Richthofen Pass
| Richthofen Pass ( notch ) |
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| Compass direction | West ( Target Hill ) | East ( Borchgrevink-Nunatak ) | |
| Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |||
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 0 ′ 40 " S , 62 ° 41 ′ 18" W | ||
The Richthofen Pass is a 1.5 km wide mountain pass on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It runs between Mount Fritsche and a rock wall north of McCarroll Peak .
Participants of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld discovered and photographed it in 1902. Nordenskjöld thought the formation was a valley and named it after the German geographer and geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905). The real nature of a mountain pass was revealed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955.
Web links
- Richthofen Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Richthofen Pass on geographic.org (English)