Muskeg Gap is a low isthmus at the north end of Sobral Peninsula

Sobral Peninsula

Sobral Peninsula is a high and mainly ice-covered peninsula projecting from Nordenskjöld Coast in northern Graham Land, Antarctica. The feature is 11 nautical miles long and 5 nautical miles wide and projects southward into the northern part of Larsen Ice Shelf west of Larsen Inlet...

, Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

. The gap provides a coastal route which avoids a long detour around Sobral Peninsula Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960–61). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after the Canadian "Muskeg" tractor.