Paso Saravia
| Paso Saravia | |||
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| Queen Elizabeth Land ( West Antarctica ) | |||
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 39 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
The Paso Saravia is a mountain pass crossed by crevasses in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . It offers access from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf to the polar plateau around 300 km south of the Argentinean Belgrano II station .
Argentine scientists used it for a traverse from 1964 to 1965 from the Belgra II station to the geographic South Pole . It is named after César Cao Saravia (1918–1988), who contributed to the financing of the company through an appeal for donations in the city of Salta .
Web links
- Saravia, paso in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)