Alfaro Passage
Alfaro Passage | ||
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Connects waters | Hughes Bay | |
with water | Hughes Bay | |
Separates land mass | Apéndice island | |
of land mass | Danco Coast , Graham Land | |
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Geographical location | 64 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 60 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Alfaro Passage ( Spanish Paso Alfaro ) is a strait in Hughes Bay on the Danco Coast in the west of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It runs between the coast and the offshore Apéndice island .
Participants of the 15th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1960–1961) named them after Mario Alfaro Cabrera, commander of the ship Yelcho on this research trip .
Web links
- Alfaro, Paso in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)