Warden Pass
| Warden Pass | |||
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| Compass direction | east | west | |
| Pass height | 1000 m | ||
| Coatsland , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 27 ′ 58 ″ S , 28 ° 19 ′ 59 ″ W | ||
The Warden Pass is an east-west oriented, around 1000 m high and snow-covered mountain pass in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Shackleton Range , it runs along the northwest side of the Fuchs Dome and the Flat Top .
Participants in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) surveyed this area in 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the pass in 1972 after the British geodesist Michael Anthony Warden (* 1946), who worked from 1970 to 1972 at Halley Station and in the meantime in the Shackleton Range.
Web links
- Warden Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Warden Pass on geographic.org (English)