Ernesto Pass
| Ernesto Pass | |||
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| Compass direction | Right Whale Bay (north) | Morsa Bay (south) | |
| Pass height | 360 m | ||
| location | South Georgia | ||
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 1 '49 " S , 37 ° 43' 54" W | ||
The Ernesto Pass is a mountain pass in the north-western part of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It connects Morsa Bay in the south with Right Whale Bay on the north coast.
On a 1931 British Admiralty map , a glacier in this area is shown as Don Ernesto Glacier . It is named after the whaling ship Don Ernesto of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca . The South Georgia Survey determined during measurements between 1955 and 1956 that this glacier was only rudimentary. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the naming of the glacier to the pass described here in a modified form in 1957.
Web links
- Ernesto Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ernesto Pass on geographic.org (English)