Bigend Saddle
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| Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Herbert Range in the Queen Maud Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
The Bigend Saddle is a snowy mountain pass in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the northern part of the Herbert Range of the Queen Maud Mountains, it lies between the southwest side of Mount Betty and a rock spur that extends from Mount Cohen in a westerly direction.
The mountain pass was first used in December 1929 by the team around the US geologist Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995) on the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930). The southern group of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1963-1964) named it so because they had to leave behind one of their motorized toboggan slides with a broken connecting rod bearing ( English bigend baring ).
Web links
- Bigend Saddle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bigend Saddle on geographic.org (English)