Wright Pass
| Wright Pass | |||
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 Bear Peninsula topographic map with Wright Pass |
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| Compass direction | north | south | |
| Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |||
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
The Wright Pass is a snowy mountain pass on the Walgreen Coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd lands . On the Bear Peninsula , it runs west of the Jones Bluffs in a north-south direction over a length of 5 km between the mouth of the Holt Glacier and Mayo Peak .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1977 after Petty Officer William L. Wright of the US Navy, who participated in seven campaigns for Operation Deep Freeze until 1977 involved and was responsible, among other things, for the transport of material across the McMurdo Sound to the Antarctic dry valleys .
Web links
- Wright pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wright Pass on geographic.org (English)