Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Orpheus Pass (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Orpheus Pass (The name as it would appear on a map)
If this information is incorrect, please e-mail mapping@aad.gov.au
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:
Pass, approx. 250 m wide, NE of Pliska Ridge and S of Burdick Peak, rising approx. 560 m.a.s.l, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands. The name Orpheus was originally applied by Bulgaria to a neighbouring peak in 1995, but due to priority of the existing name Willan Nunatak, was changed to the present feature. (APC, 1997).
No images of this place could be found.
Biodiversity
View
fauna,
flora or
both
within 1.0 degree of this location
Place names
View
British or
international
place names within 1.0 degree of this location.