Kent Gap
| Kent Gap ( nick ) |
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| Queen Elizabeth Land ( West Antarctica ) | |||
| Mountains | Forrestal Range in the Pensacola Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 16 ′ 39 " S , 50 ° 38 ′ 20" W | ||
The Kent Gap is stuffed with ice notch in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it connects the May Valley with the area where the Chambers Glacier was formed and marks the watershed between the Lexington Table and Saratoga Table mountains .
It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Kenneth K. Kent, an electrical engineer at Ellsworth Station in the winter of 1957.
Web links
- Kent Gap in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kent Gap on geographic.org