Widowmaker Pass
| Widowmaker Pass | |||
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| Compass direction | Northeast | southwest | |
| Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
The Widowmaker Pass (English for Widowmaker Pass ) is a mountain pass near the Scott Coast in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It leads between Mount Janetschek and Mount Gerlache from the Larsen Glacier to the Reeves Glacier . The pass is characterized by glacier ice, which is criss-crossed by numerous and often covered crevasses .
Participants in a campaign run from 1962 to 1963 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it that way to highlight the risk involved in visiting this pass.
Web links
- Widowmaker Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Widowmaker Pass on geographic.org (English)