Cabrales Passage
| Cabrales Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Gerlache Street | |
| with water | Argentino Canal | |
| Separates land mass | Danco Coast , Graham Land | |
| of land mass | Bruce Island | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 64 ° 54 '12 " S , 63 ° 5' 30" W | |
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| Smallest width | 800 m | |
The Cabrales Passage ( Spanish Pasaje Cabrales ; in Argentina Pasaje Trinquete ) is a 800 m wide strait off the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Leniz Point and Bruce Island and runs from the Gerlache Strait to the Argentino Canal .
Chilean scientists named it after the seaman Gaspar Cabrales (1864–1879), who died when the corvette Esmeralda sank in the sea battle off Iquique on May 21, 1879.
Web links
- Cabrales, Pasaje in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)