New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
- New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
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New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board plus selected specialists on Antarctica. This committee works in collaboration with similar place-naming authorities in Australia, Great Britain and the United States to reach concurrence on each decision.[1] The NZ-APC committee was established in 1956.[2]
References
- ^ Breisemeister, William A.; Waugh, Douglas V. (1965). Antarctica. Taylor & Francis. p. 98.
- ^ Evans, A. (1968). "New Zealand Antarctic Place Names Committee". Antarctic (New Zealand Antarctic Society) 5–7.
Further reading
- Hattersley-Smith, G. (1980). "Current sources of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic place-names". Polar Record 20: 72–78. doi:10.1017/S0032247400003004.
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