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在紐西蘭，山名、地名、街道名....常以科學家來命名。

南島西側的帕帕羅瓦山脈(Paparoa Mountain Range)可以稱做科學之山。

最早是地質學家 Julius Haast 在1860s把最南的命名為Mt Davy，最北的命名為Buckland Peak，最高的為 Mt Faraday(1485m) 。

1970s,地質學家Simon Nathan接續以科學家命名各山頭，包括 Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish astronomer), Marie Curie (Polish physicist), Humphry Davy (English chemist), Albert Einstein (German physicist), Euclid (Greek mathematician), Michael Faraday (English physicist), Alexander Fleming (Scottish physician), Galileo Galilei (Italian astronomer), William Kelvin (Scottish physicist), Oliver Lodge (British physicist), Louis Pasteur (French biologist), Joseph Priestley (British chemist), Antoine Lavoisier (French chemist), Gregor Mendel (Czech geneticist) and Ernest Rutherford (New Zealand nuclear physicist).

參考資料：http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article020102.html

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