Burden Passage

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Burden Passage
MODIS satellite image of the Joinville Islands. The Burden Passage runs between the small Bransfield Island (top left) and the neighboring D'Urville Island (top center)
MODIS satellite image of the Joinville Islands . The Burden Passage runs between the small Bransfield Island (top left) and the neighboring D'Urville Island (top center)
Connects waters Bransfield Street
with water Antarctic Sound
Separates land mass Bransfield Island
of land mass D'Urville Island
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Geographical location 63 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  S , 56 ° 32 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 63 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  S , 56 ° 32 ′ 0 ″  W
Burden Passage (Antarctic Peninsula)
Burden Passage

The Burden Passage is a strait between Bransfield Island and D'Urville Island off the northeast coast of Antarctic Graham Land .

It was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 . It is named after the Canadian Eugene Moore Burden (1892–1979), who was the first to cross this sea route in January 1947 as captain of the sealer Trepassye .

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