Black Pass
Black Pass (67°40′S 67°34′W / 67.667°S 67.567°WCoordinates: 67°40′S 67°34′W / 67.667°S 67.567°W) 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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- ^ "Black Pass". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
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