Picnic passage

Picnic passage
Connects waters	Weddell Sea
with water	Admiralty Street
Separates land mass	Seymour Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica )
of land mass	Snow Hill Island (Ross Islands, West Antarctica)
	Data
Geographical location	64 ° 19 '33 " S , 56 ° 54' 9" W Coordinates: 64 ° 19 '33 " S , 56 ° 54' 9" W.
length	2.5 km
Smallest width	800 m

Picnic Passage (English for picnic -Passage in Argentina Estrecho Arguindeguy in Chile Estrecho Ripamonti and Paso Ripamonti is) a 2.5 km long and 800 m wide strait between the island of Seymour and Snow Hill Iceland off the north east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It connects the Weddell Sea with the Admiralty Road .

The first measurements of this sea route go back to participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld in 1902. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957 after the very favorable weather and ice conditions that scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey encountered here when surveying again in 1952. The namesake of the Argentine name is frigate captain Luis E. Arguindeguy of the Argentine Navy , who died on August 18, 1953 in an avalanche near Mendoza . The namesake of the Chilean names is Julio Ripamonti Barros (* 1916), architect of Chilean research bases in Antarctica .

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