Bivouac Pass
| Bivouac Pass | |||
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| Compass direction | Southeast ( Wagner Piedmont Glacier ) | Northwest ( Geelan Piedmont Glacier ) | |
| Rothschild Island , West Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Desko Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 72 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
The Bivouac Pass ( English for Bivouac Pass ) is a mountain pass on Rothschild Island west of the northern end of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It is located at the western end of the Desko Mountains between Bates Peak in the southwest and Enigma Peak in the northeast. The pass offers access from the Wagner Piedmont Glacier in the southeast to the Geelan Piedmont Glacier in the northwest.
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) carried out geological work here between 1976 and 1977. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the pass in 1980 after the bivouac that BAS employees had built here in the form of a snow cave after their tent was blown away in a storm on November 28, 1976.
Web links
- Bivouac Pass in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)