Toboggan Gap
| Toboggan Gap (notch) |
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| Compass direction | Polar plateau (west) | Pearl Harbor Glacier (East) | |
| Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Victory Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
Toboggan Gap (English for slide gap is) a notch through the Millen range in the east Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located north of Turret Peak and provides access for sled teams from the polar plateau to the firn field of the Pearl Harbor Glacier .
The naming took the southern group of the New Zealand Federated Mountain Club Antarctic Expedition (1962-1963).
Web links
- Toboggan Gap in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Toboggan Gap on geographic.org (English)