Akela Col
| Akela Col | |||
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| Compass direction | southwest | Northeast | |
| Pass height | 500 m | ||
| James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |||
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 55 ′ 6 ″ S , 58 ° 10 ′ 25 ″ W | ||
The Akela Col is a shallow rising 400 and no 500 m high pass in the northwest of the West Antarctic James Ross Island . It is 4 km south of Rink Point between Virgin Hill and Kipling Mesa . It is the only connection between Whiskey Bay and an unnamed bay east of Lagrelius Point .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the passport in 2006 after the wolf Akela from The Jungle Book after Rudyard Kipling from 1894.
Web links
- Akela Col in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)