A proposal to rename South Ridge on Aoraki-Mt Cook in honour of Sir Edmund Hillary, has attracted strong opposition.
Public consultation closes on November 30.
By Monday, it had attracted 36 submissions objecting to the proposal and 11 supporting.
The New Zealand Geographic Board has recommended South Ridge be renamed after Sir Edmund.
He was the first to climb the ridge in 1948, together with three others, and led by the late Harry Ayres.
The proposal is advertised for public comment.
The board will then decide whether to recommend to Land Information Minister Maurice Williamson the new name be gazetted.
There have been four submissions supporting a proposal to assign a new name, Braun-Elwert Peak, for a feature in Two Thumb Range, commemorating mountain guide Gottlieb Braun-Elwert, who died in 2008 while on a ski trip with former prime minister Helen Clark and other officials.
There are 44 proposals to assign new place names or alter existing place names.
