Croker Passage
| Croker Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Southern ocean | |
| with water | Gerlache Strait , Southern Ocean | |
| Separates land mass | Christiania Islands and Two Hummock Island | |
| of land mass | Hoseason Island and Liège Island | |
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| Geographical location | 63 ° 57 '58 " S , 61 ° 40' 59" W | |
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The Croker Passage is a strait in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between the Christiania Islands and Two Hummock Island in the east and Hoseason Island and Liège Island in the west. It represents an entrance to the northern end of Gerlache Street .
The northern entrance was named Croker Inlet by the British navigator Henry Foster after a rough mapping, on the false assumption that it was a bay. Foster's name was later carried over to the entire sea route. It is named after John Wilson Croker (1780–1857), then Secretary of the British Admiralty .
Web links
- Croker Passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Croker Passage on geographic.org (English)