Tufts Pass
| Tufts Pass ( notch ) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| Compass direction | southwest | Northeast | |
| Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |||
| map | |||
|
|||
| Coordinates | 69 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 70 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
The Tufts Pass is a mountain pass on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It lies between the Rouen Mountains in the northwest and the Elgar Uplands in the southeast.
It was first sighted and roughly mapped in 1937 during an overflight as part of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a detailed mapping in 1960 using aerial photographs taken during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) under the direction of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne . Ronne named the pass after Tufts University in Medford , Massachusetts , where the geologist and expedition member Robert Leslie Nichols (1904-1995) was a professor.
Web links
- Tufts pass the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tufts Pass on geographic.org (English)