McCallum Pass
| McCallum Pass | |||
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| Compass direction | Northwest | southeast | |
| Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |||
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 23 ′ 40 ″ S , 68 ° 16 ′ 17 ″ W | ||
The McCallum Pass is a mountain pass in the southeast of Adelaide Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It runs between the northeast ridge of Mount Mangin and the one on the south side of Stonehouse Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 after Hugh Campbell Gordon McCallum (* 1937) of the British Antarctic Survey , who first walked this pass in 1961 together with meteorologist Alan Crouch (* 1935).
Web links
- McCallum pass the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McCallum Pass on geographic.org (English)