New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

The New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Features named by the expeditions

1957–1958 expedition

The 1957–1958 expedition went to the Ross Dependency 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.

This article incorporates public domain material from "New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.