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:
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)
1963–1964 expedition
1964–1965 expedition
1965–1966 expedition
1967–1968 expedition
1969–1970 expedition
See also
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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