New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC, German: New Zealand's Committee for Antarctic Place Names ) is a commission of experts founded in 1956 , which is dedicated to the naming of geographical objects in the Ross Dependency in Antarctica . The panel is comprised of members of the New Zealand Geographic Board and other selected professionals who work in coordination with appropriate committees in Australia , the United Kingdom and the United States .
See also
- New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
- Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions
- Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
- UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
literature
- G. Hattersley-Smith: Current sources of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic place-names . In: Polar Record . 20, 1980, pp. 72-78. doi : 10.1017 / S0032247400003004 .