Name StatusApprovedFeatureBankNZ Gazette Reference2005 (45) p.1116DatumRSRGD2000GeoTag[1] PositionDescriptionNamed after Dr R Houtz, a marine geophysicist who carried out some of the early marine geophysical research in the Ross Sea and the Southern Oceans in the 1960s through 1980s while on the research staff of Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University.