Forsters Passage
Forsters Passage (Spanish: Pasaje Forster) (59°15′S 26°50′W / 59.250°S 26.833°WCoordinates: 59°15′S 26°50′W / 59.250°S 26.833°W) is a body of water between Bristol Island and Southern Thule in the South Sandwich Islands. In 1775, a British expedition under James Cook gave the name "Forster's Bay", after John R. Forster, a naturalist with the expedition, to what appeared to be a bay in essentially this position. The "bay" was determined to be a strait by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1820.[1]
WikiMiniAtlasReferences[]
- ^ "Forsters Passage". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-04-02.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Forsters Passage". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)
 | This South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
- Straits of Antarctica
- Landforms of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands geography stubs