Graham Passage
| Graham Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Gerlache Street | |
| with water | Hughes Bay | |
| Separates land mass | Murray Island | |
| of land mass | Danco coast of the graham country | |
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| Geographical location | 64 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 61 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Graham Passage is a strait west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It separates Murray Island from the Danco coast of Graham Land .
The Norwegian whaling captain Sverre Skidsmo named it after his ship Graham , with which he was the first to cross this strait on March 20, 1922.
Web links
- Graham Passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Graham Passage on geographic.org (English)