Southwind Passage
| Southwind Passage | ||
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| Connects waters | Southern ocean | |
| with water | Grandidier Canal | |
| Separates land mass | Betbeder Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| of land mass | Dickens Rocks , Biscoe Islands | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 65 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Southwind Passage is a navigable strait off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It separates the Betbeder Islands in the southern Wilhelm Archipelago from the north to the Biscoe Islands belonging Dickens Rocks .
Sumner Raymond Dolber (1924-2015), captain of the United States Coast Guard , named it after the icebreaker USCGC Southwind , with which he sailed the passage in the summer months between 1967 and 1968.
Web links
- Southwind Passage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Southwind Passage on geographic.org