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Boving Island

Named by ANCA for F. Boving, third officer on MV Thala Dan in 1965, who assisted in a hydrographic survey in the vicinity.

Leckie Range, Antarctica

Named by ANCA for Squadron Leader Douglas Leckie, RAAF, who commanded the Antarctic Flight at Mawson Station, 1956, and who piloted the Auster aircraft from which Phillip Law sighted and plotted these peaks.

New Year Nunatak

So named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) because the nunatak was visited by a geological party of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition on New Year's Day of 1966.

Nicolau Chanterene

In 1522 he got a commission for a retable in Ançã limestone (a local limestone) for the Monastery of São Marcos de Tentúgal (near Coimbra).

Pagodroma Gorge

Named by ANCA after the Snow Petrels (Pagodroma nivea) which nest in the weathered sandstone walls of the gorge.

Pythagoras Peak

It was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) after Pythagoras, Greek philosopher, whose theorem concerning a right-angled triangle is well known.

Tom Walter

In his senior year of high school, Jordan had developed ANCA vasculitis, a condition that severely affected his kidneys.

Williams Rocks

The Williams Rocks were named by the ANCA for J. Williams, assistant diesel mechanic at Mawson Station in 1962, who assisted in a triangulation of the Williams Rocks and the erection of a beacon.


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