Hell Gates

Location of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Hell Gates (62°40′20.3″S 61°10′46.4″W / 62.672306°S 61.179556°W / -62.672306; -61.179556Coordinates: 62°40′20.3″S 61°10′46.4″W / 62.672306°S 61.179556°W / -62.672306; -61.179556) is a narrow (20 m wide) boat passage between the Vardim Rocks and Devils Point on Byers Peninsula, connecting Raskuporis Cove and Osogovo Bay at the southwest end of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The name dates back to about 1821 and was applied by early sealers in the area because many lives and ships were lost here.^[1]

Maps

Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
L.L. Ivanov et al., Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map, Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

↑ "Hell Gates". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-06-09.

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South Shetland Islands

Major	Clarence Deception Elephant Greenwich King George Livingston Low Nelson Robert Smith Snow

Minor	Aitcho Barrientos Bilyana Cecilia Emeline Jorge Kilifarevo Pasarel Riksa Araguez Astor Barlow Basso Beslen Boatin Borceguí Bridgeman Chiprovtsi Cornwall Cornwallis Craggy Dee Desolation Dinea Dufayel Dunbar Aspis Balsha Melyane Pogledets Zavala Eadie Express Gibbs Glumche Gnomon González Half Moon Heywood Kabile Låvebrua Meade Cave Pisanitsa Zverino Miladinovi Montufar Ongley Onogur Churicheni Grod Kovach Leeve Oescus Osenovlag Redina Svetulka Vilare Penguin Pordim Prisad Prosechen Pyramid Rogozen Romeo Rowett Rugged San Telmo Seal Sierra Square End Stoker Sugarloaf Table Tatul Tirizis Toledo Treklyano Valchedram Window Withem Wood Zebil Zed Esperanto Koshava Lesidren Phanagoria

Rocks, stacks, reefs spits and banks	Aim Rocks Alepu Avren Belchin Bizone Bonert Borceguí Bowler Buchino Caraquet Chabrier Channel Chaos Chapman Cheshire Cone Cove Cutler Dlagnya Dovizio Eddystone Eliza Emm Enchantress Folger Frederick Galiche Goritsa Grace Graovo Growler Hauken Henfield Hetty Hole Holmes Ibar Indian Keep Knight Koynare Letelier Liberty Lientur Limit Livonia Long Low Lynx Lyutibrod Maglizh Makresh Martello Tower Meldia Mellona Milev Mónica Morris Nancy Napier Nikudin Okol Opaka Ørnen Orsoya Parry Patch Passage Patresh Perivol Pig Potmess Asses Ears Priboy Rabisha Raquelia Reyes Rongel Rosales Rusokastro Salient Sally Sewing-Machine Needles Shearer Simpson Sinbad Skrino Stackpole Stewart Suhache Syrezol Telefon Telish Tenorio The Pointers Tooth Tu Turmoil Tvarditsa Twin Pinnacles Two Summit Upton Vardim Vergilov Vidal Vietor Vodoley Voluyak Weeks

Straits	Boyd English Fildes Glogovo Hell Gates Iglika Izgrev Klimash McFarlane Morton Mugla Neck or Nothing Nelson Orión Osmar Smolensk Villalón

Undersea and subglacial features	Bransfield Trough Macheret Trench Orca Seamount Quiroga Ridge South Shetland Trough Vergilov Ridge Wordie Seamount

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