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Land Notices
Notice Title

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

Publication Date
15 Nov 2024

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New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act Final determinations to assign/alter/discontinue geographic names Land Information New Zealand New Zealand Geographic Board

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2024-ln5732
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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 five Antarctic geographic feature names assigned as official or altered as described in the Schedules below.

The Board’s final determinations on these Antarctic geographic feature names took effect on 15 November 2024.

Schedule 1 – Assigned Names (4)

Official Assigned Antarctic Geographic Name

Geographic Feature Type

Coordinates (latitude, longitude)

Cayette Bluff

Bluff

-83.66049

166.52451

McMurdo Shear Zone

Shear Zone

-78.03538

168.46814

Murray Stream

Stream

-77.33363

161.62766 (source) to

-77.37745

161.79235 (mouth)

Rudolph Peak

Peak

-84.44511

176.66596

Schedule 2 – Altered Name (1)

Official Altered Antarctic Geographic Name

Geographic feature type and authority

Coordinates (latitude, longitude)

Haggitt Pillar

Rock/Sea Stack. Alteration from Haggits Pillar and improved coordinates (New Zealand Gazette, 11 May 2012, No.53, page 1477).

-67.37713

-179.91718


Dated at Wellington this 15th day of November 2024.

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