Notice Type
Land Notices
Notice Title

Notice of Final Determinations on Assigning and Discontinuing Official Antarctic Geographic Names

Pursuant to sections 10(1), 25, and 21(2) of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008, the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (“Board”) gives notice of 76 Antarctic geographic feature names assigned as official and one discontinued name as described in the schedules below.

The Board’s final determination on these Antarctic geographic feature names took effect on 19 December 2019.

Schedule 1 – Assigned Names (76)

Official Assigned Antarctic Geographic Name Geographic Feature Type Coordinates (latitude, longitude)
Amundsen Icefall Icefall -85.4667 -166.7
Bartlett Glacier Glacier -86.42453 -154.46896
Bartlett Inlet Inlet -77.23067 -156.9357
Blackend Nunatak Nunatak -79.88556 155.0218
Blades Glacier Glacier -77.65559 -153.23143
Brack Pond Pond -78.015526 165.544884
Butler Glacier Glacier -77.42291 -154.13209
Byrd Névé Névé -81 154
Castenholz Pond Pond -78.012781 165.5518
Clark Peak Peak -77.52527 -154.18347
Conophyton Pond Pond -78.014291 165.544666
Conway Ice Ridge Ice Ridge -84.4167 -140
Conway Range Range -79.266667 159.5
Cronenwett Island Island -77 -150
Cumbie Glacier Glacier -77.229991 -154.236071
Dalton Glacier Glacier -77.58218 -152.48906
D'Angelo Bluff Bluff -87.29123 -153.554291
Darwin Mountains Range -79.85 156.25
Davis Hills Hills -86.8667 -150
Drummond Peak Peak -77.85508 -153.96636
Duet Pond Pond -78.015458 165.549377
Durham Point Point -85.535997 -151.1943
Engelhardt Ice Ridge Ice Ridge -83.3333 -146
First Facet Cliff -77.1488 162.54677
Fisher Island Island -77.09648 -154.34212
Fogg Horne Pond Pond -78.015927 165.551525
Fokker Rocks Rocks -78.074625 -155.163692
Fresh Pond Pond -78.015712 165.542916
Gerlache Inlet Inlet -74.65459 164.11561
Harbord Glacier Tongue Glacier Tongue -75.92166 162.7668
Harrison Ice Ridge Ice Ridge -79.5 -146
Heart Lake Lake -77.573712 166.261422
Kizer Island Island -77.29719 -151.06813
Klein Glacier Glacier -86.84863 -148.79714
Larson Glacier Glacier -77.51958 -154.01612
Melbert Rocks Rocks -78.030359 -155.108175
Moraine Ridge Ridge -72.29738 168.04046
Mount Albert Markham Mountain -81.39019 158.23978
Mount Aldrich Mountain -80.12498 158.23438
Mount Danforth Mountain -85.92897 -150.02326
Mount Durham Mountain -85.56499 -151.19211
Mount Early Mountain -87.0703 -153.77003
Mount Egerton Mountain -80.83557 157.92794
Mount Field Mountain -80.88461 158.02546
Mount Gardiner Mountain -86.31953 -150.9651
Mount Henderson Mountain -80.20061 156.21904
Mount Keltie Mountain -79.24481 159.49373
Mount Longhurst Mountain -79.434 157.30166
Mount McClintock Mountain -80.21605 157.44201
Mount McKercher Mountain -86.15562 -149.98454
Mount Nares Mountain -81.45 158.16667
Mount Swadener Mountain -77.27294 -153.73806
Mount Wharton Mountain -81.05209 157.80425
Mount Youngman Mountain -77.24776 -154.32373
Oliver Bluffs Bluffs -85.120240 166.630351
Orange Pond Pond -78.013862 165.555017
Organ Pipe Peaks Peaks -86.054988 -150.144155
Pond Seventy Pond -78.014804 165.5524
Poulter Glacier Glacier -86.8333 -153.5
Raymond Ice Ridge Ice Ridge -81.5833 -135
Room With A View Site -77.69901 167.18567
Salt Pond Pond -78.015985 165.545313
Second Facet Cliff -77.1852 162.28404
Shabtaie Ice Ridge Ice Ridge -80.5 -140
Skua Pond Pond -78.01328 165.551397
Starr Lake Lake -77.83692 166.680491
Strider Rock Rock -78.0333 -155.4333
Sunny Ridge Ridge -87.00882 -154.48805
Swinburne Ice Shelf Ice Shelf -77.1667 -153.9167
Talos Dome Dome -72.68174 159.15329
Taylor Dome Dome -77.72254 158.70079
Tirohanga Hukapō Peak -78.49926 163.43343
Van der Veen Ice Stream Ice Stream -84.03258 -133.39012
Vollmer Island Island -76.7333 -150.5
Wilson's Stone Igloo Historic Site -77.530646 169.296813
Withrow Glacier Glacier -77.41542 -156.51409


Schedule 2 – Discontinued Name

Discontinued Antarctic Geographic Name Geographic feature type Former authority Coordinates (latitude, longitude
Ridge Summit Ridge New Zealand Gazette, 11 May 2012, No. 53, page 1477 77°53’S 162°45’E

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of December 2019.

W. K. SHAW, Secretary, New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa.