Kiwi passport
| Kiwi passport | |||
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 Northern part of the Churchill Mountains with the Kiwi Pass (left edge of the map) |
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| Compass direction | Northeast | southwest | |
| Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The Kiwi Pass is a high mountain pass in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It is northeast of Mount Egerton in the Churchill Mountains .
The northern group of a campaign carried out from 1960 to 1961 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition used the pass when crossing the mountains and named it after the common name for the residents of New Zealand.
Web links
- Kiwi Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kiwi Pass on geographic.org (English)