Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Benz Pass (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Benz Pass (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Pass
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
at c. 750m between Russell West Glacier and Cugnot Ice Piedmont, Trinity Peninsula, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1960-61; in association with the names of pioneers of overland mechanical transport in this area, named after Karl Friedrich Benz (1844-1929), German engineer who constructed the first practical petrol motor-car in 1885 (APC, 1964, p.2; BAS sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974). Paso Farrel, so called by AAE after a captain in the Argentine Army (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter F).
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