Sealers Passage (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Sealers Passage (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Passage
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
running E-W between Seal Islands (q.v.) and Cape Yelcho, NW Elephant Island, was roughly charted by sealers in the 1820s and used as a short cut around the N coast of Elephant Island; following survey by JSEEI in December 1970, named for the early sealers (DOS 610 sheet W6154 (Ext.), 1-GSGS 1972; APC, 1974, p.6). Pasaje Foqueros [translation of English name] (Argentina. MM chart H-710, 1977).
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