Name details

Neck or Nothing Passage

Neck or Nothing Passage (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Neck or Nothing Passage  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110307

Feature type: Isthmus

Origin

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:

Narrative

running E-W between the S point of Desolation Island and an offlying island in Hero Bay, Livingston Island, was roughly charted and named by nineteenth-century sealers, who frequented Blythe Bay and who at times ran their ships to sea via this passage to escape severe gales from the E (Fildes, 1821b, chart [1]; BA chart 1774, 9.vii.1948; APC, 1955, p.15; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962). Neck-or-Nothing Passage (BA, 1916, p.392). The passage was charted by DI in 1935. Neck or Nothing (France. SHM, 1937, p.397). Pasaje Neck-or-Nothing (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.221; Pierrou, 1970, p.540).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
62° 28' 13.9" S
-62.47053°
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Longitude:
60° 20' 32.9" W
-60.34247°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
8-Sep-1953

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