Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Orpheus Pass (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Orpheus Pass (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Pass (2e)
This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A 250m wide pass bounded to the SE by Pliska Ridge and to the NW by Burdick Ridge, Livingston Island. Midpoint located 6.1km E of Sinemorets Hill. Elevation just over 560m. Part of an overland route from Balkan Snowfield via Willan Saddle and Orpheus Pass to Mount Friesland and upper Perunika Glacier areas. Orpheus is a name of world and national culture originally applied in 1995 to a nearby peak but subsequently transferred due to prioriry of the existing British name form Willan Nunatak.
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