Antarctic Geographic Names




NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 177

20 OCTOBER 2005

Schedule 1

New Zealand Names for the Mount Bastion and Victoria Valley Maps, 1:25,000 Scale

Anu whakatoro Glacier
77°17′25″S Latitude, 161°42′00″E Longitude. A glacier, 1km long, between Tūkeri Peak and Spain Peak on the headwall of Ringer Valley in Saint Johns Range, Victoria Land. Topographic Map: Victoria Upper Lake (1:50,000).

Broady Valley
77°15′35″S Latitude, 161°37′00″E Longitude. A steeply inclined valley 2.5km long lying west of Lanyon Peak in Saint Johns Range, Victoria Land. The valley opens south-west to the snout of Victoria Upper Glacier. Topographic Map: Victoria Upper Lake (1:50,000).

Bryan Glacier
77°24′15″S Latitude, 160°55′45″E Longitude. A glacier that flows south from a divide with Papitashvili Valley in Apocalypse Peaks, Victoria Land. Topographic Map: Webb Lake (1:50,000).

Clegg Nunataks
77°22′36″S Latitude, 160°38′15″E Longitude. A nunatak group, 2.25km long, lying above (south-west of) Haselton Icefall in the upper part of Haselton Glacier, Willett Range, Victoria Land. Topographic Map: Webb Lake (1:50,000).

Dickenson Valley
77°19′20″S Latitude, 161°26′25″E Longitude. A valley 2km long on the west side of Nickell Peak, Cruzen Range, Victoria Land. Topographic Map: Victoria Upper Lake (1:50,000).

Edbrooke Hill
77°23′40″S Latitude, 160°38′18″E Longitude. A hill, 2100m, at the extreme west end of the Apocalypse Peaks, Victoria Land. The hill rises 100m above the adjacent plateau ice, which diverges at the hill to the north-east flowing Haselton Glacier and the east flowing Huka kapo Glacier. Topographic Map: Webb Lake (1:50,000).

Fenwick Glacier
77°16′33″S Latitude, 161°41′35″E Longitude. A glacier, 1km long, between Mount Majerus and Tūkeri Peak on the headwall of Ringer Valley, Saint Johns Range, Victoria Land. Topographic Map: Victoria Upper Lake (1:50,000).

Forsyth Peak
77°18′30″S Latitude, 161°10′22″E Longitude. A peak rising to 1500m, 3km east of Loewenstein Peak, Cruzen Range, Victoria Land. Topographic Map: Victoria Upper Lake (1:50,000).

Gabites Glacier
77°20′54″S Latitude, 160°32′30″E Longitude. A glacier on the headwall of Caffin Valley, 0.5km west of the head of Walker Glacier, in Willett Range, Victoria Land. Topographic Map: Webb Lake (1:50,000).

Greenfield Ponds
77°18′14″S Latitude, 160°51′45″E Longitude. Two ponds close together at the south end of Conrad Ledge in The Fortress, Cruzen Range, Victoria Land. Topographic Map: Webb Lake (1:50,000).

Huka kapo Glacier
77°24′12″S Latitude, 160°43′00″E Longitude. A glacier from the plateau of Willett Range, Victoria Land. It flows east from the south of Edbrooke Hill, and terminates nearly midway along the south side of Apocalypse Peaks. Topographic Map: Webb Lake (1:50,000).

Moremore Nunataks
77°18′54″S Latitude, 160°27′00″E Longitude. A nunatak group 3km long, immediately west of McSaveney Spur and Mount Bastion on the plateau of Willett Range, Victoria Land. Topographic Map: Webb Lake (1:50,000).

Mount Isaac
77°17′48″S Latitude, 161°19′30″E Longitude. A mountain 2km south-east of Mount Novak, Cruzen Range, Victoria Land. It rises to 1250m at the head of Alexander Valley, dividing the south part of the valley. Topographic Map: Victoria Upper Lake (1:50,000).

Pākira Nunatak
77°24′03″S Latitude, 160°22′47″E Longitude. A nunatak, 2400m, at the north end of Metcalf Spur on the plateau of Willett Range, Victoria Land. The nunatak is 3km north-west of Shapeless Mountain. Topographic Map: Webb Lake (1:50,000).

Pūanu Glacier
77°23′30″S Latitude, 160°58′40″E Longitude. A glacier that occupies the upper portion of Papitashvili Valley in Apocalypse Peaks, Victoria Land. Topographic Map: Webb Lake (1:50,000).

Rose Crest
77°23′31″S Latitude, 160°56′30″E Longitude. A summit (c. 2000m) at the south end of Wendler Spur in Apocalypse Peaks, Victoria Land. The crest stands between the head of Albert Valley and Papitashvili Valley. Topographic Map: Webb Lake (1:50,000).

Templeton Peak
77°17′30″S Latitude, 161°50′02″E Longitude. A peak rising to c. 1400m on the ridge between the head of Ringer Valley and Deshler Valley in Saint Johns Range, Victoria Land. The peak is 2.5km south-west of Mount Swinford. Topographic Map: Victoria Upper Lake (1:50,000).

Totoa Nunatak
77°19′17″S Latitude, 160°25′36″E Longitude. A nunatak at the south-west end of the Moremore Nunataks, 1km west of Mount Bastion, on the plateau of Willett Range, Victoria Land. Topographic Map: Webb Lake (1:50,000).

Tūkeri Peak
77°16′55″S Latitude, 161°41′31″E Longitude. A peak rising to 1400m at the head of Ringer Valley, Victoria Land. The peak stands midway between Mount Majerus and Spain Peak on the principal ridge of Saint Johns Range. Topographic Map: Victoria Upper Lake (1:50,000).

Turnbull Peak
77°23′32″S Latitude, 161°01′28″E Longitude. A peak rising to 1600m at the head of Hernandez Valley in Apocalypse Peaks, Victoria Land. Topographic Map: Victoria Upper Lake (1:50,000).



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