Klimasch Passage
| Klimasch Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Drake Street | |
| with water | Drake Street | |
| Separates land mass | Table Island , Bowler Rocks | |
| of land mass | Morris Rock , Chaos Reef , Aitcho Islands | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 62 ° 21 '25 " S , 59 ° 47' 50" W | |
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| Smallest width | 1.9 km | |
The Klimasch Passage ( Bulgarian проток Климаш protok Klimasch ) is a 1.9 km wide strait in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It runs between Table Island and Bowler Rocks in the northwest and Morris Rock , Chaos Reef and the Aitcho Islands in the southeast.
British scientists mapped it in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the village of Klimasch in southeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Klimash passage in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)