Alert Channel
| Alert Channel | ||
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| Connects waters | Stromness Bay | |
| with water | Husvik Harbor | |
| Separates land mass | Bar rocks | |
| of land mass | South Georgia | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 54 ° 10 ′ 48 ″ S , 36 ° 41 ′ 57 ″ W | |
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The Alert Channel is a small strait on the north coast of South Georgia . In Stromness Bay , it leads between the Whaler Channel and Bar Rocks to the head end of Husvik Harbor .
Scientists from the UK Discovery Investigations mapped the waterway in 1928 and named it after the motorboat Alert they used for survey work.
Web links
- Alert Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Alert Channel on geographic.org (English)