Breakwind gap
| Breakwind gap | |||
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| Compass direction | west | east | |
| location | South Georgia | ||
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 8 '50 " S , 36 ° 50' 42" W | ||
The Breakwind Gap ( English for windbreaker gap ) is a mountain pass on South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It appears as a jagged notch between two peaks of Breakwind Ridge .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2014 based on the name of the mountain ridge of the same name. The pass is on the route that the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton took in 1916 as part of the Endurance Expedition (1914–1917) with two companions to rescue the expedition members stranded on Elephant Island . From the pass there is a steep descent to Fortuna Bay . Frank Worsley , one of the two companions next to Thomas Crean , described the pass as “a gap that arises when a tooth is extracted”.
Web links
- Breakwind gap . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)