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Mount Arronax is an ice-covered, pointed peak in Antarctica .

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4-610: Black Pass ( 67°40′S 67°34′W  /  67.667°S 67.567°W  / -67.667; -67.567 ) is a pass trending northeast–southwest, 3 nautical miles (6 km) west of Mount Arronax , Pourquoi Pas Island , in northeast Marguerite Bay . It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Stanley E. Black (1933–58), a Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey meteorological assistant on Signy Island , 1957–58, and on Horseshoe Island , 1958, who, with D. Statham and G. Stride ,

8-490: Is located at 1,585 m (5,200 ft) above sea level, 6 nautical miles (11 km) west-southwest of Nautilus Head and dominating the north part of Pourquoi Pas Island , off the west coast of Graham Land . Black Pass runs northeast–southwest, 3 nautical miles (6 km) west of Mount Arronax. It was first surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill. It

12-523: Was lost between the Dion Islands and Horseshoe Island in May 1958, in a breakup of the sea ice. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from "Black Pass" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . This Fallières Coast location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mount Arronax The peak

16-741: Was resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and named after Professor Pierre Arronax , the central character in Jules Verne 's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas . A number of features on the island are named for characters in the book. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from "Mount Arronax" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey .   [REDACTED] This Fallières Coast location article

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