Nimrod Passage
| Nimrod Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Southern ocean | |
| with water | Lemaire Channel | |
| Separates land mass | Wauwerman's Islands | |
| of land mass | Dannebrog Islands | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 64 ° 58 '59 " S , 63 ° 57' 58" W | |
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The Nimrod Passage is a strait in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It leads between the Wauwermans Islands in the north and the Dannebrog Islands in the south to the northern end of the Lemaire Channel .
The Royal Navy's hydrographic surveying unit first sailed this strait between March and April 1964 with the research vessel RRS John Biscoe . It is named after the Nimrod motorboat , which was used for the depth plumbing .
Web links
- Nimrod Passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nimrod Passage on geographic.org (English)