Lenie passage
| Lenie passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Southern ocean | |
| with water | Southern ocean | |
| Separates land mass | Gossler Islands | |
| of land mass | Joubin Islands | |
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| Geographical location | 64 ° 44 ′ 46 ″ S , 64 ° 20 ′ 21 ″ W | |
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| Smallest width | 1.5 km | |
The Lenie Passage is a 1.5 km wide strait in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It runs in a north-west-south-east orientation between the Gossler and Joubin Islands .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1975 after Pieter J. Lenie, captain on the research vessel RV Hero of the National Science Foundation from 1972 to 1974, who was probably the first to navigate this strait between January and February 1973 and survey it with a depth sounder.
Web links
- Lenie Passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lenie Passage on geographic.org (English)