What name would you like to give an Antarctic landmark?

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: Eric West (Takapuna) 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,... [read full story]