The glacier was named in honor of Sandra Lee, a former New Zealand Minister of Conservation, for her contribution to environmental protection in Antarctica and its surrounding waters.
In September 2006 Lee was appointed to the board of Housing New Zealand.
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Of notability, Max Mathews, considered by many to be the founding father of computer music, used among others, a DDP-224 and a DDP-24 computer to develop his GROOVE music system, as related by Professor Barry Vercoe in a 1999 MIT Media Lab interview.
Adam Lovell was born in Brisbane and comes from a background in circus and theater while Paul Vercoe was born in rural Victoria and has classical training in piano and choirs.
By the time he entered public consciousness with Updown Court, Allen-Vercoe owned 42 private companies in the UK, flew a Jet Ranger helicopter, had assets including forests in Russia, coal mines in Ukraine, land in Latvia and Lithuania and estimated that his net worth was 'safely in excess of £50 million', despite not appearing on any of the many Rich Lists published each year.