Johnston Passage

Johnston Passage is a channel in Antarctica, running north–south and separating the from the southwestern part of . It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Captain William Johnston, from 1956 to 1962 Master of RRS John Biscoe, the ship which assisted the Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit in charting this area in 1963.
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Latitude
-67.633° or 67° 37′ 59″ south
Longitude
-69.35° or 69° 21′ west
Open location code
374G9M82+R2
Geo­Names ID
6635732
Wiki­data ID
Q2783223

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Johnston Passage” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Johnston (agianan)”
  • Cebuano: “Johnston”
  • Chinese: “約翰斯頓海峽”
  • German: “Johnston-Passage”
  • Hebrew: “מעבר ג’ונסטון”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Johnston Passage”
  • Spanish: “Johnston, pasaje”
  • Swedish: “Johnston (strömfåra)”
  • Swedish: “Johnston Passage”

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