Antarctic Sound

Antarctic Sound
Map of the Joinville Islands; Antarctic Sound separates these islands (3,4,5) from the Antarctic. Peninsula (1)
Connects waters	Weddell Sea
with water	Bransfield Street
Separates land mass	Joinville Islands
of land mass	Antarctic Peninsula
Data
Geographical location	63 ° 20 ′  S , 56 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 63 ° 20 ′  S , 56 ° 45 ′  W
length	48 km
Smallest width	11 km

The Antarctic Sound ( English Antarctic Sound ) is a body of water that is about 48 kilometers long and between 11 and 19 kilometers wide. It separates the group of Joinville Islands from the northeastern end of the Antarctic Peninsula .

The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld after the expedition ship, the Antarctic , which was the first ship that passed through it.

Web links

• Antarctic Sound at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)

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Straits along the coast of Graham Land