Skog Passage
| Skog Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Suspiros Bay | |
| with water | Admiralty Street | |
| Separates land mass | Joinville Island ( Joinville Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| of land mass | unnamed island | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 63 ° 18 ′ 12 ″ S , 56 ° 29 ′ 13 ″ W | |
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| Smallest width | 300 m | |
The Skog Passage is a strait in the Joinville Islands archipelago off the northwestern end of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 300 meters wide and runs between a previously unnamed island and the Madder Cliffs at the western end of Joinville Island . It connects Suspiros Bay with a previously unnamed section of the Admiralty Road .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the strait in 2002. It is named after Captain Peter Skog, who has navigated cruise ships in Antarctic waters since 1973 and carried out soundings of previously sparsely mapped stretches of water, which were taken into account when drawing up sea charts for the British Admiralty . In 1998, Skog was the first to sail the strait as the captain of the MS Explorer .
Web links
- Skog passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skog Passage on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Captain Peter Skog. Homepage of the namesake (English, accessed on July 23, 2018).