Isacke passage

Isacke passage
Connects waters	Crystal sound
with water	Hanusse Bay
Separates land mass	Liard Island
of land mass	Arrowsmith Peninsula
Data
Geographical location	66 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 67 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 66 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 67 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  W

The Isacke Passage is navigable strait before the Loubet coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It separates Liard Island from the Arrowsmith Peninsula and forms the eastern branch of Hanusse Bay .

Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered and mapped them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1974 after Christopher John Isacke (1930-2017) of the Royal Navy , captain of HMS Endurance in operations in the Antarctic Peninsula area from 1972 to 1974.

Web links

• Isacke Passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Isacke Passage on geographic.org (English)

Marguerite Bay Laubeuf Fjord The gullet Gunnel Channel Tickle Channel Hanusse Bay Buchanan Passage Isacke passage Crystal sound Grandidier Canal Penola Strait Lemaire Channel Butler passage Bismarck Street Gerlache Street Orléans Street Bransfield Street Antarctic Sound Prince Gustav Canal

Straits along the coast of Graham Land