Sealers passage

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Sealers passage
Connects waters Drake Street
with water Drake Street
Separates land mass Elephant Island
of land mass Seal Islands
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Geographical location 61 ° 1 ′ 20 ″  S , 55 ° 22 ′ 49 ″  W Coordinates: 61 ° 1 ′ 20 ″  S , 55 ° 22 ′ 49 ″  W
Sealers Passage (South Shetland Islands)
Sealers passage
Map of Elephant Island and the Seal Islands, the Sealers Passage is not listed here by name
Map of Elephant Island and the Seal Islands, the Sealers Passage is not listed here by name

The Sealers Passage (English for seal catcher passage , Spanish Pasaje Foqueros ) is a strait in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It runs between Cape Yelcho on the north coast of Elephant Island and the Seal Islands .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the strait that way in 1971 because it was used by sealers as an abbreviation for bypassing the north coast of Elephant Island in the 1820s.

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