Bloor passage
| Bloor passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Meek channel | |
| with water | Southern ocean | |
| Separates land mass | Corner Island , Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| of land mass | Uruguay Island , Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 65 ° 14 ′ 26 ″ S , 64 ° 14 ′ 16 ″ W | |
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The Bloor Passage is a strait off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It separates the Wilhelm Archipelago , starting from Meek Channel to the north, the island Corner Iceland from Uruguay Island , both for the group of Argentine islands belong.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the passage in 1959 after Able Seaman Vincent Thomas Bloor (* 1933) of the Royal Navy , a member of the British Hydrographic Surveying Unit, which was active in the area between 1957 and 1958.
Web links
- Bloor Passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bloor Passage on geographic.org (English)