Barlas Canal
| Barlas Canal | ||
|---|---|---|
| Connects waters | The gullet | |
| with water | Laubeuf Fjord | |
| Separates land mass | Day island | |
| of land mass | Adelaide Island | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 67 ° 14 ′ S , 67 ° 47 ′ W | |
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| length | 13 km | |
| Smallest width | 3 km | |
The Barlas Channel is a strait between Day Island and Adelaide Island off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It extends from The Gullet strait in a south-westerly direction to the northern section of the Laubeuf Fjord .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out a rough survey in 1936. A new survey was carried out in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , which named it after William Barlas (1888–1941), representative of the United Kingdom on Deception Island and the rest of the South Shetland Islands (1914–1915) and on various occasions on South Georgia (1928–1941). 1941).
Web links
- Barlas Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barlas Channel on geographic.org (English)