Papasov Passage
| Papasov Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Southern ocean | |
| with water | Lewis Sound | |
| Separates land mass | Krogh Island ( Biscoe Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| of land mass | DuBois Island , Biscoe Islands, West Antarctica | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 66 ° 15 ′ 15 ″ S , 67 ° 8 ′ 10 ″ W | |
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| length | 4.5 km | |
| Smallest width | 1 km | |
| Islands | Bona Mansio Island , St. Christopher Island | |
The Papasow Passage ( Bulgarian Папазов проток Papasow protok ) is a 4.5 km long and 1 km wide strait in the Biscoe Islands archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It separates Krogh Island in the east from DuBois Island in the west. In the eastern section of the strait, which runs from Lewis Sound in the south to the open Southern Ocean west of Lavoisier Island , are Bona Mansio Island and St. Christopher Island .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographic Names named them in 2020 after the Bulgarian oceanographer Dontscho Papasow (* 1939), who in 1988 managed to sail around the Antarctic continent in 164 days in the corridor of the Roaring Forties .
Web links
- Papazov passage in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)