Burden Passage (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Burden 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 NW-SE between d'Urville Island and Bransfield Island, was charted by FIDS in January 1947 from Trepassey on the first navigation of the passage; named after Capt. Eugene Moores Burden (1892-1979), of Carbonear, Newfoundland, Master of Trepassey, 1946-47 (BA chart 3205, 23.ix.1949; APC, 1955, p. 6; BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962). Estrecho Burden (Argentine. MM, 1953, p. 314; Pierrou, 1970, p. 225). The passage was photo- graphed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Paso Burden (Chile. DNH chart 1400, 1961; IHA, 1974, p. 60). Proliv Berden (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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