- Maskelyne Passage
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Maskelyne Passage (65°50′S 65°24′W / 65.833°S 65.4°W) is a passage between Larrouy and Tadpole Islands to the east and Cat Island, Runnelstone Rock and Hummock Island to the west, off the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811), English Astronomer Royal, 1757–1811, who started the Nautical Almanac in 1767.
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