Kista Strait
| Kista Strait | ||
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| Connects waters | Holme Bay | |
| with water | Holme Bay | |
| Separates land mass | Mawson Coast , Mac Robertson Land | |
| of land mass | Flat Islands and Jocelyn Islands | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 67 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kista Strait is a strait between the Mawson Coast of the east Antarctic Mac Robertson Land and the offshore Flat Islands and the Jocelyn Islands .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it based on aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 , but left it unnamed. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1961 after the transport ship Kista Dan , which had sailed the strait in 1954 on the way to the construction of the Mawson station .
Web links
- Kista Strait in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kista Strait on geographic.org (English)