Name details

Wilson Pass

Wilson Pass (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Wilson Pass  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 111964

Feature type: Pass

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

running N-S at c.400m on Joerg Peninsula between Trail Inlet and Solberg Inlet, Bowman Coast, was traversed and surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1946; in association with the names of polar historians grouped in this area, named after Miss Alison Wilson, of the Center for Polar Archives, National Archives, Washington, DC, associated with Antarctic research from 1957 and a member of US ACAN from 1974, in chair from 1986 (APC, 1980, p.5; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
68° 26' 00.0" S
-68.43333°
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Longitude:
65° 15' 00.0" W
-65.25000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
21-May-1979

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