Skinner Saddle
| Skinner Saddle | |||
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| Compass direction | southeast | Northwest | |
| Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The Skinner Saddle is a tall, wide and snowy mountain saddle in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains east of Mount Durnford, it lies in the northern part of the Darley Hills .
The northern group of a campaign carried out from 1960 to 1961 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition used the pass when crossing the mountains and named it. It is named after the geologist David Norman Bryant Skinner (* 1938), who was involved in this campaign.
Web links
- Skinner Saddle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skinner Saddle on geographic.org (English)