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Wright Pass (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Wright Pass (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Pass (2e)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
A snow pass to the W of Jones Bluffs, running N-S for 3 mi between the terminus of Holt Glacier and the vicinity of Mayo Peak, Bear Peninsula on the Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by USGS from USN aerial photographs taken 1966. Named by US-ACAN in 1977 after Petty Officer William L. Wright, USN, who completed six OpDFrz deployments up to 1977. As Leading Petty Officer (Transportation Operations), he conducted cargo traverses across the ice of McMurdo Sound to the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
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