Wilson Portal (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Wilson Portal (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Pass (2a)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A peak about 1200m high, surmounting a rock exposure facing north along the south-west edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, at the west side of the terminus of Kosco Glacier. Discovered and photographed by the USASE, 1939-41, on Flight C of 29 February - 1 March 1940, and surveyed by AP Crary in 1957/58. Named by Crary for Charles R Wilson, chief aurora scientist at Little America V in 1958/59 and chief glaciologist of the US Victoria Land Traverse Party in 1958/59.
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