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unusual facts about Southern Party



Mount Balchen

Named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1961–62) for Bernt Balchen, pilot with Roald Amundsen on Arctic flights, and with Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his South Pole flight of 1929.

Richards Nunatak

Mapped and named by the Southern Party of New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1962–63, for David Richards, radio operator at Scott Base, who shared field party work and was responsible for the training of the base dog team in the absence of the base dog handler.


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Amphibole Peak

It was so named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1963–64) because minerals of the Amphibole group were found on the peak.

Aviator Nunatak

It was named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–62) for the aviators of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's flight to the South Pole in 1929.

Porthos Range

First visited in December 1956 by the ANARE southern party under W.G. Bewsher and named after Porthos, a character in Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Three Musketeers, the most popular book read on the southern journey.

Schulte Hills

Named by the southern party of New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1966–67, for Frank Schulte, geologist with this party.