Pillow saddle
| Pillow Saddle ( notch ) |
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| Compass direction | Blue Glacier (north) | Hobbs Glacier (south) | |
| Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The Pillow Saddle is a mountain pass in the form of a notch in the Denton Hills on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is 3 km east of Hobbs Peak and allows access from Blue Glacier in the north to Hobbs Glacier to the south .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1980 after the unusual metamorphic pillow lava found here.
Web links
- Pillow Saddle in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)