Neck or Nothing Passage
| Neck or Nothing Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Blythe Bay | |
| with water | Hero Bay | |
| Separates land mass | Desolation Iceland | |
| of land mass | nameless archipelago | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 62 ° 28 '14 " S , 60 ° 20' 33" W | |
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The Neck or Nothing Passage (English for all or nothing passage ) is a strait in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It runs between Desolation Island in the north and a previously unnamed group of islands 300 m to the south. The sea route connects Blythe Bay in the east with the western part of Hero Bay off the north coast of Livingston Island .
The name of the passage , which has been established since at least 1930, probably goes back to whalers who took this sea route to safety from the strong easterly winds in Blythe Bay.
Web links
- Neck or Nothing Passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Neck or Nothing Passage on geographic.org (English)