Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Burden Passage

(Joinville Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 63° 7' 51" S 56° 34' 14" W
running NW-SE between d'Urville Island and Bransfield Island, was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in January 1947 from Trepassey on the first navigation of the passage; named after Capt. Eugene Moores Burden (1892-1979), of Carbonear, Newfoundland, Master of Trepassey, 1946-47. The passage was photo- graphed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57.