Woerner Gap
| Wörner Gap (mountain saddle) |
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 View over the Wörner Gap to Bowles Ridge |
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| height | 550 m | ||
| Perunika Glacier (West) | Huron Glacier (East) | ||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 37 ′ 58 ″ S , 60 ° 12 ′ 37 ″ W | ||
Wörner Gap ( Bulgarian седловина Вьорнер sedlowina Wjorner , German 'Wörner saddle' , in the United Kingdom Aurora Gap ) is a 550 m high mountain saddle on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . This mountain pass is located 2 km northeast of the Plíska Ridge on the watershed between the Perunika and Huron glaciers .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named him in 1995 after the German politician Manfred Wörner (1934–1994), who was NATO Secretary General from 1988 until his death . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the Bulgarian name to English in 1996. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the Aurora , ship of two Antarctic expeditions.
Web links
- Wörner Gap in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wörner Gap on geographic.org (English)