Buchanan Passage
| Buchanan Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Hanusse Bay | |
| with water | Matha Street | |
| Separates land mass | Liard Island | |
| of land mass | Adelaide Island | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 66 ° 46 '47 " S , 67 ° 38' 40" W | |
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The Buchanan Passage is a strait between the Liard and Adelaide Islands at the northern end of Hanusse Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered and mapped this sea route. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1974 after Peter William Buchanan (1925-2011) of the Royal Navy , commander of the Antarctic patrol ship HMS Endurance from 1968 to 1970.
Web links
- Buchanan passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Buchanan Passage on geographic.org (English)