Butler passage

Butler passage
Connects waters	Peltier channel
with water	Lemaire Channel
Separates land mass	Wauwerman's Islands
of land mass	Puzzle Islands
Data
Geographical location	65 ° 2 '25 "  S , 63 ° 18' 44"  W Coordinates: 65 ° 2 '25 "  S , 63 ° 18' 44"  W

The Butler Passage is a strait in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It separates the Wauwermans Islands from the Puzzle Islands and connects the Peltier and Lemaire channels .

The French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot was probably the first to use this sea route on his two Antarctic expeditions ( 1903–1905 and 1908–1910 ) on the way between Port Lockroy and Booth Island . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the strait in 1959 after Adrian R. L. Butler, captain of the HMS Protector , with whose help the Royal Navy's hydrographic survey unit surveyed the strait from 1957 to 1958.

Web links

• Butler Passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Butler Passage on geographic.org (English)

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Straits along the coast of Graham Land