Echo Pass

Echo Pass is a pass, 1,000 feet in elevation, lying a mile and a half south-west of Grytviken on South Georgia, running between Sphagnum Valley and Junction Valley.

The pass cuts through the chain of mountains which extends south-west from Mount Hodges and provides a ski route from the station at Grytviken to the head of Cumberland West Bay.

From Echo Pass, the Junction Valley slopes eastward to Hestesletten, connecting the two, hence its own name.

The name 'Echo Pass' was used by whalers on South Georgia, and first appears on a chart produced by the German expedition in 1928–29, under Kohl-Larsen, who states that the name was already in use by whalers.

Location

• Location map: 54°17’29"S, 36°32’55"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Echo Pass