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The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
. 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 The Ross Dependency is a region of Antarctica defined by a circular sector, sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160th meridian east, 160° east to 150th meridian west, 150° west, and terminating at latitude 60th para ...
and named the Borchgrevink Glacier. Other features named include: * Carter Ridge * Felsite Island * Halfway Nunatak * Hedgehog Island * Moraine Ridge


1958–1959 expedition

* Cadwalader Beach * Cape Hodgson * Carter Ridge * Isolation Point * Mountaineer Range * Mount Aurora * Mount Hayward * Mount Henderson (White Island) * Mount Bird.


1960–1961 expedition

* Deverall Island * Lonewolf Nunataks


1961–1962 expedition

* Aurora Heights * The Boil * Ford Spur * Graphite Peak * Half Century Nunatak * Half Dome Nunatak * Hump Passage * Last Cache Nunatak * Lookout Dome * Montgomerie Glacier * Mount Fyfe * Mount Macdonald * Snowshoe Pass * Turret Nunatak


1962–1963 expedition

* Browning Pass (remapped and named; first mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13) * Crash Nunatak


1963–1964 expedition

* Austin Peak * Banded Peak * Bravo Hills * Garden Spur * Leap Year Glacier * Lonely One Nunatak *
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* Mount Gawn * Outrider Nunatak * Sledgers Glacier * The Tusk


1964–1965 expedition

* Moody Nunatak * Mount Gregory * Mount Hayter * Turbidite Hill


1965–1966 expedition

* Hades Terrace


1967–1968 expedition

* Champness Glacier * Graduation Ridge * Dow Peak * Moawhango Névé * Ian Peak


1969–1970 expedition

* Bartlett Bench * Marble Peak * Roaring Ridge * Surprise Spur


See also

* New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee


References

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