Notice is hereby given of the final decisions of the New Zealand Geographic Board Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa to assign the names stated in the first column of the Schedule below to the places described in the second column of the said Schedule and that such decisions took effect on 15 May 2003.
Schedule
Bindschadler Ice Stream 81 00'S Latitude, 142 00'W Longitude. Ice stream between Siple Dome and MacAyeal Ice Stream (q.v.). One of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf. No current mapping in this area.
Burrows Glacier 78 02'S Latitude, 163 56'E Longitude. Small hanging glacier on the south side of Garwood Valley and opposite Garwood Glacier, Denton Hills, Topographic Map ST 57 60/10 Mount Discovery. Not named on current mapping.
East Antarctic Ice Sheet 80 00'S Latitude, 80 00'E Longitude. Immense ice sheet that overlies East Antarctica and is co-extensive with that subdivision of Antarctica.
Echelmeyer Ice Stream 79 10'S Latitude, 150 00'W Longitude. Ice stream flowing west to Shirase Coast to the north of MacAyeal Ice Stream (q.v.). One of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf. No current mapping in this area.
Kamb Ice Stream 82 15'S Latitude, 145 00'W Longitude. Ice stream flowing west to Siple Coast between Siple Dome and Whillans Ice Stream (q.v.). One of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf. No current mapping in this area.
MacAyeal Ice Stream 80 00'S Latitude, 143 00'W Longitude. Ice stream flowing west to the juncture of Shirase and Siple Coasts between Bindschadler Ice Stream (q.v.) and Echelmeyer Ice Stream (q.v.). One of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf. No current mapping in this area.
Mercer Ice Stream 84 50'S Latitude, 145 00'W Longitude. Ice stream flowing west to Gould Coast, located to the south of Whillans Ice Stream (q.v.). The southern-most of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf. No current mapping in this area.
Victoria Upper Glacier 77 16'S Latitude, 161 24'E Longitude. Glacier at the upper north west end of Victoria Valley, Topographic Map ST 57 60/5 Taylor Glacier. Correction from UpperVictoria Glacier, so as to be consistent with the associated Victoria Lower Glacier.
West Antarctic Ice Sheet 80 00'S Latitude, 120 00'W Longitude. Large ice sheet that overlies West Antarctica, excluding the area of Antarctic Peninsula.
Whillans Ice Stream 83 40'S Latitude, 145 00'W Longitude. Ice stream flowing west to Gould Coast, between Mercer Ice Stream (q.v.) and Kamb Ice Stream (q.v.). One of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf. No current mapping in this area.
Dated at Wellington this 26th day of June 2003.
W. K. SHAW, Secretary, New Zealand Geographic Board Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa.