Black Pass

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Black Pass (

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67°40′S 67°34′W / 67.667°S 67.567°W / -67.667; -67.567Coordinates: 67°40′S 67°34′W / 67.667°S 67.567°W / -67.667; -67.567) is a pass trending northeast–southwest, 3 nautical miles (6 km) west of Mount Arronax, Pourquoi Pas Island, in northeast Marguerite Bay. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after (1933–58), a Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey meteorological assistant on Signy Island, 1957–58, and on Horseshoe Island, 1958, who, with and , was lost between the Dion Islands and Horseshoe Island in May 1958, in a breakup of the sea ice.[1]

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  1. ^ "Black Pass". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-07-21.

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