IHO-IOC GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names
The 31st International Symposium of SCUFN, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 - 27 Oct 2018
The undersea feature names shown on sheets and products of GEBCO and Regional International Bathymetric Charts (IBC) projects, and on international (INT) nautical charts are selected by the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN).
The role of SCUFN is to maintain and make available the names information in the form of a digital gazetteer. SCUFN meets once a year to select the names used for undersea features, review naming guidelines, and to consider and decide on names which have been submitted to the Sub-Committee. The Secretariat of SCUFN is at the International Hydrographic Bureau, Monaco, where the gazetteer database is maintained.
The 31st SCUFN meeting is jointly hosted by The New Zealand Geographic Board, NIWA and GNS Science in Wellington, New Zealand. The meeting will be held at the Te Wharewaka Function Centre, 2 Taranaki St, Wellington.
Conference Location
Te Wharewaka Function Centre
2 Taranaki St, Wellington
The meeting is from Tuesday the 23rd to Saturday the 27th of October 2018. It will begin with a traditional Māori welcome at Te Wharewaka venue Tuesday morning at 9.00 am.
An Ice Breaker event (Monday 22nd October 2018) is at the Arborist and the symposium dinner (Thursday 25th October 2018) is at the Mac's Brewery
The New Zealand Gazetteer
The New Zealand Gazetteer has all official and most recorded names for geographic and undersea features within the jurisdiction of the New Zealand Geographic Board.