Mudge passage

Mudge passage
Connects waters	Pendleton Strait
with water	Holtedahl Bay
Separates land mass	Beer Island and Dodman Island
of land mass	Saffery Islands and Trump Islands
	Data
Geographical location	66 ° 1 '59 " S , 65 ° 49' 59" W Coordinates: 66 ° 1 '59 " S , 65 ° 49' 59" W

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.

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