French passage

French passage
Connects waters	Southern ocean
with water	Southern ocean
Separates land mass	Galíndez Island
of land mass	Grotto Island and Corner Island
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Geographical location	65 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 65 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W.

The French Passage is a sea route through the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In a north-west-south-east direction it leads past the Petermann Island , the Stray Islands , the Vedel Islands and the Myriad Islands in the north to the Argentine Islands , the Anagram Islands , the Roca Islands and the Cruls Islands in the south.

The nomination by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) was in recognition of the performance of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of the polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot , who sailed with the ship Pourquoi Pas? drove the passage for the first time.

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