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Narrows, The (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
The Narrows (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Channel
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 from Bigourdan Fjord to Bourgeois Fjord and separating Pourquoi Pas Island from Blaiklock Island, Loubet Coast, were seen from the air by BGLE, 31 March 1936, and surveyed from the ground, 4 August 1936; named descriptively (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.432; BA chart 3571, 12.ix.1952; DCS 601 sheet 67 66, 1954; APC, 1955, p.15). Las Angosturas [translation of English name] (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947). The feature was resurveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1948-50. La Angostura (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.196). Paso La Angostura (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.173). Paso Las Angosturas, as rejected form (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.173).
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