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Haskell Strait, Antarctica
Haskell Strait refers to the ocean passage in southern McMurdo Sound, running between Cape Armitage, Ross Island and Cape Spencer-Smith, White Island, Antarctica.〔http://www.linz.govt.nz/placenames/consultation-decisions/a-to-z/haskell-strait〕 Oceanographically, it separates McMurdo Sound from the ocean basin (ice shelf cavity) beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. The Strait itself is around 25 km wide and in places over 900 m deep.〔Haskell Strait, The Last Great Strait? Antarctic, 28, 10-11.〕 Currents of nearly half a knot have been measured in the Strait, although typical flows are lower.〔Robinson, N. J., M. J. M. Williams, P. J. Barrett, and A. R. Pyne (2010), Observations of flow and ice-ocean interaction beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res., 115, C03025, doi:10.1029/2008JC005255〕 It is mostly covered by the ice of the McMurdo Ice Shelf and fast ice in southern McMurdo Sound. On rare occasions sea-ice breakout exposes the north-west corner of the Strait which becomes navigable and vessels can actually moor off Scott Base.
==Name==
It is named after the New Zealand polar scientist Dr Timothy G. Haskell in 2009. It is unclear why it was not named previously as a strait. Possibly, this was because it is typically ice-covered and is dominated by the barrier (the McMurdo Ice Shelf). However, it dwarfs the other named ice-covered straits in the area - for example Moraine and White Straits which separate Minna Bluff from Black Island and White from Black Islands, respectively.
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