Svetlana Passage

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Svetlana Passage
Connects waters Orwell Bight
with water For Seal Cove
Separates land mass Oliphant Islands ( South Orkney Islands )
of land mass Signy Island (South Orkney Islands)
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Geographical location 60 ° 43 '55 "  S , 45 ° 35' 20"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 43 '55 "  S , 45 ° 35' 20"  W.
Swetlana Passage (South Orkney Islands)
Svetlana Passage

The Swetlana Passage ( English Svetlana Passage ) is a navigable strait in the archipelago of the Southern Orkney Islands . It separates the Oliphant Islands from the Gourlay Peninsula from Signy Island . It allows access from Orwell Bight to Fur Seal Cove .

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey took from 1947 to 1950 surveys before. Aerial photographs were taken in 1968 by the Royal Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the strait in 2004 after Svetlana Soljanik (* 1936), wife of the Soviet fisheries scientist Gennadi Soljanik, who visited Signy Island on board the SS Grewny in 1963  .

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