One of a group of names in the area associated with surveying applied in 1993 by the New Zealand Geographic Board, it was named from the Cassini map projection, a cylindrical projection in which the cylinder is at right angles to the axis of the globe.
One of a group of names in the area applied in 1993 by the New Zealand Geographic Board, it was named from the Cassini map projection. This area was associated with surveying. The Cassini map projection was a cylindrical projection in which the cylinder is at right angles to the axis of the globe.