Crosse Passage
| Crosse Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Adelaide Anchorage | |
| with water | Southern ocean | |
| Separates land mass | Henkes Islands | |
| of land mass | Skeen Rocks | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 67 ° 46 ′ 59 ″ S , 68 ° 54 ′ 58 ″ W | |
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The Crosse Passage is a small strait in the group of Adelaide and Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It runs before the southern end of Adelaide Island from Adelaide Anchorage in a south-easterly direction between the Henkes Islands and the Skeen Rocks .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1963 after Lieutenant Commander Anthony Grant Crosse (* 1927) of the Royal Navy , first officer on the HMS Protector in the service of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office to map this area between 1961 and 1963.
Web links
- Crosse passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crosse Passage on geographic.org (English)