Minna Saddle
| Minna Saddle ( mountain saddle ) |
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 Map of Mount Discovery, Minna Bluff and the Minna Saddle in between (center right) |
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| Compass direction | Northeast ( Ross Ice Shelf ) | Southwest ( Eady Piedmont Glacier ) | |
| Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 165 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The Minna Saddle is a striking, snowy and several kilometers long and wide mountain saddle on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It runs between the eastern slopes of Mount Discovery and the Minna Bluff peninsula .
The New Zealand team of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named him based on the name of the Minna Bluff. Its namesake is Mary Anne Isabella Caroline "Minna" Markham (1837–?), Wife of Clements Markham , the "gray eminence" of British polar research.
Web links
- Minna Saddle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Minna Saddle on geographic.org (English)