Vishna Pass
| Vishna Pass ( mountain saddle ) |
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| Compass direction | North ( Evans Glacier ) | South ( Punchbowl Glacier ) | |
| height | 550 m | ||
| Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |||
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 6 ′ 5 ″ S , 62 ° 4 ′ 26 ″ W | ||
The Wischna Pass ( Bulgarian проход Вишна Prohod Wischna ) is an icy and 550 m high mountain saddle at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It separates the Poibrene Heights from the Forbidden Plateau and is 2.8 km south of Mount Bistre , 5.7 km west of the Kamenov Spur and 4.75 km north of St. Angelariy Peak . It is part of the watershed between Evans Glacier and Punchbowl Glacier .
British scientists mapped it in 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the town of Vishna in eastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Vishna Pass in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)