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Welcome Pass

Coordinates: 82°35′S 52°45′W / 82.583°S 52.750°W / -82.583; -52.750
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Welcome Pass (82°35′S 52°45′W / 82.583°S 52.750°W / -82.583; -52.750) is a snow pass between Cairn Ridge and Czamanske Ridge, providing access to Tranquillity Valley in the Dufek Massif, Pensacola Mountains. Named from association with Tranquillity Valley; also because during the 1976–77 season, Arthur B. Ford and Willis H. Nelson, of United States Geological Survey (USGS), on discovery of a Soviet Antarctic Expedition helicopter cache left here the previous summer, left a note of welcome to the Dufek Massif for the Soviet Antarctic Expedition party leader, Garrik Grikurov.

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