Brake channel
| Brake channel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Connects waters | The sound | |
| with water | Borrowman Channel | |
| Separates land mass | Bremeninsel ( Eastern Melchior Islands ) | |
| of land mass | Omega Island ( Western Melchior Islands ) | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 64 ° 19 ′ 24 ″ S , 62 ° 56 ′ 3 ″ W | |
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| length | 1 km | |
The Bremen Canal ( Alphabet Chanel in the United Kingdom ) is a 1 km long strait in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . The channel separates the group of Melchior Islands , the Bremen Island in the northwest of the southeast lying Omega Island and leads from the Strait The Sound in the southwest to Borrowman channel between the island and the Omega Etainsel in the northeast.
His discovery is linked to that of Bremen Island on February 2, 2003. Since June 11, 2004 it has borne its name based on the naming of the neighboring island.
Web links
- Bremenkanal in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alphabet Chanel in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (accessed April 29, 2019).
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 208 (English).