McFarlane Strait is a strait lying between Greenwich Island and Livingston Island , in the South Shetland Islands off Antarctica. It is 24 kilometres (13 nmi) long and 3 kilometres (1.6 nmi) wide. The name appears on an 1822 chart by Captain George Powell , a British sealer, and is now well established in international usage.
3-656: The strait is centred at ( 62°32′S 59°55′W / 62.533°S 59.917°W / -62.533; -59.917 ), and entered between Williams Point and Duff Point to the northwest and between Renier Point and Ephraim Bluff to the southeast (British mapping in 1822 and 1968, Chilean mapping in 1971, Argentine mapping in 1980, Spanish mapping in 1991, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009). [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "McFarlane Strait" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . This South Shetland Islands location article
6-552: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Williams Point Williams Point is the point forming both the north extremity of Varna Peninsula and the northeast tip of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands , Antarctica . Separated from Zed Islands to the north by Iglika Passage . The discovery of the South Shetland Islands was first reported in 1819 by William Smith , Master of
9-435: The brig Williams who had sighted the point on 19 February that year. An 1820 publication suggests that Smith gave the name ‘Williams’ to a point of land in this vicinity. In recent years the place name Williams Point has been established in international usage for the point described. The point is located at 62°27′08″S 60°08′11″W / 62.45222°S 60.13639°W / -62.45222; -60.13639 which
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