What name would you like to give an Antarctic landmark?

2:36 PM Friday Jul 4, 2008

The search is on for new names of Antarctic geographical features to be gazetted next year.

At the Annual Antarctic Conference in Dunedin, a significant new mapping project over a large area to the south of Ross Island, with naming rights, was made public for the first time.

New Zealand Geographic Board secretary Wendy Shaw says New Zealand last did considerable mapping in Antarctica about 50 years ago.

What name would you like to give an Antarctic landmark? Here is the latest selection of Your Views:

Gail Newcomb (New Zealand) | 09:14AM Wednesday, 02 Jul 2008

I would like something named Newcomb in memory of Philip Newcomb who was awarded Us soldier's Medal for bravery for fighting a C124 Globemaster fire at McMurdo in 1957 while serving on Operation Deep Freeze with the USAF.

Eric West (Takapuna) | 11:48AM Wednesday, 02 Jul 2008

I would hope that there was room to remember the likes of Peter Mulgre and some of the others who died on Erebus. And, for that matter, some of the Police and CAA team who had the job of cleaning it up and investigating it. Although they disagreed, both Judge Peter Mahon and Ron Chippendale did fine work, which could well be remembered in this way

ARU (Auckland Central) | 03:02PM Wednesday, 02 Jul 2008

Apart from key people who have contributed to our understanding of Antarctica, landmarks should be named after flora and fauna in the area.