Villalón passage

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Villalón passage
Connects waters Drake Street
with water English Strait
Separates land mass Barrientos Island ( Aitcho Islands , South Shetland Islands )
of land mass Dee Island and Sierra Island (South Shetland Islands)
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Geographical location 62 ° 24 ′ 48 ″  S , 59 ° 46 ′ 12 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 24 ′ 48 ″  S , 59 ° 46 ′ 12 ″  W
Villalón Passage (South Shetland Islands)
Villalón passage

The Villalón Passage ( Spanish Paso Villalón , English Villalon Passage ) is a narrow strait in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It runs between Barrientos Island in the north and Dee Island and Sierra Island in the south.

Chilean scientists named them in 1998 after Luis Pardo Villalón (1882-1935), captain of the steamship Yelcho , with which the 22 participants in the endurance expedition (1914-1917) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton who were stranded on Elephant Island were rescued.

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