Soft Snow Pass
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Pass height | 2000 m | ||
Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |||
Mountains | Victory Mountains | ||
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Coordinates | 72 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E |
The Soft Snow Pass (English for soft snow pass ) is an approximately 2000 m high mountain pass in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Victory Mountains it lies at the head of the Osuga Glacier .
A team of geologists from the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program , which worked in the area between 1981 and 1982, named the pass because of the unusually soft snow it encountered .
Web links
- Soft Snow Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Soft Snow Pass on geographic.org (English)