The Narrows (Antarctica)
| The Narrows | ||
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| Connects waters | Bourgeois Fjord | |
| with water | Bigourdan Fjord | |
| Separates land mass | Pourquoi Pas Island | |
| of land mass | Blaiklock Island | |
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| Geographical location | 67 ° 35 '34 " S , 67 ° 11' 35" W | |
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The Narrows is a narrow strait off the Fallières coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It runs between the Pourquoi Pas Island and the Blaiklock Island and connects the Bourgeois Fjord with the Bigourdan Fjord .
The canal was discovered and descriptively named by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill .
Web links
- The Narrows in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Narrows on geographic.org (English)