Pioneer Crossing
| Pioneer Crossing | |||
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| Compass direction | Tryne Fjord (southwest) | Langnes Fjord (northeast) | |
| Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Vestfold Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 78 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
Pioneer Crossing is a low mountain pass on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . On the Langnes Peninsula in the Vestfold Mountains , it runs from the southeast arm of the Tryne Fjord to the Langnes Fjord .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . A sled team led by the New Zealand geologist Bruce Harry Stinear (1913-2003) made it for the first time in 1957 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The name is intended to remind of this pioneering act.
Web links
- Pioneer Crossing in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pioneer Crossing on geographic.org (English)