Elliott Passage
| Elliott Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| with water | Marguerite Bay | |
| Separates land mass | Adelaide Island | |
| of land mass | Jenny Island | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 67 ° 42 ′ 40 ″ S , 68 ° 27 ′ 33 ″ W | |
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The Elliott Passage is a strait in the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It runs in a northeast-southwest direction and separates the southeast coast of Adelaide Island from Jenny Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1984 after Captain Christopher Robert Elliott (* 1945), from 1975 skipper of the research vessel RRS John Biscoe .
Web links
- Elliott passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Elliott Passage on geographic.org (English)