Venus Valley

Status

• New name for a feature not named on current mapping.
• This name proposal was published in the New Zealand Gazette, newspapers and the 14 May 2009 NZGB public notice of decisions.

Description

Valley north of Terror Cove, along the coastal margin around the creek proposed to be named Seeligers Creek, and around the site of the place marked as ‘German expedition’ on topographic map 260-Auckland Islands, GR 032 146.

Report

You can read the Venus Valley place name report (pdf 1.90MB - also available in HTML), which was considered by the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) at its meeting on 27 March 2009.  The report includes a printable map.

Consultation

The consultation period ended 5pm 19 June 2009.

Map

For a larger scale version of this map please refer to the pdf version of the Venus Valley place name report (pdf 1.90MB).