Paso Guesalaga
| Paso Guesalaga | ||
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| Connects waters | Drake Street | |
| with water | Bransfield Street | |
| Separates land mass | King George Island | |
| of land mass | Simpson Rocks | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 61 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ S , 57 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Paso Guesalaga ( Spanish ) is a strait in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It runs between the east coast of King George Island and the offshore Simpson Rocks .
Chilean scientists named it in 1947 after Federico Guesalaga Toro, head of the First Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1946–1947).
Web links
- Guesalaga, Paso in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)