Browning Pass
| Browning Pass | |||
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 Map sheet Mount Melbourne with the Browning Pass (left of center) |
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| Compass direction | Southwest ( Priestley Glacier ) | Northeast ( Campbell Glacier ) | |
| Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The Browning Pass is an icy mountain pass , between the Deep Freeze Range and the Northern Foothills north of Terra Nova Bay in the East Antarctic Victoria Land runs. The pass connects the lower section of the Priestley Glacier with the Campbell Glacier over a distance of around 15 kilometers .
It was first mapped as a section of the Campbell Glacier by participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . More precise measurements of the area were carried out by the southern group of from 1962 to 1963 carried out the campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition who named it after Frank Vernon Browning (1882-1930), a participant of the Terra Nova Expedition.
Web links
- Browning Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Browning Pass on geographic.org (English)