Pampas passage
| Pampas passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Gerlache Street | |
| with water | Gerlache Street | |
| Separates land mass | Brabant Island | |
| of land mass | Lecointe Island and Pampa Island | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 64 ° 17 ′ 59 ″ S , 62 ° 9 ′ 6 ″ W | |
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The Pampa Passage ( Freud Passage in the United Kingdom ) is a strait in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located on the east side of the Brabant Island and separates it in a northeast-southwest orientation from Lecointe Island and Pampa Island .
Scientists from an Argentine Antarctic expedition that ran from 1947 to 1948 gave it the name Bahía Pampa , named after their research vessel Pampa . This name was adapted to the actual nature of the water in 1965. The name given by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 was named after the Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).
Web links
- Pampa Passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pampa Passage on geographic.org (English)