Bull Pass
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The Bull Pass (center) |
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Compass direction | North | south | |
Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |||
Mountains | Asgard Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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Coordinates | 77 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E |
The Bull Pass is a low mountain pass in the Olympus Range of the Transantarctic Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies between Mount Jason and Mount Orestes and connects the McKelvey Valley with the Wright Valley .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1958 to 1959 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions named him after Colin Bruce Bradley Bull (1928-2010), head of this research trip.
Web links
- Bull Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bull Pass on geographic.org (English)