Welcome pass
| Welcome pass | |||
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| Compass direction | Northeast | southwest | |
| Pass height | 800 m | ||
| Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |||
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 34 '59 " S , 52 ° 45' 0" W | ||
The Welcome Pass (English for Welcome Pass ) is a 800 m high and snowy mountain pass with northeast-southwest orientation in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Dufek massif of the Pensacola Mountains , it runs between the Cairn Ridge and the Czamanske Ridge to the Tranquility Valley .
The name of the pass is derived from the incident in which the US geologists Arthur B. Ford and Willis H. Nelson (1920–2010) received a message of welcome for their Soviet colleague Garrik during a campaign carried out by the United States Geological Survey from 1976 to 1977 E. Grikurow (* 1934) left behind.
Web links
- Welcome Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Welcome Pass on geographic.org (English)