Posted 21st June 2015 to the Fiordland Advocate Newspaper Te Anau NZ.
In 2009 there was a call for ideas to Mark the International Year of Astronomy, as it played out the Kepler Mountains between Lake Manapouri and Lake Te Anau ended up playing a big part in this event as they became home to the Great New Zealand Names in the field of Astronomy Beatrice Hill-Tinsley who gave us the infinite Universe and Sir William Hayward Pickering who was the man in charge of exploring our Solar System and Getting NASA of the ground so to speak. There was one more Great Kiwi Astronomer who was up for a place in the Kelper Mountains but as he was still alive at the Time the NZ Geographic Board Rules excluded him from having any landform named after him. Brian Harold Mason who was a leader in the study of Meteorites & Mineralogy
Was also the Curator of the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institute and received many other honors and metals for his Life’s Work.
Brian actually died on the very last month of the That Year of Astronomy so today he is now eligible for a place in the Kepler Mountains.
I had a hand in suggesting Mt Pickering and Mt Tinsley and in my opinion Mr Mason should be given the “Crater like” Circe Lake on top of the Jackson Peaks
because of it’s amazing outlook and accessibility. But it would be nice if someone else could put in the submission on this proposal.
In 2009 there was a call for ideas to Mark the International Year of Astronomy, as it played out the Kepler Mountains between Lake Manapouri and Lake Te Anau ended up playing a big part in this event as they became home to the Great New Zealand Names in the field of Astronomy Beatrice Hill-Tinsley who gave us the infinite Universe and Sir William Hayward Pickering who was the man in charge of exploring our Solar System and Getting NASA of the ground so to speak. There was one more Great Kiwi Astronomer who was up for a place in the Kelper Mountains but as he was still alive at the Time the NZ Geographic Board Rules excluded him from having any landform named after him. Brian Harold Mason who was a leader in the study of Meteorites & Mineralogy
Was also the Curator of the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institute and received many other honors and metals for his Life’s Work.
Brian actually died on the very last month of the That Year of Astronomy so today he is now eligible for a place in the Kepler Mountains.
I had a hand in suggesting Mt Pickering and Mt Tinsley and in my opinion Mr Mason should be given the “Crater like” Circe Lake on top of the Jackson Peaks
because of it’s amazing outlook and accessibility. But it would be nice if someone else could put in the submission on this proposal.
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