Fry Saddle
| Fry Saddle ( mountain saddle ) |
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| Compass direction | northwest | Southeast | |
| Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The Fry Saddle is a mountain pass in the form of a mountain saddle in the origin of the Fry Glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located around 6.5 km west-southwest of Mount Douglas .
It was discovered in 1957 by New Zealand surveyors as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–1958), who named it in connection with the glacier of the same name after Albert Magnus Fry (1857–1938), a Scottish chocolate producer and sponsor of the Nimrod expedition ( 1907–1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Fry Saddle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fry Saddle on geographic.org (English)