Auster Pass

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Auster Pass (78°18′S, 162°38′E) is a high pass in the Royal Society Range, between Mount Huggins and Mount Kempe, leading into the Skelton Glacier area from McMurdo Sound. Named by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956-58) for the RNZAF Antarctic Flight's Auster aircraft.

This article incorporates text from Auster Pass, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.