Hawes Col

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Hawes Col
Compass direction west east
Signy Island , South Orkney Islands
Mountains Gneiss Hills
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Hawes Col (South Orkney Islands)
Hawes Col
Coordinates 60 ° 43 '32 "  S , 45 ° 38' 32"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 43 '32 "  S , 45 ° 38' 32"  W.

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The Hawes Col is a mountain pass on Signy Island in the archipelago of the Southern Orkney Islands . In the Gneiss Hills it lies between the North Gneiss and the South Gneiss .

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys in 1947 and 1950. Aerial photographs were taken in 1968 by the Royal Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2004. It is named after Ian Hawes, limnologist for the British Antarctic Survey on Signy Island in 1979, 1980 and 1984.

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