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5:00AM Wednesday July 02, 2008 By Angela Gregory Forget Windy Gully, Hillary Coast and even Sponsors Peak - they're taken. Now 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 yesterday. New Zealand Geographic Board secretary Wendy Shaw told the Herald New Zealand last did considerable mapping in Antarctica about 50 years ago, so it was well overdue. Mrs Shaw said satellite imagery would be trialled in the new area to be mapped, the Darwin and Hatherton glacier system. Previously, mapping had involved expensive aerial photography. Mrs Shaw said names would be needed for newly identified features such as... [read full story]
