Sulphide Pass
| Sulphide Pass | |||
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| Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Royal Society Range | ||
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The Sulphide Pass (English for Sulphide Pass ) is a mountain saddle in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range , it is 6 km east of Mount Rucker on Rucker Ridge
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1980. It is named after a band of pyrite-containing slate found here , which gives off a classic sulfur odor when mechanically processed .
Web links
- Sulphide pass the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sulphide Pass on geographic.org (English)