Forsters Passage ( es, Pasaje Forster) () is a body of water between
Bristol Island
Bristol Island ( es, Isla Blanco or ''Isla Blanca'') is an island lying midway between Montagu Island and Thule Island in the South Sandwich Islands.
Its features include Harker Point, Fryer Point, Turmoil Point, Havfruen Peak, Trulla Bluff ...
and
Southern Thule
Southern Thule is a collection of the three southernmost islands in the South Sandwich Islands: Bellingshausen, Cook, and Thule (Morrell). The island group is barren, windswept, bitterly cold, and uninhabited. It has an extensive exclusive ...
in the
South Sandwich Islands
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. In 1775, a British expedition under
James Cook gave the name "Forster's Bay", after
John R. Forster, a naturalist with the expedition, to what appeared to be a
bay in essentially this position. The "bay" was determined to be a strait by a Russian expedition under
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen (russian: Фадде́й Фадде́евич Беллинсга́узен, translit=Faddéy Faddéevich Bellinsgáuzen; – ) was a Russian naval officer, cartographer and explorer, who ultimatel ...
in 1820.
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References
Straits of Antarctica
Landforms of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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