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 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Evans, A .: New Zealand Antarctic Place Names Committee . In: New Zealand Antarctic Society (Ed.): Antarctic . 5-7, 1968.
2. ↑ Breisemeister, William A .; Waugh, Douglas V .: Antarctica . Taylor & Francis, 1965, p. 98.