New Year Pass
| New Year Pass | |||
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| Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The New Year Pass ( English for New Year Pass is) a low-lying mountain pass in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Elizabeth Range of the Transantarctic Mountains , it runs between the Moore Mountains and Mount Weeks .
The New Zealand group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) used this pass on New Year's Day 1958 to get from the Marsh Glacier to January Col on the Prince Andrew Plateau above the Bowden Firnfield .
Web links
- New Year Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- New Year Pass on geographic.org (English)