McFarlane Strait is a strait lying between Greenwich Island and Livingston Island , in the South Shetland Islands off Antarctica. It is 24 kilometres (13 nmi) long and 3 kilometres (1.6 nmi) wide. The name appears on an 1822 chart by Captain George Powell , a British sealer, and is now well established in international usage.
3-525: Rugged Rocks ( 62°37′S 59°48′W / 62.617°S 59.800°W / -62.617; -59.800 ) is a small group of rocks at the west side of the south entrance to McFarlane Strait , lying just north of Renier Point , Burgas Peninsula on Livingston Island , in the South Shetland Islands . These rocks were known to early sealers in the area and appear on Powell's map of 1822. They were recharted in 1935 by DI personnel on
6-646: Is centred at ( 62°32′S 59°55′W / 62.533°S 59.917°W / -62.533; -59.917 ), and entered between Williams Point and Duff Point to the northwest and between Renier Point and Ephraim Bluff to the southeast (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). [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "McFarlane Strait" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . This South Shetland Islands location article
9-460: The Discovery II and given this descriptive name. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "Rugged Rocks" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . [REDACTED] This Livingston Island location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . McFarlane Strait The strait
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