Mudge passage
Mudge passage | ||
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Connects waters | Pendleton Strait | |
with water | Holtedahl Bay | |
Separates land mass | Beer Island and Dodman Island | |
of land mass | Saffery Islands and Trump Islands | |
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Geographical location | 66 ° 1 '59 " S , 65 ° 49' 59" W | |
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The Mudge Passage is a strait off the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It runs in an east-west orientation from the area around Prospect Point between Beer Island and Dodman Island in the north and the Saffery Islands and Trump Islands in the south to Extension Reef . It connects Pendleton Strait with Holtedahl Bay .
This sea route was passed through and charted in January 1979 by Captain Christopher Robert Elliott (* 1945) with the RRS John Biscoe . The UK Antarctic Place Names Committee named them in 1988 based on the names of the Harrison Passage and the Maskelyne Passage after the British watchmaker Thomas Mudge (1715-1794), who was instrumental in the technical improvement of chronometers for seafaring.
Web links
- Mudge Passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mudge Passage on geographic.org (English)