Forster's passage
Forster's passage | ||
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Connects waters | South Atlantic | |
with water | South Atlantic | |
Separates land mass | Bristol Island | |
of land mass | Southern Thule Islands | |
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Geographical location | 59 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 26 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Forsters Passage is a strait in the South Sandwich Islands archipelago . It separates Bristol Island from the South Thul Islands in a north-west-south-east direction .
In 1775, the British navigator James Cook mistook it for a bay and named it Forster's Bay . This name is named after the German natural scientist Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798), who accompanied Cook on his second South Sea voyage (1772–1775). Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen clarified the actual nature of the object during the course of the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821). Cook's naming has been adjusted accordingly.
Web links
- Forster's Passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Forsters Passage on geographic.org (English)