Knowles Passage

Knowles Passage
Connects waters	Vincennes Bay
with water	Vincennes Bay
Separates land mass	Holl Island
of land mass	Peterson Island
Data
Geographical location	66 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  S , 110 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 66 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  S , 110 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  E
Map of the southern Windmill Islands with Knowles Passage

The Knowles Passage is a strait in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the Budd Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . It runs between Holl Island and Peterson Island .

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 1962 after Lieutenant Lloyd C. Knowles of the United States Navy , engineer on the icebreaker USS Burton Island and in January 1948 involved in surveying and taking aerial photographs of the Windmill Islands.

Web links

• Knowles passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Knowles Passage on geographic.org (English)
• Map of the Windmill Islands (PDF, March 2009) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)