Wardle Entrance

Wardle Entrance
Connects waters	Grandidier Canal
with water	Johannessen Harbor
Separates land mass	Snodgrass Island ( Pitt Islands )
of land mass	Weller Island ( Pitt Islands )
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Geographical location	65 ° 52 ′ 59 ″ S , 66 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 65 ° 52 ′ 59 ″ S , 66 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W

Wardle Entrance is a strait in the Pitt Islands group in the West Antarctic Biscoe Islands archipelago . It forms the entrance from the Grandidier Canal to Johannessen Harbor and separates Snodgrass Island from Weller Island .

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them using aerial photographs from Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after Mr. Wardle, a character from the serial novel The Pickwickier (1836-1837) by the British writer Charles Dickens .

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