Pendleton Street
Pendleton Street | ||
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Connects waters | Southern ocean | |
with water | Mudge passage and crystal sound | |
Separates land mass | Rabot Island | |
of land mass | Lavoisier Island | |
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Geographical location | 66 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Pendleton Strait is a strait between Rabot and Lavoisier Islands in the Biscoe Islands archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It connects the open Southern Ocean with the Mudge Passage north of Extension Reef , and south of the reef the same with the northern end of Crystal Sound .
The French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot identified it as a bay in January 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910). The Australian polar explorer John Rymill was able to clear up their actual nature on the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937). It is named after the American navigator Benjamin Pendleton (1797 - unknown), who explored this region together with his compatriot Nathaniel Palmer in 1821.
Web links
- Pendleton Strait in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pendleton Strait on geographic.org (English)