COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

El nombre fue puesto por lo primeros foqueros americanos, debido a los fuertes soplos de vientos experimentados en este angosto paso. Paso situado en el lado SE de la isla Decepción, que forma la entrada a bahía Foster en las islas Shetland del Sur. Es un paso estrecho que mide 3 cables de ancho, está obstruido por bajos fondos y por la roca Ravn situada en su medianía. Su costa N es acantilada y se alza en forma de una pared vertical hasta una altura de 90 a 140 metros.

between Fildes Point and Entrance Point, Deception Island (q.v.), forming narrow entrance to Port Foster. "The entrance is by the Americans called Neptune's Billow's [presumably in error for Neptune's Bellows] owing to the gusts that blow in and out as if they came through a trumpet or funnell [sic]..." (Fildes, 1821c). Dragons Mouth, so called after the sealing ship Dragon (Capt. A. McFarlane, McFarlane Strait, q.v.), from Liverpool, which visited the South Shetland Islands, 1820-21 (Davis, 1821-22, 30 December 1821). Neptuns Billov, Neptuns Woge [translations of English name] (Fildes, 1827, p.456). Neptune's Bellows (Fildes, 1829; BA chart 3205, 31.x.1921; 1948, photograph facing p.164). Passe du Challenger, so called by FAE, 1908-10, possibly after HMS Challenger of the British Challenger Expedition, 1872-76 (Charcot, 1912, Pl.1). Neptuns Bµlg [translation of English name] (HA chart, 1928). Challenge Passage, Challenger Passage (Yoder, 1929, map p.217 and p.219). Challenger Pass (Bagshawe, 1939, p.3). Neptunes Bellows (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942; BA, 1954, p.3; APC, 1955, p.16; DCS (Misc.) 217, 1955; DOS 310 Deception Island sheet, 1960). Bellows (USHO, 1943, p.103; BA, 1950, p.5). Caleta Balleneros, in error (Whalers Bay, q.v.) (Mann Fischer, 1948, maps facing p.316). Feullas [sic] de Neptuno [translation of English name] (Castellanos, 1951, p.50). Fuelles de Neptuno (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.225; Pierrou, 1970, p.378; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.131). The Bellows (Mott, 1958a, p.416). Fuelle de Neptuno (Frenguelli and Orlando, 1958, Fig.3). Hell's Gates, in error (Hell Gates, q.v.) (Hardy, 1967, photograph facing p.352). Neptune Bellows, as rejected form (Pierrou, 1970, p.546).

Channel on the SE side of Deception Island forming the entrance to Port Foster, in the South Shetland Islands. The name was appended by American sealers prior to 1822 because of the strong gusts experienced in this narrow channel.