Willan Saddle
| Willan Saddle ( mountain saddle ) |
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 View from Willan Saddle of Burdick Ridge |
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| Compass direction | Northeast | southwest | |
| height | 410 m | ||
| Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 38 ′ 52 ″ S , 60 ° 16 ′ 22 ″ W | ||
The Willan Saddle ( Bulgarian седловина Виддан sedlowina Willan ) is an approximately 410 m high mountain saddle on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It runs over a length of 1000 m in a northeast-southwest orientation between Burdick Peak and Willan Nunatak .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 1997 based on the naming of the nunatak of the same name. Its namesake is Robert Charles Richard Willan (* 1959), geologist of the British Antarctic Survey and from 1985 in charge of work on the Hurd Peninsula .
Web links
- Willan Saddle in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)