Bennett Saddle
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 Satellite image of the Executive Committee Range. The Bennett Saddle runs between the two lower mountains (left: Mount Waesche, right: Mount Sidley) |
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| Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |||
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 126 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
The Bennett Saddle (English for Bennett saddle ) is a snow-covered mountain pass in Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica . In the Executive Committee Range it runs between Mount Waesche and Mount Sidley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1962 after Gerard A. Bennett, who in February 1959 and from 1959 to 1960 belonged to the two teams that made the Executive Committee Range and the Marie Byrd Land for the Byrd station Surveying work traversed.
Web links
- Bennett Saddle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bennett Saddle on geographic.org (English)