Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Svetlana Passage (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Svetlana 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.
Navigable passage between Oliphant Islands and Gourlay Peninsula, Signy Island, South Orkney Islands. Surveyed by FIDS 1947-50. Photographed from the air by Royal Navy 1968. Named for Svetlana Solyanik, wife of Russian scientist Gennady Solyanik who both visited Signy aboard the SS Gnevny in 1963 (APC, 2004).
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