Goodge Col
| Goodge Col | |||
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| Compass direction | west | east | |
| Pass height | 3600 m | ||
| Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
The Goodge Col is an icy, incline-free and around 2.5 km wide mountain pass in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It runs at an altitude of 3600 m between the south side of Mount Shinn and the Vinson massif in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2006 after the US geoscientist John W. Goodge (* 1958) from the University of Minnesota , who conducted research into the development of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet between the mid-1980s and 2006 as part of the United States Antarctic Program had carried out.
Web links
- Goodge Col in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Goodge Col on geographic.org (English)