15 MAY 2008 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 84

Westland/Otago Land Districts

Mount Clark

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Mountain at height 2450m, located on the Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, between the Landsborough and Hopkins Rivers, topographic map 260-H37 Tasman, GR 558 011. Spelling alteration from Mount Clarke.

New Zealand Undersea Feature Names to be Removed

Norman Rocks
47°43.17′S Latitude, 178°57.10′E Longitude. Formerly underwater rocks, 6.5km north-west of the Bounty Islands. Recorded as Norman Rocks on earlier charts but the feature no longer exists. Hydrographic Chart NZ 3111. Norman Rocks removed from the latest chart.

Rosario Rock
47°48.96′S Latitude, 178°58.50′E Longitude. Formerly underwater rock, 7.5km south-west of the Bounty Islands. Recorded as Rosario Rock on earlier charts but the feature no longer exists. Hydrographic Chart NZ 3111. Rosario Rock removed from the latest chart.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of May 2008.

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

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Notice of Final Decisions to Assign Place Names in the Ross Sea Region, Antarctica

Notice is hereby given of the final decisions of the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa to assign the place names stated in the first column of Schedules 1 and 2 below, to the places described in the second column of the said Schedules; and to revise the place name stated in the first column of Schedule 3 below, to the place described in the second column of the said Schedule; and that such decisions take effect on the date of the New Zealand Gazette containing this notice.

Schedule 1
New Zealand Names

Barrett Glacier
84°37′S Latitude, 174°10′W Longitude. A glacier about 30km long, flowing from the vicinity of Mount Llano, north-west and then north-north-east to the Ross Ice Shelf. Lying immediately east of the Massam Glacier. Topographic map: SV 1-10/1 Shackleton Glacier (1:250,000). Not previously notified in the New Zealand Gazette, but published in the 4th Supplement to the Provisional Gazetteer of the Ross Dependency, dated c.1964.

Blorenge Buttress
76°43′S Latitude, 161°21′E Longitude. A very prominent, orange coloured pillar of Beacon sandstone, 4km west of the summit of Flagship Mountain, Convoy Range, Victoria Land. The pillar is flanked to the west by steep blue ice and a huge windscoop from Flight Deck Névé, and rises sheer from a large ice-free area to the north. Topographic map: Flagship Mountain (1:50,000). Not previously notified in the New Zealand Gazette, but approved in 1977.

Drifter Cirque
76°35′S Latitude, 161°02′E Longitude. A cirque between Mount Schmidtman and Mount Naab at the north-east end of Eastwind Ridge, Convoy Range, Victoria Land. Topographic map: Flagship Mountain (1:50,000). Not previously notified in the New Zealand Gazette but approved in 1993.

Holystone Slope
76°46′S Latitude, 161°20′E Longitude. A shallow, blue-ice distributory overflow from Flight Deck Névé, 2.5km wide, that flows north-west over subdued steps between Dotson Ridge and Dory Nunatak, Victoria Land. Topographic map: Alatna Valley (1:50,000). Not previously notified in the New Zealand Gazette but approved in 1993.

Low Nunatak
77°04′25″S Latitude, 161°57′00″E Longitude. A nunatak in the Cotton Glacier 4km north of the western end of Killer Ridge, Gonville and Caius Range, Victoria Land. About 1.5km long, the nunatak rises 50m above the surrounding ice surface to about 450m above sea level. Topographic map: Mount Mahony (1:50,000). Not previously notified in the New Zealand Gazette.

The Cocked Hat
77°15′S Latitude, 162°45′E Longitude. A bluff-type mountain rising to 1100m, 6km south-west of Lizards Foot in Saint Johns Range, Victoria Land. Topographic map: Debenham Glacier (1:50,000). Not previously notified in the New Zealand Gazette, but published in the Provisional Gazetteer of the Ross Dependency, dated 1958, as a 1910-1913 British Antarctic Expedition name.

Tillergone Slope
76°44′S Latitude, 161°24′E Longitude. A shallow, blue ice glacial slope or overflow, 3km wide, which is a distributary of Flight Deck Névé over subdued steps between Dotson Ridge and Flagship Mountain, in Convoy Range, Victoria Land. Topographic maps: Flagship Mountain and Alatna Valley (1:50,000). Not previously notified in the New Zealand Gazette but approved in 1993.

Schedule 2
United States of America Names

Bachtold Glacier
77°07′30″S Latitude, 162°00′00″E Longitude. Glacier flowing north from Mount Chaudoin, Gonville and Caius Range, into the lower part of Cotton Glacier, Victoria Land. The glacier drains the broad slopes between Killer Ridge and Red Ridge. Topographic maps: Mount Mahony and Debenham Glacier (1:50,000).