Hiegel Passage
| Hiegel Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| with water | Penney Bay | |
| Separates land mass | Ardery Island | |
| of land mass | Holl Island and Ford Island | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 66 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Hiegel Passage is a strait in the group of Windmill Islands off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland. It is located between Ardery Island in the north and Holl Island and Ford Island in the south.
Aerial photographs of the US operation Highjump (1946–1947) and Operation Windmill (1947–1948) were used to map them. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1963 after James A. Hiegel (1919-1998), head of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion One , who had overseen the construction of Wilkes Station in February 1957.
Web links
- Hiegel passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hiegel Passage on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the Windmill Islands (PDF, March 2009) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)