Armitage saddle
| Armitage saddle | |||
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| Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The Armitage Saddle is a notch at the head of the Blue Glacier , which towers over the Howchin Glacier and the Walcott Glacier , which in turn flow down to Walcott Bay on the Koettlitz Glacier . The saddle is at the southern end of a valley in the upper section of the Blue Glacier, which the British polar explorer Albert Armitage (1864-1943) mapped in 1902 as part of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) as Snow Valley , but in the maps of the Terra -Nova-Expedition (1910–1913) was mistakenly no longer included. The New Zealand team that explored the Blue Glacier on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named it after Albert Armitage in memory of the history of the exploration.
Web links
- Armitage Saddle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Armitage Saddle on geographic.org (English)