Johnston Passage
| Johnston Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Southern ocean | |
| with water | Southern ocean | |
| Separates land mass | Adelaide Island | |
| of land mass | Amiot Islands | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 67 ° 37 ′ 59 ″ S , 69 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Johnston Passage is a strait in the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It runs in a north-south direction and separates the southwest coast of Adelaide Island from the Amiot Islands .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1964 after Captain William Johnston (1908–1968), from 1956 to 1962 the skipper of the research vessel RRS John Biscoe .
Web links
- Johnston Passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Johnston Passage on geographic.org (English)