McFarlane Strait

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Location of McFarlane Strait in the South Shetland Islands
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McFarlane Strait from Huron Glacier, Livingston Island with Half Moon Island and Greenwich Island in the background
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Fragment of George Powell's 1822 chart of the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands featuring McFarlane Strait
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Topographic map of McFarlane Strait

McFarlane Strait is a strait lying between Greenwich Island and Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands off Antarctica. It is Script error: No such module "convert". long and Script error: No such module "convert". wide. The name appears on an 1822 chart by Captain George Powell, a British sealer, and is now well established in international usage.[1]

Location

The strait is centred at (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".), and entered between Williams Point and Duff Point to the northwest and between Renier Point and Ephraim Bluff to the southeast[2] (British mapping in 1822 and 1968, Chilean mapping in 1971, Argentine mapping in 1980, Spanish mapping in 1991, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

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See also

References

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  2. McFarlane Strait. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

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