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Haskell Strait (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Haskell Strait (The name as it would appear on a map)
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This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Tidal flow south-west and north-east, between Cape Armitage on Ross Island at north and Cape Spencer-Smith on White Island at south, lying under the permanent McMurdo Ice Shelf. Williams Airfield and Pegasus Airfield are located above the ice. New name for a feature not named. Named after Dr Timothy G Haskell, a well regarded and leading New Zealand scientist in the field of oceanography and active in the New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme, with an association spanning 30 years since his first visit in 1978.
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