🏔️ Khamsin Pass

Antarctica · Antarctica · 69.48°S, 67.75°W

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Khamsin Pass is a pass at 750 metres (2,460 ft), running north–south between the Relay Hills and the Kinnear Mountains, southward of the Wordie Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. An important pass used by the British Graham Land Expedition, 1936–37, and subsequent parties, it allows easy access from the Wordie Ice Shelf into Palmer Land. It was named in 1977 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in association with other wind names in the area, khamsin being the warm southerly wind in Egypt that comes from the Sahara.

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Quick facts

CountryAntarctica
Continent / regionAntarctica
Coordinates (approx.)69.48°S, 67.75°W · view on map

Khamsin Pass is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

More mountain passes in Antarctica

Anare Pass · Arena Saddle · Armitage Saddle · Auster Pass · Benighted Pass · Benz Pass · Bigend Saddle · Black Pass · Brattskarvbrekka Pass · Brawhm Pass.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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