Bird Saddle
| Bird Saddle | |||
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 Map of Ross Island with Mount Bird and Mount Erebus |
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| Compass direction | west | east | |
| Pass height | 800 m | ||
| Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |||
| Map (Antarctica) | |||
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The Bird Saddle , along with the Terra Nova Saddle and the Terror Saddle, is one of the three distinctive mountain saddles on the Antarctic Ross Island . It runs at an altitude of 800 m between the 1765 m high Mount Bird in the north and the 3794 m high Mount Erebus in the south.
It is named after the mountain of the same name. Its namesake is Lieutenant Edward J. Bird of the HMS Erebus , one of the two ships in the British Antarctic Expedition (1839-1843) under the direction of James Clark Ross .
Web links
- Bird Saddle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bird Saddle on geographic.org (English)