Terra Nova Saddle
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 Map of Ross Island with Mount Erebus and Mount Terra Nova |
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| Compass direction | north | south | |
| Pass height | 1400 m | ||
| Ross Island ( Ross Islands , Antarctica ) | |||
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The Terra Nova Saddle is next to the Bird Saddle and the Terror Saddle one of the three distinctive mountain saddles on the Antarctic Ross Island . It runs at an altitude of around 1400 m between the 3794 m high Mount Erebus in the west and the 2130 m high Mount Terra Nova in the east.
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2001 based on the neighboring mountain of the same name.
Web links
- Terra Nova Saddle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Terra Nova Saddle on geographic.org (English)