–1964 expedition

1964–1965 expedition

1965–1966 expedition

Hades Terrace

1967–1968 expedition

1969–1970 expedition

See also

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee

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.

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