McFarlane Strait

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McFarlane Strait
Map of the South Shetland Islands with the McFarlane Strait between Livingston Island and Greenwich Island (right)
Map of the South Shetland Islands with the McFarlane Strait between Livingston Island and Greenwich Island (right)
Connects waters Drake Street
with water Bransfield Street
Separates land mass Livingston Island
of land mass Greenwich Island
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Geographical location 62 ° 32 ′ 0 ″  S , 59 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 32 ′ 0 ″  S , 59 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  W
McFarlane Strait (South Shetland Islands)
McFarlane Strait
Smallest width 6 km

The McFarlane Strait is a strait between the Livingston Island and Greenwich Iceland in Archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . Your entrance in the northwest is between Williams Point and Duff Point , the one in the southeast between Renier Point and Ephraim Bluff .

The name of this waterway appears for the first time in 1822 on a map of the British sealer captain George Powell (1794-1824). It is named after the Glasgow captain Andrew McFarlane (1780 - unknown), who, like Powell, is one of the early seal hunters in the waters around the South Shetland Islands.

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