Bowling Green Col
| Bowling Green Col | |||
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| Compass direction | east | west | |
| Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |||
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The Bowling Green Col is a snowy mountain pass in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cook Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains , it runs in an east-west direction between the Reeves Plateau in the north and the Bowling Green Plateau in the south .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain pass in connection with the naming of the plateau of the same name . Its namesake is the Bowling Green State University in Ohio , alma mater of the US geologist Charles C. Rich (* 1922), deputy head of the 1962 to 1963 campaign as part of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expeditions .
Web links
- Bowling Green Col in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bowling Green Col on geographic.org (English)